Immediate Protection Areas IPA

dataset: IMMEDIATE_PROTECTION_AREAS
This layer represents polygon coverage of immediate protection areas announced under the Victorian Forestry Plan and updated on 21 November 2019. The Immediate Protection Area (IPA) responds to a new conservation measure described within the Flora and Fauna Guarantee (FFG) Action Statement for the Greater Glider and indicates areas of State Forest (including existing Special Protection Zone, Special Management Zone and General Management Zone) and other public land areas where timber harvesting operations are to be excluded.
 
Citation proposal Citation proposal

(2020)

Immediate Protection Areas IPA

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Description

Title
Immediate Protection Areas IPA 
Alternate title
IMMEDIATE_PROTECTION_AREAS 
Purpose
The intent of this layer is to provide a reference arising from the FFG Action Statement for the Greater Glider. It includes approximately 96,000 hectares of new protection area where timber harvesting is to be excluded and on the date of publication covers approximately 53,000 hectares of existing Special Protection Zones. 
Supplemental Information
Related Documents: None 
Status
Completed 
 
 

Spatial

Code
4283 
 
 

Maintenance

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed 
 
 

Contacts

  Point of contact

Cited responsible party

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Cited responsible party

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Keywords

Topic category
  • Environment
  • Biota
  • Farming
 
 

Resource Constraints

Use limitation
. The intent of this layer is to provide a reference for location of immediate protection areas to support planning of proposed timber harvesting activities 
Classification
Unclassified 
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)
 
 

Lineage

Statement
Dataset Source: Original Dataset Originality: Primary & Derived 
Description
Collection Method: Digitised from a combination of 25K and 100K features 
Description
Digitised from a combination of 25K and 100K features 
 
 

Metadata Constraints Metadata Constraints

Classification
Unclassified 
 
 

Quality

Attribute Quality
Comments
95% 
 
Positional Accuracy
Comments
Positional 50m-300m. Base features registered at 1:100000 with map errors up to 3 mm which translates to 300m on ground 
 
Conceptual Consistency
Missing Data
Comments
Eastern Victoria 
 
Excess Data
 
 


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