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
 

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Identifiers and Keywords

ANZLIC Id
ANZVI0803008620 
Victorian Spatial Data Library (VSDL) Schema
FORESTS:IMMEDIATE_PROTECTION_AREAS 
Jurisdiction
Victoria 
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)
 

Other Dataset Details

Date ( Revision )
2020-02-13
Date ( Publication )
2019-12-07T01:05:49
Status
Completed  
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 
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed  
Maintenance date ( Publication )
2019-12-07T01:05:49
 

Spatial

Spatial representation type
Vector  
Description
General - Victoria 
Reference system identifier
4283

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Temporal

Begin date
2019-11-21 
End date
2019-11-21 
 

Quality

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

Lineage

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

Attributes

Column Name Obligation Unique Data Type Data Length Data Precision Data Scale Reference Table Owner Reference Table Name Reference Table Code Column Name Short Column Name Definition
LOCATION O N VARCHAR2 30 LOCATION
NAME_IPA O N VARCHAR2 50 NAME_IPA
HECTARES O N NUMBER 22 38 8 HECTARES
 

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Metadata identifier
urn:uuid / 6ff1225f-28e6-5c9f-ad68-30110c645a6f

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Date info ( Creation )
2025-11-25T12:06:17
Date info ( Revision )
2025-11-25T14:31:46
Standard Name
ISO 19115-3:2018 
Profile Name
DELWP Profile 
Profile Version
Version 1 
Profile Date
2019-05-24  
 

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Unclassified  
 
 

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