Pastoral land

Pastoral leases are leases over Crown land which gives the lessee the right to graze authorised livestock on the natural vegetation.

Pastoral lessees seeking to carry out any other activity on the lease other than the primary pastoral use of grazing native vegetation with authorised stock.

Looking after the rangelands is integral to pastoral land management and pastoral lessees are obliged to sustainably manage the rangelands in a way that promotes pastoral potential.

The Pastoral Lands Board is a statutory authority established under Section 94 of the Land Administration Act 1997 (WA). The board has joint responsibility with the Minister for Lands for administering Western Australian pastoral leases in accordance with Part 7 of this Act.