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Regional natural resource management (NRM) body 2001 wetland system extents

Definition of regional natural resource management (NRM) body

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

Display areas in
2001 wetland system extent by regional natural resource management (NRM) body metadata
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Regional NRM body Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
artificial and highly modified intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (slightly modified) lacustrine (natural) lacustrine (slightly modified) palustrine (natural) palustrine (slightly modified) riverine
Total 175,939,321 275,136 1,167,839 3,946 515,123 35,830 2,889,193 78,577 2,512,971 7,478,617
Burnett Mary Regional Group 5,576,770 24,423 41,303 20 2,862 1,869 55,227 1,037 72,846 199,587
Cape York Natural Resource Management 13,652,054 1,868 240,791 6,102 349 312,200 307 157,109 718,727
Desert Channels Group 51,026,696 6,787 444,613 3,212 1,594,377 1,328 656,753 2,707,070
Fitzroy Basin Association 15,676,198 51,633 153,447 994 6,827 9,830 44,330 41,807 170,686 479,554
Gulf Savannah NRM 19,406,284 4,223 173,923 2,306 4,813 243,006 926 463,887 893,085
Healthy Land and Water 2,355,270 30,918 23,030 285 743 1,507 55,018 2,030 33,901 147,433
NQ Dry Tropics 14,087,421 46,456 66,888 2,371 5,488 5,611 56,975 15,637 343,345 542,771
Reef Catchments 933,525 8,644 46,599 83 15 107 15,951 3,355 13,906 88,659
Southern Gulf NRM 19,479,544 8,895 346,177 2,199 3,489 119,924 1,364 406,154 888,202
Southern Queensland Landscapes 31,436,051 81,270 43,705 4,749 353,257 9,295 154,058 646,333
Terrain NRM 2,222,960 9,928 48,970 195 261 292 38,154 1,491 39,659 138,950
Torres Strait Regional Authority 86,547 92 26,711 2 774 667 28,245

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of regional natural resource management (NRM) bodies.

Disclaimer

Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation
(e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).

All statistics are approximate and generated based on data transformed to a customised Albers equal-area projection, thus allowing wetland extent change for different regions of Queensland to be comparable.

Areas may change over time as mapping approaches improve.

Totals may not match the sum of individually displayed figures due to the rounding of displayed figures.


This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Regional natural resource management (NRM) body 2001 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2001/nrm.html

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