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Regional natural resource management (NRM) body 2005 wetland system extents

Definition of regional natural resource management (NRM) body

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

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2005 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 175,939,321 291,663 1,167,543 3,887 515,123 37,166 2,886,979 79,307 2,508,548 7,490,218
Burnett Mary Regional Group 5,576,770 27,441 41,265 17 2,862 1,889 55,002 1,062 71,581 201,118
Cape York Natural Resource Management 13,652,054 1,952 240,791 6,103 367 312,198 307 157,131 718,848
Desert Channels Group 51,026,696 7,328 444,613 3,215 1,594,289 1,370 656,476 2,707,292
Fitzroy Basin Association 15,676,198 56,575 153,286 952 6,827 10,879 43,664 41,755 169,873 483,810
Gulf Savannah NRM 19,406,284 4,646 173,923 2,306 4,812 242,921 928 463,871 893,407
Healthy Land and Water 2,355,270 31,218 23,007 273 743 1,641 54,843 2,010 33,765 147,500
NQ Dry Tropics 14,087,421 48,288 66,871 2,371 5,488 5,668 56,874 15,660 342,596 543,815
Reef Catchments 933,525 8,924 46,576 83 15 113 15,732 3,362 13,791 88,594
Southern Gulf NRM 19,479,544 9,831 346,177 2,199 3,494 119,875 1,374 406,107 889,058
Southern Queensland Landscapes 31,436,051 85,448 43,705 4,794 352,930 9,977 153,075 649,930
Terrain NRM 2,222,960 9,920 48,938 192 261 296 37,877 1,501 39,615 138,599
Torres Strait Regional Authority 86,547 92 26,710 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 2005 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2005/nrm.html

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