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Regional natural resource management (NRM) body 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of regional natural resource management (NRM) body

based on wetland mapping version 6.0 metadata

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2019 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 175,939,321 313,825 1,166,714 4,194 515,111 37,759 2,883,004 80,720 2,499,345 7,500,673
Burnett Mary Regional Group 5,576,770 28,485 41,246 17 2,862 1,908 54,668 1,100 71,184 201,469
Cape York Natural Resource Management 13,652,054 3,144 240,803 6,103 359 312,133 307 157,248 720,096
Desert Channels Group 51,026,696 7,948 444,601 3,239 1,594,204 1,370 655,835 2,707,198
Fitzroy Basin Association 15,676,198 64,460 152,792 995 6,826 11,056 42,907 41,912 168,725 489,672
Gulf Savannah NRM 19,406,284 5,604 173,916 2,306 4,817 242,596 973 460,086 890,297
Healthy Land and Water 2,355,270 32,175 22,893 545 743 1,881 54,167 2,698 33,504 148,605
NQ Dry Tropics 14,087,421 51,160 66,594 2,363 5,488 5,831 56,726 15,883 341,628 545,672
Reef Catchments 933,525 9,704 46,624 84 15 128 15,559 3,356 13,594 89,064
Southern Gulf NRM 19,479,544 11,131 346,177 2,199 3,438 119,860 1,375 405,781 889,961
Southern Queensland Landscapes 31,436,051 89,866 43,705 4,798 351,623 10,226 151,479 651,697
Terrain NRM 2,222,960 10,058 48,966 191 261 304 37,786 1,520 39,617 138,703
Torres Strait Regional Authority 86,547 92 26,704 2 774 667 28,239

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 2019 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent/nrm.html

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