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

Definition of regional natural resource management (NRM) body

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2001 wetland habitat extent by regional natural resource management (NRM) body metadata
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Regional NRM body Total area
(ha)		 Wetland area by habitat Total
wetland area
(ha)
INT01a INT01b INT02 LA14 LA15 LC06 LC07 LC08a LC08b LC09 PA10 PA11a PA11b PA11c PA12a PA12b PA12c PA12d PA13 PC02a PC02b PC02c PC02d PC04a PC04c PC04d PC04e PC05 XX99-P-A XX99-P-C
Total 175,939,321 3,551 497,755 622,135 460,745 26,863 8,447 156 7,554 998 1,172 79,966 106,461 1,375,793 83,078 158,887 145,065 204,364 2,506 37 292,648 12,831 158,918 10,745 128,310 188,499 16,186 45 3,470 960 749 4,598,896
Burnett Mary Regional Group 5,576,770 1,304 28,198 11,934 13 2,106 760 15,037 4,198 9,199 503 19,347 1,756 6,025 100,379
Cape York Natural Resource Management 13,652,054 145,039 108,017 4,940 155,658 262 94,181 11,534 48,587 3,972 12 2 572,203
Desert Channels Group 51,026,696 421,317 20,840 62,544 41,803 1,307,827 37,784 4,226 68,341 71,056 2 11 2,035,751
Fitzroy Basin Association 15,676,198 29 70,829 39,631 6,983 55 11,711 1,426 7,574 4,494 25,505 36,018 204,256
Gulf Savannah NRM 19,406,284 39,877 147,129 129 6,045 1,566 72,067 4,197 66,163 20,922 9,792 64,222 11 12 150 396 432,679
Healthy Land and Water 2,355,270 2,219 15,861 4,974 507 239 10,461 6,943 4,285 26,643 3,254 5,398 80,784
NQ Dry Tropics 14,087,421 30,183 10,416 206 1,559 701 109 34 7,880 462 16,696 15,213 259 37 1,386 4,873 305 1,360 18,284 1 1 796 107 110,867
Reef Catchments 933,525 34,314 12,248 8,940 4,185 2,967 3,538 66,193
Southern Gulf NRM 19,479,544 66,617 278,624 771 1,007 31,954 1,362 13,549 30,630 4,175 5,621 14,105 10,581 3,891 5,981 14 468,882
Southern Queensland Landscapes 31,436,051 38,322 4,463 750 17,388 18,779 66,604 29,718 34,721 72,549 105,253 2,248 1,305 1 491 5,194 10,712 584 283 409,366
Terrain NRM 2,222,960 44,662 4,635 156 548 3,025 7,402 2,520 249 16,372 6,263 507 33 3,445 244 90,062
Torres Strait Regional Authority 86,547 22,174 4,528 2 479 106 186 27,476

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

Wetland habitat code descriptions
INT01a Mangroves - Casuarina
INT01b Mangroves - other
INT02 Salt marsh and salt flats
LA14 Arid and semi-arid saline lake
LA15 Arid and semi-arid floodplain lake
LC06 Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain lake
LC07 Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain rock lake
LC08a Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain sand (window) lake
LC08b Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain sand (perched) lake
LC09 Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake
PA10 Arid and semi-arid saline swamp
PA11a Arid and semi-arid floodplain tree swamp
PA11b Arid and semi-arid floodplain shrub swamp
PA11c Arid and semi-arid floodplain grass, sedge and herb swamp
PA12a Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain tree swamp
PA12b Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain shrub swamp
PA12c Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain grass, sedge and herb swamp
PA12d Arid and semi-arid other non-floodplain swamp
PA13 Arid and semi-arid Great Artesian Basin fed spring swamp
PC02a Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree (Melaleuca and Eucalypt) swamp
PC02b Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain wet heath swamp
PC02c Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass, sedge, and herb swamp
PC02d Coastal and sub-coastal other non-floodplain swamp
PC04a Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree (Melaleuca and Eucalypt) swamp
PC04c Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, and herb swamp
PC04d Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain wet heath swamp
PC04e Coastal and sub-coastal other floodplain swamp
PC05 Coastal and sub-coastal tree (palm) swamp
XX99-P-A Unknown - Swamp - Arid and semi-arid
XX99-P-C Unknown - Swamp - Coastal and sub-coastal

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 habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat-2001/nrm.html

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