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

Definition of regional natural resource management (NRM) body

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2005 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 3,547 497,725 621,980 460,744 26,863 8,447 156 7,554 998 1,172 79,946 106,454 1,375,783 83,028 159,230 144,743 204,144 3,068 37 292,053 13,075 158,888 10,732 127,261 188,344 16,104 45 3,467 960 748 4,597,298
Burnett Mary Regional Group 5,576,770 1,303 28,196 11,894 13 2,106 760 14,955 4,190 9,199 503 19,292 1,752 5,995 100,159
Cape York Natural Resource Management 13,652,054 145,039 108,017 4,940 155,675 262 94,184 11,532 48,587 3,972 12 2 572,222
Desert Channels Group 51,026,696 421,317 20,840 62,540 41,801 1,307,818 37,772 4,217 68,341 71,043 2 11 2,035,702
Fitzroy Basin Association 15,676,198 29 70,826 39,576 6,983 55 11,558 1,426 7,567 4,491 24,967 35,966 203,444
Gulf Savannah NRM 19,406,284 39,877 147,129 129 6,045 1,566 72,052 4,197 66,162 20,918 9,788 64,222 11 12 150 396 432,655
Healthy Land and Water 2,355,270 2,215 15,859 4,944 507 239 10,359 7,195 4,280 26,361 3,246 5,348 80,552
NQ Dry Tropics 14,087,421 30,183 10,400 206 1,559 701 109 34 7,880 462 16,681 15,211 258 37 1,385 4,860 300 1,360 18,224 2 1 796 107 110,755
Reef Catchments 933,525 34,298 12,236 8,732 4,183 2,968 3,536 65,953
Southern Gulf NRM 19,479,544 66,617 278,624 771 1,007 31,954 1,362 13,512 30,630 4,175 5,613 14,105 10,581 3,887 5,981 14 468,833
Southern Queensland Landscapes 31,436,051 38,322 4,463 750 17,372 18,774 66,604 29,718 35,101 72,228 105,054 2,809 1,305 1 491 5,189 10,669 585 283 409,719
Terrain NRM 2,222,960 44,652 4,637 156 548 3,025 7,337 2,517 249 16,249 6,234 505 33 3,442 244 89,829
Torres Strait Regional Authority 86,547 22,178 4,524 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 2005 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat-2005/nrm.html

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