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Regional natural resource management (NRM) body 2017 wetland habitat extents

Definition of regional natural resource management (NRM) body

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2017 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 3,781 497,671 621,464 460,743 26,863 8,448 156 7,554 998 1,172 79,926 106,257 1,375,774 83,023 159,022 144,545 203,961 3,044 37 291,666 13,019 159,195 10,591 126,062 187,979 15,994 45 3,463 960 747 4,594,160
Burnett Mary Regional Group 5,576,770 1,301 28,175 11,892 13 2,106 760 14,886 4,177 9,198 515 19,197 1,730 5,951 99,900
Cape York Natural Resource Management 13,652,054 145,048 108,013 4,940 155,608 262 94,179 11,531 48,587 3,972 12 2 572,155
Desert Channels Group 51,026,696 421,316 20,840 62,520 41,763 1,307,809 37,772 4,217 68,340 71,024 2 11 2,035,613
Fitzroy Basin Association 15,676,198 29 70,793 39,159 6,984 55 11,241 1,426 7,630 4,493 24,621 35,954 202,386
Gulf Savannah NRM 19,406,284 39,877 147,126 129 6,045 1,566 72,046 4,197 66,152 20,915 9,595 64,084 11 12 150 395 432,300
Healthy Land and Water 2,355,270 2,452 15,801 4,914 506 239 10,541 7,152 4,264 26,424 3,190 5,282 80,766
NQ Dry Tropics 14,087,421 30,167 10,369 206 1,559 701 109 34 7,737 461 16,666 15,207 257 37 1,406 5,106 297 1,382 18,231 2 1 796 107 110,838
Reef Catchments 933,525 34,357 12,205 8,642 4,208 2,902 3,536 65,850
Southern Gulf NRM 19,479,544 66,617 278,624 771 1,007 31,942 1,362 13,511 30,617 4,175 5,613 14,105 10,581 3,887 5,981 14 468,807
Southern Queensland Landscapes 31,436,051 38,322 4,463 750 17,372 18,772 66,604 29,714 34,927 72,030 104,895 2,787 1,297 1 492 5,037 10,144 512 283 408,401
Terrain NRM 2,222,960 44,659 4,639 156 548 3,025 7,308 2,515 249 16,191 6,162 505 33 3,438 244 89,671
Torres Strait Regional Authority 86,547 22,175 4,524 2 479 106 186 27,473

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 2017 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat-2017/nrm.html

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