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

Definition of regional natural resource management (NRM) body

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2019 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 3,780 497,655 621,448 460,743 26,863 8,447 156 7,554 998 1,172 79,926 106,229 1,375,770 83,022 158,897 144,523 203,905 3,044 37 291,556 12,984 159,209 10,576 125,953 187,954 15,977 45 3,462 960 747 4,593,591
Burnett Mary Regional Group 5,576,770 1,300 28,175 11,892 13 2,106 760 14,872 4,177 9,197 515 19,179 1,730 5,950 99,866
Cape York Natural Resource Management 13,652,054 145,048 108,013 4,940 155,597 262 94,179 11,531 48,587 3,972 12 2 572,144
Desert Channels Group 51,026,696 421,316 20,840 62,520 41,763 1,307,804 37,772 4,217 68,340 71,024 2 11 2,035,608
Fitzroy Basin Association 15,676,198 29 70,793 39,154 6,983 55 11,232 1,426 7,628 4,478 24,551 35,958 202,288
Gulf Savannah NRM 19,406,284 39,877 147,122 129 6,045 1,566 72,041 4,197 66,151 20,915 9,594 64,083 11 12 150 395 432,289
Healthy Land and Water 2,355,270 2,452 15,791 4,906 506 239 10,506 7,117 4,263 26,446 3,186 5,267 80,678
NQ Dry Tropics 14,087,421 30,167 10,369 206 1,559 701 109 34 7,736 461 16,660 15,207 257 37 1,405 5,106 297 1,382 18,208 2 1 796 107 110,807
Reef Catchments 933,525 34,356 12,205 8,613 4,226 2,900 3,536 65,837
Southern Gulf NRM 19,479,544 66,617 278,624 771 1,007 31,942 1,362 13,511 30,616 4,175 5,613 14,105 10,581 3,887 5,981 14 468,806
Southern Queensland Landscapes 31,436,051 38,322 4,463 750 17,371 18,744 66,604 29,713 34,815 72,008 104,839 2,787 1,291 1 492 5,037 10,099 512 283 408,131
Terrain NRM 2,222,960 44,658 4,639 156 548 3,025 7,302 2,515 249 16,194 6,162 505 33 3,437 244 89,667
Torres Strait Regional Authority 86,547 22,171 4,524 2 479 106 186 27,469

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 2019 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat-2019/nrm.html

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