Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions (2012)

The Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions dataset is maintained for the purpose of reporting on the Australian Government's NRM investments. The dataset is designed to cover all Australian territory where Australian Government funded NRM projects might take place and includes major islands, external territories, and state and coastal waters in addition to the NRM regional boundaries. This 2012 version updates and formalises the 2010 dataset (which was an interim update of the NRM Regions 2009 dataset, released Feb 2009). The original base layer version of this dataset was released in 2006 as the Natural Heritage Trust II (NHT2) Region Boundaries dataset.\n\nWhilst the boundaries of NRM Regions are defined by legislation in some states and territories this dataset should not be used to represent legal boundaries in any way. It is an administrative dataset developed for the purpose of reporting and public information. It should be noted that from time to time the states and/or territories may revise their regional boundaries in accordance with local needs and therefore alterations to either the attribution or boundaries of the data may occur in the future.\n\nSince 2006, NRM regions have been important in the delivery of Australian Government funding initiatives including Caring for our Country, the Natural Heritage Trust, the National Landcare Program, the Environmental Stewardship Program and the Working on Country Indigenous land and sea ranger program. \nIn total, this dataset represents 62 regions as set out below. They comprise 55 mainland regions administered by 54 NRM regional bodies (one region in QLD is jointly administered by two adjacent regional bodies) and seven islands (five administered by the Australian Government as external territories, and two administered by nearby mainland NRM regional bodies).\n \nQueensland\n1.\tBorder Rivers Maranoa-Balonne\n2.\tBurdekin\n3.\tBurnett Mary\n4.\tCape York\n5.\tCondamine\n6.\tDesert Channels\n7.\tFitzroy\n8.\tMackay Whitsunday\n9.\tNorthern Gulf\n10.\tSouth East Queensland\n11.\tSouth West Queensland\n12.\tSouthern Gulf\n13.\tTorres Strait\n14.\tWet Tropics \n\n15.\tCooperative Management Area (administered jointly by Cape York and Northern Gulf)\n\nNSW\n1.\tBorder Rivers-Gwydir\n2.\tCentral West\n3.\tHawkesbury-Nepean\n4.\tHunter-Central Rivers\n5.\tLachlan\n6.\tMurray\n7.\tMurrumbidgee\n8.\tNamoi\n9.\tNorthern Rivers\n10.\tSouthern Rivers\n11.\tWestern\n\n12.\tLord Howe Island (administered by Northern Rivers CMA)\n\nACT\n1.\tACT\n\nVictoria\n1.\tCorangamite\n2.\tEast Gippsland\n3.\tGlenelg Hopkins\n4.\tGoulburn Broken\n5.\tMallee\n6.\tNorth Central\n7.\tNorth East\n8.\tPort Phillip and Western Port\n9.\tWest Gippsland\n10.\tWimmera\n\nTAS\n1.\tNorth\n2.\tNorth West\n3.\tSouth\n\n4.\tMacquarie Islands (administered by NRM South)\n\nSouth Australia\n1.\tAdelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges\n2.\tAlinytjara Wilurara\n3.\tEyre Peninsula\n4.\tKangaroo Island\n5.\tNorthern and Yorke\n6.\tSouth Australian Arid Lands\n7.\tSouth Australian Murray Darling Basin\n8.\tSouth East\n\nWA\n1.\tAvon\n2.\tNorthern Agricultural\n3.\tPerth\n4.\tRangelands\n5.\tSouth Coast\n6.\tSouth West\n\n\nNorthern Territory\n7.\tNorthern Territory\n\n\nExternal Territories (administered by the Australian Government)\n1.\tAshmore and Cartier Islands\n2.\tChristmas Island\n3.\tCocos Keeling Islands\n4.\tHeard and McDonald Islands\n5.\tNorfolk IslandCC - Attribution (CC BY)\nData to be available in the Public Domain under Creative Commons by Attribution Licensing Agreement. \nMore information can be found here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en\nData to be available in the Public Domain under Creative Commons by Attribution Licensing Agreement. \nMore information can be found here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en\n© Commonwealth of Australia (Department of the Environment and Energy) 2014