Identifying protected high-conservation water assets
What are the key environmental assets for each system?
AWR 2005 identifies rivers, wetlands, and catchments that are protected by
relevant legislation. Relevant legislation is that which is designed to preserve
an area's ‘naturalness' and aquatic ecosystem values. This is an initial step
towards providing a national picture of systems of high conservation value
that require consideration for National Water Initiative (NWI) implementation.
Key environmental assets that have been afforded relevant legislative protection
have been identified and mapped. These assets are primarily wetlands, rivers,
river catchments and protected terrestrial areas (for example national parks
and other types of protected land use zones).
These data were also analysed and aggregated into tables and maps, with the
aim of showing their number, type, distribution and extent. There two map categories
provided:
- protected wetlands, rivers and catchments
- terrestrial protected areas such as national parks and state
recreation areas
Both categories contain one national map and a map for each state and territory
(nine in total).
More information and links to
the maps can be found at:
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