Illawarra Shoalhaven Regional Biodiversity Corridors 2023

Illawarra Shoalhaven regional mapping of biodiversity corridors, a sub-component of High Environmental Value land. This dataset updates previous corridor mapping to support protection and management within planning processes, published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. The data was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify priority areas for habitat connectivity based on mapped regional biodiversity corridors.
• Inform land-use planning decisions based on High Environmental Value (HEV) land designations.
• Assess and enhance ecological corridor functionality for conservation management.
• Update and validate existing regional environmental planning datasets.

Strengths

• Dataset updates previous regional corridor mapping, suggesting improved accuracy.
• Explicitly linked to the Illawarra Shoalhaven Regional Plan (DPIE 2021) for policy relevance.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and spatial scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Collection Method

Mapping as a sub-component of High Environmental Value (HEV) land.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 04:09:12.676662

Geography

Illawarra Shoalhaven region, Australia