Kangaroo Management Zones for Commercial Harvest Quotas in New South Wales

A polygon boundary layer contains 15 Kangaroo Management Zones for the commercial harvest program in western New South Wales, plus a Non Commercial Zone on the Eastern Seaboard. The dataset is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and was last updated in May 2026. Zones are used to allocate annual harvest quotas based on population estimates from monitoring.

Use Cases

• Mapping commercial kangaroo harvest zones based on the described polygon boundaries.
• Analyzing quota allocation areas based on the kangaroo management zone system.
• Studying changes in zone boundaries over time based on the 2020 modifications described.
• Calculating available harvest area based on the attribute table containing area hectares and square kilometres with NPWS Estate subtracted.

Strengths

• Contains 15 distinct Kangaroo Management Zones plus a Non Commercial Zone.
• Attribute table includes full area in hectares and square kilometres, as well as values with NPWS Estate subtracted.
• Boundary modifications from 2020 are documented, providing a clear version history.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-05-12).

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely derived from official wildlife management and land administration records.

Time Range

Current as of the 2020 boundary modifications.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 23:20:33.422989

Geography

Western part of New South Wales, Australia, with a Non Commercial Zone on the Eastern Seaboard.