NPWS Estate Boundaries: Protected Areas in New South Wales

National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Estate database delineates all areas reserved under the NP&W Act 1974 in New South Wales, Australia. This geospatial dataset includes boundaries for National Parks, Nature Reserves, Regional Parks, State Conservation Areas, Aboriginal Areas, Historic Sites, and Karst Conservation Reserves. Its presence across multiple government platforms signals its importance for environmental and land-use governance.

Use Cases

• Mapping conservation zones for environmental impact assessments based on the geospatial boundaries.
• Planning recreational access and infrastructure using the delineated park and reserve categories.
• Analyzing the distribution of protected area types (e.g., Aboriginal Areas, Karst Reserves) for policy review.
• Overlaying estate boundaries with other land tenure or ecological datasets for spatial analysis.

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on data.gov.au indicates official status and reliability for government data.
• Dataset provides a specific, legislated categorization of protected area types under the NP&W Act 1974.

Limitations

• Column names and detailed schema are unknown, limiting precise understanding of attribute data.
• Metadata for size, row count, and license is consistently missing or listed as 'None' across all sources.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS), NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS)

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official surveys and legal instruments for reservation under the NP&W Act 1974.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-12 09:56:01.114692

Geography

New South Wales, Australia