The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Estate database details areas reserved under the NP&W Act 1974. It includes National Parks, Nature Reserves, Regional Parks, State Conservation Areas, Aboriginal Areas, Historic Sites, and Karst Conservation Reserves. The dataset is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and was last updated on April 27, 2026.
Use Cases
- Mapping the spatial distribution of protected areas based on the listed reserve types.
- Analyzing conservation estate composition based on categories like National Parks and State Conservation Areas.
- Planning ecological corridors based on the geospatial boundaries of Nature Reserves and Regional Parks.
- Assessing cultural heritage site coverage based on the inclusion of Aboriginal Areas and Historic Sites.
Strengths
- Covers seven distinct types of protected areas as specified in the description.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
- Offered in multiple geospatial and document formats including KML, WMS, WFS, and XLSX.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
- Collection Method
- Administrative database of areas reserved under legislation.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-27 05:45:34.301265; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- New South Wales, Australia