NSW Wild River Catchments Under the NPW Act 1974

Catchments of declared wild rivers in New South Wales, Australia, as defined under Section 61(1) of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. The dataset is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and was last updated on May 13, 2026. It is available in PDF, ZIP, and ESRI REST formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Map protected river catchment boundaries based on the declared wild river status.
• Analyze spatial relationships between wild river catchments and other land-use features.
• Support environmental impact assessments for projects near protected waterways.
• Model hydrological processes within legally defined wild river systems.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative NSW government department responsible for the environment.
• The dataset is licensed under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.
• It was updated recently, on May 13, 2026.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total spatial extent are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and policy bias inherent to the NSW government's declaration process.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely derived from official government spatial data and legal declarations.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia