NSW Wild Rivers: Declared Rivers Under the NPW Act

Declared wild rivers in New South Wales under Section 61(1) of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. The dataset is published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and was last updated on 2026-05-12. It is available in PDF, ZIP, and ESRI REST formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Map legally protected river corridors based on the NPW Act declarations.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of wild rivers for conservation planning.
• Integrate protected river boundaries with other land-use datasets for environmental impact assessments.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple formats including ESRI REST for GIS integration.
• Has a clear legal basis under the NPW Act 1974.
• Published by a government environmental authority.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 23:03:32.877365; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia