Integrated Vegetation Information for NAP and NRM Regions
NRM RegionsClick on the map to display national map and list of NRM regions or select a state or territory to display a map to select region. Australian Capital Territory Northern Territory South Australia Western Australia New South Wales Tasmania Victoria Queensland |
NAP RegionsClick on the map to display national map and list of NAP regions. |
Why do we need these maps?
Vegetation provides a number of goods and services including food, fodder and fibre production, landscape stability, capture of energy as carbon, nutrient or water cycling, and habitat for native species and ecological communities. Effective planning and use of Australian vegetation requires information on vegetation type, where it is found and how it is used.
Over the last 12 years, Australian Governments have been working together to provide vegetation-related information on land cover change, land use, vegetation type and extent and forest-specific information across Australia. As a result it was difficult for users to obtain comprehensive information about all the vegetation types present within regional catchments they had to access and analyse five separate datasets.
Information is being integrated from a range of sources to provide visual answers to complex management issues such as salinity, water, land use change, healthy landscapes and social change.
A useful feature of the maps is that they show the relative areas of vegetation, as well as areas that either have no vegetation (e.g. urban and industrial areas) or that are naturally bare (e.g. lakes, mudflats and salt pans).
Advances in aerial photography, satellite imagery and mapping technology underpin regional vegetation information that is relevant and accessible to policy makers and natural resource managers.
For more information on forest plantations, have a look at the Plantations Information Network website, also developed by the Bureau of Rural Sciences.