See also: NSW Maps
Wide-ranging sites
Australian Bureau of Statistics:
Australian natural resources atlas
The Atlas provides access to a wide range of information on environment and natural resources. Its major headings are:
- Agriculture
- Coasts
- Salinity
- Irrigation
- Land
- Natural Resource Economics
- People
- Rangelands
- Soils
- Vegetation and Biodiversity
- Water
Australian State of the Environment Reports
Catchment Condition Online Mapping System from the Bureau of Rural Sciences
Coarse resolution mapping; useful for exploring the context of urban water management.
Community Access to Natural Resources Information (CANRI)
NSW Government site: Community Access to Natural Resources Information (CANRI) brings together key environmental information from NSW Government agencies and other organisations.
Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN)
Commonwealth portal through which a wide variety of environmental information can be accessed. (This site is accessible is available through the Australian natural resources atlas.)
Local State of the Environment Reports from New South Wales
Local Councils in New South Wales are required to prepare local State of the Environment Reports. many of these are available online. (Here they are listed via a tailored Google search.)
New South Wales Natural Resources Atlas
Online mapping of diverse environmental data. (Included within CANRI.)
New South Wales State of the Environment Reports
SOE Direct service from the NSW EPA
Data on each of the following is available (for at least part of the state):
- Waste Disposal and Recycling
- Environmental Grants
- Environment Protection Licensing
- Public Calls to Pollution Line
- Regional Pollution Index
- Contamination of Land
- River Health, Assessed by Macroinvertebrate Assemblages
- Coastal Recreational Water Quality
Data is provided as downloads which can be examined in Microsoft Excel (or similar).
Victorian Catchment Indicators Online
Ecological context for urban water managers on the NSW / Victorian border.
Victorian environmental data
Interactive maps of
from the Department of Sustainability and Environment, including water catchment and biodiversity data.
Land
PlanConnect from iPlan
This is the finest resolution land use mapping available online for New South Wales. The maps can be searched down to property level.
"You can use PlanConnect to do the following:
- find the zoning and planning control documents that apply to an area of land
- locate suitable sites for new commercial or industrial development
- look at aerial photography of a piece of land or an area
- add or remove data layers to understand the impacts on an area"
Water
Catchment maps with
Water quality and river flow interim environmental objectives
from the NSW EPA website
OzEstuaries
Data on Australian estuaries. Helpful when you are exploring the condition of coastal receiving water bodies.
Australian Wetlands Database
RAMSAR wetland sites and other nationally important wetlands.
Sydney Catchment Authority 2002-2003 water quality report
Biodiversity
Australian Biodiversity Information Facility
Australian Faunal Directory: Zoological Catalogue of Australia Database
Species Bank
"The wildlife of Australia is amazingly rich, and includes an estimated 2 million species of animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms. Species Bank is a new project that aims to expand the wildlife experience of the Australian community by describing and illustrating species of interest and/or importance to the community, their interactions with each other and ourselves, and their importance as a natural part of the environment we all share. [...] There are just over 250 Species Bank records loaded as of January 2004."
Wildwatch survey of native animals in backyards
