This is an interactive map which community researchers can access at:
https://www.lmbc.nsw.gov.au/Maps/index.html?viewer=NVRMap.
Category 1 – exempt land – native vegetation clearing is allowed without approval from Local Land Services. Category 2 – regulated land – authorisation may be required from Local Land Services for native vegetation clearing. This may include clearing under the Land Management (Native Vegetation) Code 2018. Landholders also have a range of allowable clearing activities available to them for use without approval from Local Land Services.
The mapping covers:
Category 1 – exempt land – native vegetation clearing is allowed without approval from Local Land Services. Category 2 – regulated land – authorisation may be required from Local Land Services for native vegetation clearing. This may include clearing under the Land Management (Native Vegetation) Code 2018. Landholders also have a range of allowable clearing activities available to them for use without approval from Local Land Services.
Category 2 – vulnerable regulated land is designated as steep or highly erodible lands, protected riparian land or special category land. Use of the Land Management (Native Vegetation) Code 2018 and allowable clearing activities are restricted in these areas.
Category 2 – sensitive regulated land is designated as environmentally sensitive. Clearing under the Land Management (Native Vegetation) Code 2018 is not permitted in these areas, although there is a limited list of allowable clearing activities available.
Excluded land is managed outside the land management framework. Other clearing controls may exist in these areas.
Category 2 – vulnerable regulated land is displayed on the NVR map as Orange.
While Category 2 – sensitive regulated land is displayed as Pink.
In some circumstances, Category 2 – sensitive regulated land and Category 2 – vulnerable regulated land exist on the same land. If these two categories overlap, they are displayed as Brown on the map.
Excluded land is displayed as Grey.
Category 2 – vulnerable regulated land can include:
steep and highly erodible land: land with a slope >18 degrees and/or where soil characteristics, slope and rainfall erosion present a high erosion risk
protected riparian land: land within 20 meters of the bed or bank of a named natural watercourse or waterbody. This land filters runoff into streams and provides habitat for many plant and animal species and, in many cases, are the only remaining natural corridors in the landscape.
special category land: exists over some areas of NSW considered to be at particular environmental risk and includes land vulnerable to soil erosion, salinity, sedimentation and/or landslip.
Environmentally sensitive land defined as 'special category land' could include the following:
- Aboriginal site protection
- coastal dune protection
- erosion hazards
- flora and fauna protection
- geological/geomorphological site protection
- habitat protection,
- scenic values
- mass movement areas, and
- saline areas.
Category 2 sensitive regulated land includes a wide range of land including:
- Old growth forest
- Rainforest
- Critically endangered ecological communities
- Critically endangered plants
- Core koala habitat
- High conservation value grasslands or other groundcover
- Areas of outstanding biodiversity value
- Ramsar wetlands within the meaning of the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
- Land described as Coastal Wetlands in the Coastal Zone referred to in the Coastal Management Act
- Land described as Littoral Rainforest in the Coastal Zone referred to in the Coastal Management Act
- Land is subject to an approved conservation measure that was the basis for other land being biodiversity certified.
BACKGROUND
