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NSW Koala Tree Index 5m v1.1

Created 07/06/2025

Updated 07/06/2025

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This layer reflects the probability of finding a tree species that a koala is known to use for food or shelter. The statewide Koala Habitat Information Base (KHIB) has been developed as part of the NSW Koala Strategy. It delivers the best available state-wide spatial data on koala habitat, likelihood, koala preferred trees and koala sightings for NSW. It will be an important resource to assist government agencies, local councils and private land holders with koala conservation decisions. The Koala Tree Index v1.1 is one dataset under the KHIB. Tree indices were developed for each of the nine Koala Modelling Regions and mosaiced together into a statewide raster. Boosted Regression Tree (BRT) individual tree species distribution models were developed for important food and shelter species, with each KMR possessing a characteristic set of species whose combined distributions added to create index. The choice which species to include in each region was determined by a process of expert elicitation. The statewide product is available for download below as a zipped 5m tif image readable in any spatial software package. An ArcGIS mxd is also supplied for suggested symbology. All Koala Habitat Information Base datasets are available for download at the links below under 'Dataset relationship'. For further information on the data layers and their development, please see the Koala Habitat Information Base Technical Guide.

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Title NSW Koala Tree Index 5m v1.1
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/b1512c2b-9de2-4f5b-a5f1-b3b2e2f51176
Remote Last Updated 26/02/2024
Contact Point
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
test@email.loc
Reference Period 01/01/1979 - 08/02/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Data Portal DataNSW

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "NSW Koala Tree Index 5m v1.1". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-koala-tree-indices