Web mapping services

We make our environmental data available as web services.

You can access these datasets using geospatial software. Find out how to access this data.

Open data is available for download on our Find Environmental Data catalogue. Select a link to show the metadata record from which you can choose to download the data.

To access other forms of accessible data as ESRI shapefiles, Rasters or File geodatabases, search in FED for ‘downloadable data’ under Additional Options > Content Type.

Note: Links have changed for the following WMS services to support infrastructure changes. The old URLs are available via https://www.environment.gov.au/arcgis_pub/rest/services and https://www.environment.gov.au/mapping/rest/services but will be retired in the near future.

Available data

Dataset Type URL
Australian Marine Parks WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Australian_Marine_Parks/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Australia, World Heritage Areas WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/World_Heritage_Areas/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Australia, World Heritage Areas including labels WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/World_Heritage_Areas_Label/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) - Marine WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/CAPAD_Marine/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) - terrestrial WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/CAPAD/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Commonwealth Heritage List Spatial Database (CHL) WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Commonwealth_Heritage_List/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Commonwealth Marine Regions WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Commonwealth_Marine_Regions/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Commonwealth Marine Reserves symbolised on IUCN Zone WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Commonwealth_Marine_Reserves_IUCN/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Conservation Management Zones of Australia WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Conservation_Management_Zones/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
EPBC Referrals Spatial Database WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/EPBC_Referrals/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
IMCRA Mesoscale WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/IMCRA_Mesoscale/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
IMCRA Provincial WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/IMCRA_Provincial/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Indigenous Protected Areas - Dedicated WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Indigenous_Protected_Areas/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA), Version 7 (Regions) WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/IBRA7_Regions/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA), Version 7 (Subregions) WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/IBRA7_Subregions/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Marine Key Ecological Features WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Key_Ecological_Features/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Marine Key Ecological Features with names WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Key_Ecological_Features_named/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
National Heritage List Spatial Database (NHL) - public WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/National_Heritage_List/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) Major Vegetation Groups – Extant Vegetation WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/NVIS_ext_mvg/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) Major Vegetation Groups – Estimated Pre- 1750 Vegetation WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/NVIS_pre_mvg/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) Major Vegetation Subgroups – Extant Vegetation WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/NVIS_ext_mvs/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) Major Vegetation Subgroups – Estimated Pre- 1750 Vegetation WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/NVIS_pre_mvs/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Natural Resource Management Regions WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/NRM_Regions/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Ramsar Upstream Catchments WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Ramsar_Upstream_Catchments/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Rangelands WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Rangelands/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Strategic Assessment areas WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Strategic_Assessment_Areas/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar) WMS https://gis.environment.gov.au/gispubmap/services/ogc_services/Ramsar_Wetlands/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS