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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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Pre-clear wetland system extent by Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other metadata
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Aquatic Conservation Assessment Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) lacustrine (natural) palustrine (natural) riverine
Total 173,289,025 1,270,988 517,926 3,054,915 2,736,063 7,579,892
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 79,652 86 4,255 488 84,480
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 246,891 5,444 263,243 87,533 603,111
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 228,572 3,297 286,799 669,648 1,188,316
Great Barrier Reef catchments 32,838,347 346,488 13,499 256,601 638,997 1,255,585
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 444,255 1,598,508 782,600 2,825,363
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 46,000 371,035 177,009 594,044
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 39,500 774 130,249 60,414 230,937
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 299,657 1,733 85,575 206,387 593,352
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 167,103 4,075 2,824 12,295 1 19,195
Wide Bay-Burnett Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 5,307,305 26,154 13 46,356 112,985 185,508

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Aquatic Conservation Assessments (AquaBAMM) and others.

Disclaimer

Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation
(e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).

All statistics are approximate and generated based on data transformed to a customised Albers equal-area projection, thus allowing wetland extent change for different regions of Queensland to be comparable.

Areas may change over time as mapping approaches improve.

Totals may not match the sum of individually displayed figures due to the rounding of displayed figures.


This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other pre-clear wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-pre-clear/aca-bounding-area.html

Queensland Government
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