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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 6.0 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 1,256,238 517,973 3,040,425 2,588,986 7,403,622
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 79,640 86 4,251 488 84,464
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 246,469 5,487 259,954 87,106 599,015
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 214,757 3,293 281,393 667,175 1,166,617
Great Barrier Reef catchments 32,838,347 346,124 12,946 259,482 624,379 1,242,931
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 445,132 1,596,533 661,293 2,702,958
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 45,626 364,609 171,514 581,749
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 39,457 774 130,532 58,001 228,764
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 299,650 1,796 85,318 206,393 593,158
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 167,103 4,075 2,821 13,278 1 20,175
Wide Bay-Burnett Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 5,307,305 26,067 13 45,075 112,635 183,791

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 20 December 2024. 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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