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Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other 2021 wetland system extents

Definition of Aquatic Conservation Assessment (AquaBAMM) and other

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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2021 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)
artificial and highly modified intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (slightly modified) lacustrine (natural) lacustrine (slightly modified) lacustrine (unknown degree of modification) palustrine (natural) palustrine (slightly modified) riverine
Total 173,289,025 319,361 1,204,903 4,546 514,134 39,400 60 2,842,787 90,008 2,575,176 7,590,375
Baffle to Fitzroy coastal region 418,492 71 77,123 177 85 247 < 1 2,770 5,971 478 86,922
Cape York catchments 10,777,744 2,771 246,111 5,383 197 262,313 305 87,266 604,346
Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria 30,296,090 9,854 228,488 3,251 5,716 11 283,278 2,786 663,830 1,197,215
Great Barrier Reef catchments 32,838,347 137,256 290,852 3,781 12,619 18,240 19 149,313 63,228 575,831 1,251,139
Lake Eyre and Bulloo basins 51,022,919 8,024 443,856 3,314 2 1,596,216 1,461 777,239 2,830,114
Queensland Murray-Darling and Bulloo basins 31,458,206 93,571 43,923 4,973 < 1 355,667 11,388 157,726 667,250
South East Queensland catchments 2,456,026 32,214 33,386 571 771 1,940 15 67,299 2,775 34,171 173,143
Southern Gulf catchments 8,546,795 7,045 299,623 1,408 2,854 84,987 898 204,638 601,453
Wide Bay-Burnett catchments 167,103 4,082 2,824 12,174 1 19,082
Wide Bay-Burnett Great Barrier Reef connecting catchments 5,307,305 28,554 25,237 17 13 1,918 11 28,770 1,195 73,996 159,712

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 2021 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent/aca-bounding-area.html

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