Water resource planning area 2019/pre-clear wetland extent percentages

Definition of water resource planning area

based on a comparison of 2019 and pre-clear wetland mapping

2019/pre-clear wetland extent percentage by water resource planning area
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Water resource planning area	Wetland extent percentage 2019/pre-clear by system				Total percentage
	intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural)	lacustrine (natural)	palustrine (natural)	riverine
All	98.5%	99.4%	96.2%	96.0%	97.6%
Baffle Creek Basin	99.3%	100.0%	78.8%	78.5%	88.0%
Barron	72.0%	100.0%	29.3%	80.7%	77.3%
Border Rivers and Moonie	-	83.4%	74.1%	73.4%	79.5%
Boyne River Basin	62.9%	-	2.9%	78.7%	128.5%
Burdekin Basin	86.6%	98.3%	88.0%	94.9%	97.0%
Burnett Basin	87.0%	-	56.9%	62.2%	64.5%
Calliope River Basin	87.6%	100.0%	100.6%	78.8%	88.9%
Cape York	99.7%	98.9%	99.7%	99.8%	99.8%
Condamine and Balonne	-	19.7%	72.6%	92.2%	95.6%
Cooper Creek	-	99.9%	99.6%	98.0%	99.6%
Fitzroy Basin	85.0%	93.6%	65.2%	90.8%	92.8%
Georgina and Diamantina	-	99.9%	100.0%	99.8%	100.0%
Gold Coast	69.4%	-	13.4%	40.0%	34.8%
Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers	99.9%	99.4%	99.0%	99.3%	99.8%
Gulf	100.0%	89.7%	99.1%	99.0%	99.8%
Logan Basin	79.1%	-	35.9%	50.6%	49.3%
Mary Basin	95.9%	100.0%	62.8%	58.3%	67.2%
Mitchell	100.0%	99.0%	99.0%	99.7%	100.9%
Moreton	69.9%	-	35.0%	62.5%	54.3%
Pioneer Valley	88.4%	100.0%	9.6%	63.4%	35.3%
Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine	-	99.1%	98.1%	94.8%	98.7%
Wet Tropics	92.7%	99.9%	46.8%	73.9%	66.8%
Whitsunday	95.5%	-	53.8%	90.8%	78.5%

Disclaimer

All figures exclude artificial and highly modified wetlands.

The total percentage figure includes slightly modified wetlands.

Figures 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.

Figures may change over time as mapping approaches improve.