Brisbane drainage basin
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Based on wetland mapping version 4.0
Brisbane drainage basin wetland area by system 2013
System
Area (km²)
% wetlands area
% total area
Total
495.9
100.0%
3.7%
Artificial and highly modified
206.7
41.7%
1.5%
Estuarine
8.1
1.6%
0.1%
Lacustrine
4.8
1.0%
0.0%
Palustrine
36.3
7.3%
0.3%
Riverine
240.1
48.4%
1.8%
There are approximately 1,048 lacustrine/palustrine wetlands in this region.
Brisbane drainage basin wetland area by habitat 2013
Habitat
Area (km²)
% wetlands area
% total area
Total
495.9
100.0%
3.7%
Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities
5.7
1.1%
0.0%
Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes
2.4
0.5%
0.0%
Coastal and sub-coastal saline swamp
0.0
0.0%
0.0%
Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp.
7.1
1.4%
0.1%
Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass sedge and herb swamp
0.1
0.0%
0.0%
Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp.
9.7
2.0%
0.1%
Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp
19.3
3.9%
0.1%
Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain lake
4.6
0.9%
0.0%
Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake
0.2
0.0%
0.0%
Artificial and highly modified wetlands (dams, ring tanks, irrigation channels)
206.5
41.6%
1.5%
(modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp
0.1
0.0%
0.0%
Riverine
240.1
48.4%
1.8%
Disclaimer
Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation (e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).
Areas are approximate and calculated using the GDA94 / Australian Albers projection.
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.
Wetland extent changes
Brisbane drainage basin wetland extent change by system
System
2013 area (km²)
2009 area (km²)
2005 area (km²)
2001 area (km²)
2013/pre-clear percentage
Total
495.9
495.0
494.3
493.7
79.8%
Artificial and highly modified
206.7
205.7
204.1
202.2
n/a
Estuarine
8.1
8.1
8.1
8.1
54.7%
Lacustrine
4.8
4.7
4.8
4.8
n/a
Palustrine
36.3
36.3
36.4
36.8
38.4%
Riverine
240.1
240.4
241.0
241.8
57.4%
Brisbane drainage basin wetland extent change by habitat
Habitat
2013 area (km²)
2009 area (km²)
2005 area (km²)
2001 area (km²)
Total
495.9
495.0
494.3
493.7
Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities
5.7
5.7
5.7
5.7
Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes
2.4
2.4
2.4
2.4
Coastal and sub-coastal saline swamp
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp.
7.1
7.1
7.2
7.4
Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass sedge and herb swamp
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp.
9.7
9.7
9.7
9.8
Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp
19.3
19.4
19.4
19.4
Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain lake
4.6
4.6
4.6
4.6
Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake
0.2
0.1
0.1
0.1
Artificial and highly modified wetlands (dams, ring tanks, irrigation channels)
206.5
205.5
203.9
202.1
(modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
Riverine
240.1
240.4
241.0
241.8
Disclaimer
Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation (e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).
Areas are approximate and calculated using the GDA94 / Australian Albers projection.
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.
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none
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Conservation parks
Bellthorpe Conservation Park
Byron Creek Conservation Park
Cressbrook Conservation Park
Crohamhurst Conservation Park
Denmark Hill Conservation Park
Dwyers Scrub Conservation Park
Flagstone Creek Conservation Park
Flinders Peak Conservation Park
Glass House Mountains Conservation Park
Indooroopilly Island Conservation Park
Ipswich Pteropus Conservation Park
Moggill Conservation Park
Mount Beau Brummell Conservation Park
Mount Perry Conservation Park
Neurum Creek Conservation Park
Tenthill Conservation Park
Toohey Forest Conservation Park
White Rock Conservation Park
State forests
Beerburrum West State Forest
Bellthorpe State Forest
Benarkin State Forest
Crohamhurst State Forest
D'Aguilar State Forest
Deer Reserve State Forest
Delaneys Creek State Forest
Deongwar State Forest
Diaper State Forest
East Nanango State Forest
Elgin Vale State Forest
Esk State Forest
Gallangowan State Forest
Geham State Forest
Gibson State Forest
Glen Rock State Forest
Googa State Forest
Jimna State Forest
Lilydale State Forest
Lockyer State Forest
Luttons State Forest
Mount Binga State Forest
Mount Mee State Forest
Mount Stanley State Forest 1
Peachester State Forest
Pechey State Forest
Pidna State Forest
South Nanango State Forest
Squirrel Creek State Forest
Sunday Creek State Forest
Yabba State Forest
Yarraman State Forest
Forest reserves
Elgin Vale Forest Reserve
Mount Binga Forest Reserve
Mount Stanley Forest Reserve 1
Yabba Forest Reserve 2
Resources reserves
Conondale Resources Reserve
Lockyer Resources Reserve
Timber reserves
none
Fish habitat areas
none
Coastal management district
Available (all have been combined since February 2012)
Nature refuges
Alice Creek Nature Refuge
Angel Place Nature Refuge
Berlin Scrub Nature Refuge
Bloodwood Creek Nature Refuge
Blunder Creek Reserve Nature Refuge
Bowman Park Koala Nature Refuge
Butterfly Bog Nature Refuge
Danroben Nature Refuge
Edward Corbould Reserve and Retreat Nature Refuge No.4
Feathertail Nature Refuge
Gaia Nature Refuge
Gattonview Nature Refuge
Gum Tips Nature Refuge
Hawkesbury Road Nature Refuge
Hollow Log Nature Refuge
JAL Nature Refuge
Kalisha Nature Refuge
Kuta Koala Nature Refuge
Long Grass Nature Refuge
Mount Crosby Weir Nature Refuge
Mount Hallen Nature Refuge
Mount Mellum Nature Refuge
Mount Mellum West Nature Refuge
Mount Petrie Road Nature Refuge
Mount Stradbroke Nature Refuge
Old Hiddenvale Nature Refuge
Pine Cliffs Nature Refuge
Pooh Corner Nature Refuge
Rathburnie Estate Nature Refuge
Ravensbourne Nature Refuge
Resolute Nature Refuge
Shingle Hut Creek Nature Refuge
Smith's Rainforest Nature Refuge (Area A)
Smith's Rainforest Nature Refuge (Area B)
Somerset-Wivenhoe Dams Nature Refuge
Stewartdale Nature Refuge
Sticky Gully Nature Refuge
Tandoon Nature Refuge
Tea Trees Nature Refuge
The Gullies Nature Refuge
Thornton View Nature Refuge
Tir Na Crann Nature Refuge
Ukikuna Nature Refuge
Wacol Bushlands Nature Refuge
Walker's Wilderness Nature Refuge
Woolshed Nature Refuge
Wootha Valley Nature Refuge
Xanthorrhoea Nature Refuge
Freshwater biogeographic provinces
Aquatic Conservation Assessments (AquaBAMM)
Wetland (aquatic ecosystem) type—conceptual models
Wetland (aquatic ecosystem) type—management profiles
Groundwater dependent ecosystem type—conceptual models
Healthy Land and Water conceptual models
Water resource planning areas
Aquatic ecosystem monitoring programs
Point source monitoring
Wetland soil indicator case studies
Wetland management case studies
Wetland projects
ANZAC Tree Daisy Management
BBC Working together for a Better Bundamba Creek
Beating back the boxthorn - Sustainable scrub country
Bell's Riparian Re-vegetation at Upper Warrill
Biodiversity Enhancement at Underwood Road, Eight Mile Plains
BM NLP 06 Western Mary Sub-catchments Grazing Landscapes Project
Bremer Healthy Country Gully Restoration: Fuller
Bremer Healthy Country Riparian Restoration - Breen
Bremer Healthy Country Riparian Restoration - Buckham
Bremer Healthy Country Riparian Restoration - Buckham - phase 2
Bremer Healthy Country Riparian Restoration - Corrie
Bremer Healthy Country Riparian Restoration - Freeman
Bremer Healthy Country Riparian restoration - Hayes
Bremer Healthy Country Riparian Restoration - Lamont
Bremer Healthy Country Riparian restoration – M. and S. Christensen
Bremer Healthy Country riparian restoration - Neale
Bremer Healthy Country Riparian Restoration - Parr
Bremer Healthy Country Riparian Restoration - Thompson
Bremer Healthy Country Wetland Reinstatement and Pasture Renovation – Sellars
Bridgewater Creek Intertidal Rehabilitation and Riparian Restoration Project
Brisbane River Corridor Riparian Project
Brisbane River Restoration Project Stage 3 - Colmslie Beach Reserve Restoration
Bundamba Creek Urban Wetland Project - David W Coultas Park
Bunya Biolink: Improving Condition and Connectivity of Riparian Vegetation Along Little Britain Creek at Coalbank: Nolan
CBBC - People and Places Connecting for a Better Bundamba Creek
Clean Water for the Condamine
Cleaning Up Our Oceans - Monitoring and managing marine debris with the Reef Check volunteer program
Community workshops and establishment of model landscaped coastal gardens in the Fraser Coast Regional Council
Connecting Lowland Subtropical Rainforest and Other Significant Vegetation near Stanley River at Stanmore: Wegert
Connectivity and Biodiversity - Stanley and Pumicestone headwaters - BSES Ltd subcontract CAH-A11
Connectivity and Biodiversity - Stanley and Pumicestone headwaters - Malcolm Lower subcontract CAH-A11
Control of Overland Flow through a Gully, Junction View
Creating habitat for threatened and declining species at the University of Queensland, St Lucia
D’Andilly’s Irbyana Protection
Dennis’s Irbyana Protection Project
Enhancing Lowland Subtropical Rainforest Along Ewen Creek at Crohamhurst: Sanders
Enhancing Lowland Subtropical Rainforest Along the Upper Stanley River at Peachester: Benjafield
Enhancing the sustainability of the native pasture ecosystem in Emu Creek Catchment by control of invasive weeds
Establishing Swamp Tea-tree Forest on Tir Na Crann Koala Nature Refuge
Everyone’s Ithaca
Feral pig control, Great Sandy Strait/Ramsar Site
Final Project, National Landcare Program 03, Activity 7: North East Downs Landcare Group and Activity 9: Aubigny Catchment Landcare Group
Final Project Report National Landcare Program 06. Millmerran Landcare Group: Implementing Best Management Practice in Grazing Lands in the Condamine Catchment
Fish Creek Rescue
Flood Recovery - Fassifern: Abraham
Flood Recovery - Fassifern: Bell/Zahnow
Flood Recovery - Fassifern: Harsant
Flood Recovery - Fassifern: Harvey
Flood Recovery - Fassifern: Holland
Flood Recovery - Fassifern: Lobegeiger
Flood Recovery - Fassifern: Rieck
Flood Recovery - Fassifern: Wallis
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Bauer
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Crust
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Darvall
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Hagan
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Huston (Stage 1)
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Meagher
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Olm
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Redinger
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Serendipity Farm Animal Centre
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Stock
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Upper Blackfellow Creek Catchment (McCarthy)
Flood Recovery - Lockyer: Visagie
Flood Recovery - Upper Brisbane: Anabranch, Toogoolawah
Flood Recovery - Upper Brisbane: Annan farm, Harlin
Flood Recovery - Upper Brisbane: Cressbrook Station (McConnel)
Flood Recovery - Upper Brisbane: Hampstead, Pulsford
Flood Recovery - Upper Brisbane: Yandilla, Mt. Kilcoy and McCowan
Flood-runner Re-establishment for Sediment Control, Mt Sylvia: Redinger and Otto
Forest Hill wastewater treatment plant
Francis Street Bushland
Green lane clean-up
GreenWorks Cooyar Creek Rehabilitation - Riparian Weed Control Stage 2: Greening Australia
GreenWorks Emu Creek - Enhancing Environmental Values of Golden Gully and Oaky Creek: Rowlings
GreenWorks Emu Creek - Enhancing Riparian and Habitat Values Around Oaky Creek: Parton
GreenWorks Emu Creek - Enhancing Riparian and Habitat Values at McConnel’s, Oaky and Emu Creeks: Seifert
GreenWorks - Improving Riparian Values along Cooyar Creek at Kooralgin: Kruger
Harlin Restoration Project
Health Waterways clean-up program
Healthy Country Program in the Bremer and Pumicestone Passage Catchments: Hall
Healthy Country Program in the Bremer and Pumicestone Passage Catchments: Lutter
Healthy Waterways Clean Up Program
Healthy Waterways Clean Up Program 2014 - 2015
Hemmant-Tingalpa Corridor Confluence Rehab Project
Improving biodiversity and sustainable farming outcomes in the upper Condamine catchment
Improving connectivity, salinity and social amenity, Black Snake Creek, Marburg
Indooroopilly Scout Group Den Landcare Improvement Project Phase 2
Irbyana Enhancement: Smith
Irbyana Enhancement: Thorne
Jim Donald Constructed Wetland and stormwater irrigation system
Kids By The Creek
Kids By The Creek - Stages 2, 3 and 4
Koala Kitchen Project
Lawson—feral pig control on Eurimbula Creek
Management of Overland Flow for Sediment Control, Woodbine: Stephan
Managing stock for wetland health and production
Oxbow South Rehabilitation and Re-vegetation project
Oxbow Wetland Biodiversity Corridor
Pacey Road Sub-Catchment Conservation Project
PCE 14/15 - Pig Control at Tandora
PCE 14/15 - Revive Our Creeks (Cooloola Cove)
PCE 14/15 - Tinnanbar Flower Reserve and Cowra Pine Wildling Control Project
PCE - FIDO Weed Management and Environmental Monitoring at Eurong Fraser Island 14/15
PCE - FIDO Weed Management at Happy Valley Fraser Island 14/15
PCE - Pine Wilding Control in High Value Coastal Ecosystems - Crab Creek DNRM
PCE - Ravenhills and Maddicks Road - Weed and feral animal control
Pest and weed management: managing invasive species in the Burnett Mary Region
Pollard Park Creek naturalisation
Productive and resilient agricultural landscapes in the Condamine region
Protection and Restoration of Swamp Tea-tree Forest at ‘Fairways’, Toogoolawah
Protection and Restoration of Swamp Tea-tree Forest at Peak Crossing (Turgeon)
Protection and Restoration of Swamp Tea-tree Forest: Kentville Road
Protection and Restoration of Swamp Tea-tree Forest: UQ Gatton campus
Protection of swamp tea-tree forest at Morden Road, Toogoolawah: Siedofsky
QUU Interflow Hemmant Recreation Reserve Revegetation Project N121961
Raymond Road Park Rehabilitation
Re-vegetation of Moggill Creek Stage 2
Redbank recreation reserve integrated stormwater wetland
Reducing impacts on sustainable landscapes through weeds and pests activities
Rehabilitation on Oxbow to Bulimba Creek
Restoration of Former Swamp Tea-tree Wetland at Fulham, Toogoolawah: Hopkins
Restoration of Lockyer Creek at UQ Gatton - Stage 2
Restoration of Lockyer Creek. University of Queensland, Gatton Campus
Restoring riparian habitat along Yarraman Creek: Reilly Stage 2
Revegetation of Moggill Creek
Riparian Area Establishment and Stabilisation at Withcott: Phase 1
Riparian Protection Works to Reduce Streambank Erosion, Harlin
Riparian Restoration in Industrial Waterways
Rochedale Scout Group - Weed Eradication Project
Rosevale Riparian Restoration - Swan
Settlers Gully Project
Small Creek naturalisation stage 1
Smith's Smith’s Riparian Re-vegetation of Purga Creek
Spine Street Park Restoration Project
Stable Swamp Creek Extended Monitoring Program
Sustainable grazing management and on-ground works: conserving soils in the Burnett Mary Region
Swamp Tea Tree Protection and Enhancement: Smith
The history and role of fire in the patterned fens—Great Sandy Strait, Queensland
Toowong Creek Turnaround - Wildlife Corridor Project
Towards the Integrated Management of Terrestrial and Aquatic Weeds of National State and Regional Significance
Upper Mt Walker Hillslope Erosion Project
Upper Sandy Creek Riparian Corridor Increasing Connectivity for Biodiversity
Upper Warrill Healthy Country: C. and M. Christensen
Upper Warrill Healthy Country: Johnson
Upper Warrill Healthy Country: Lotz
Upper Warrill Healthy Country: Quickshelf No. 1 Pty Ltd
Upper Warrill Healthy Country:Wolter
Vera Street Community Place, Vera Street, Toowong, Brisbane
Wallaby Ware channel naturalisation and saturated zone bioretention basin construction
Waterbody Maintenance Program—Parragilga Wetland, D'Aguilar
Western Mary Sub-catchments Grazing Landscapes Project
Wild About Your Creeks
Witton for Wildlife - midstorey rescue
Woolshed Creek salinity mitigation and wetland enhancement (tree planting): McMichael - phase 1
Wynnum North Reserve Restoration
Yarraman Creek Riparian Restoration Stage 4
Area specific conceptual model case studies
none
Water quality improvement plan catchments
none
EPP (Water) scheduled environmental values and water quality objectives
Bremer River (WQ1436)
HEVm1141 (HEV) – Main Range National Park
Brisbane River Estuary (WQ1431)
E1 (HEV) – Moggill Conservation Park
Lockyer Creek (WQ1437)
HD1201 (HD) – Lockyer Creek: water quality assessment
HEVm1201 (HEV) – Lockyer National Park; Ravensbourne National Park; Lockyer Resources Reserve; Lockyer State Forest
HEVm1202 (HEV) – Gatton National Park
HEVm1203 (HEV) – Main Range National Park
HEVm1367 (HEV) – Esk National Park
Mid Brisbane River (WQ1433)
HEVm1221 (HEV) – D'Aguilar National Park
HEVm1221 (HEV) – Lake Winenhoe surrounds
Oxley Creek (WQ1434)
G1 (HEV) – Oxley and Blunder Creeks (upper reaches) : lowland freshwater within Greenbank army camp
Sandy, Six Mile, Wolston, Woogaroo and Goodna Creeks (WQ1435)
G1 (HEV) – Oxley and Blunder Creeks (upper reaches) : lowland freshwater within Greenbank army camp
Stanley River (WQ1439)
HEVm1381 (HEV) – Bellthorpe National Park
HEVm1381 (HEV) – Conondale National Park
HEVm1382 (HEV) – Beerburrum West State Forest; Beerburrum Forest Reserve 1; Glass House Mountains National Park
HEVm1382 (HEV) – Bellthorpe State Forest
HEVm1382 (HEV) – Peachester State Forest
HEVm1383 (HEV) – D'Aguilar National Park & Mount Mee State Forest
HEVm1385 (HEV) – Deer Reserve National Park
Upper Brisbane River (WQ1438)
HEVa1361 (HEV) – Wrattens National Park
HEVm1362 (HEV) – Conondale National Park & Jimna State Forest
HEVm1363 (HEV) – Benarkin State Forest
HEVm1365 (HEV) – Mount Binga National Park & Mount Binga State Forest
HEVm1366 (HEV) – Deer Reserve National Park
HEVm1367 (HEV) – Crows Nest National Park
HEVm1367 (HEV) – Deongwar State Forest
HEVm1367 (HEV) – Esk National Park
HEVm1367 (HEV) – Ravensbourne National Park
HEVm1368 (HEV) – D'Aguilar National Park
HEVm1368 (HEV) – Lake Winenhoe surrounds
Back on Track actions for biodiversity
Shorebird zones
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Wildlife
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