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Lower Brisbane (Healthy Land and Water) report cardAccess wetland mapping in PDF and KML format by selecting the desired 100K map tile below or download the data via the Queensland Government Information Service. The below map is for visual representation purposes only. For more detailed mapping, please download the boundary KML. Drag this bar to relocate the map on your screen Open WetlandMaps interactive map server
Catchment stories
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| System | Area (km²) | % wetlands area | % total area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 60.8 | 100.0% | 5.2% |
| Artificial and highly modified | 10.5 | 17.3% | 0.9% |
| Estuarine | 17.7 | 29.1% | 1.5% |
| Lacustrine | 0.3 | 0.5% | 0.0% |
| Palustrine | 17.3 | 28.5% | 1.5% |
| Riverine | 15.0 | 24.6% | 1.3% |
| Habitat | Area (km²) | % wetlands area | % total area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 59.3 | 100.0% | 5.0% |
| Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 12.3 | 20.8% | 1.0% |
| Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes | 5.4 | 9.1% | 0.5% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal saline swamp | 0.5 | 0.8% | 0.0% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 12.4 | 20.9% | 1.1% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp | 4.4 | 7.5% | 0.4% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake | 0.3 | 0.5% | 0.0% |
| (modified natural) Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 0.7 | 1.1% | 0.1% |
| (modified natural) Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Artificial and highly modified wetlands (dams, ring tanks, irrigation channels) | 5.9 | 10.0% | 0.5% |
| (modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal saline swamp | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| (modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 0.3 | 0.4% | 0.0% |
| (modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp | 0.1 | 0.2% | 0.0% |
| (modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| (modified natural) Riverine | 1.9 | 3.3% | 0.2% |
| Riverine | 15.0 | 25.2% | 1.3% |
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.
Wetland extent changes
| System | 2017 area (km²) |
2013 area (km²) |
2009 area (km²) |
2005 area (km²) |
2001 area (km²) |
2017/pre-clear percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 60.8 | 62.5 | 61.0 | 61.6 | 62.1 | * 31.0% |
| Artificial and highly modified | 10.5 | 10.5 | 10.4 | 10.2 | 10.1 | n/a |
| Estuarine | 17.7 | 19.0 | 18.4 | 18.7 | 18.8 | 42.6% |
| Lacustrine | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | n/a |
| Palustrine | 17.3 | 17.6 | 17.4 | 17.8 | 18.2 | 24.0% |
| Riverine | 15.0 | 15.0 | 14.5 | 14.6 | 14.6 | 29.4% |
* Total 2017/pre-clear percentage excludes artificial and highly modified
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View 2017/pre-clear wetland system extent percentages for all report cards
| Habitat | 2017 area (km²) |
2013 area (km²) |
2009 area (km²) |
2005 area (km²) |
2001 area (km²) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 59.3 | 60.9 | 59.4 | 60.0 | 60.5 |
| Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 12.3 | 13.4 | 12.9 | 13.1 | 13.1 |
| Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.7 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal saline swamp | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 12.4 | 12.7 | 12.5 | 12.6 | 12.9 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.7 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain lake | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| (modified natural) Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| (modified natural) Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Artificial and highly modified wetlands (dams, ring tanks, irrigation channels) | 5.9 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.5 |
| (modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal saline swamp | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| (modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| (modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| (modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| (modified natural) Riverine | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Riverine | 15.0 | 15.0 | 14.5 | 14.6 | 14.6 |
View 2017 wetland habitat area for all report cards
View 2013 wetland habitat area for all report cards
View 2009 wetland habitat area for all report cards
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.
Drainage divisions 
Drainage basins
Drainage sub-basins
Regional natural resource management (NRM) bodies
Local government areas
100K map tiles
Climate zones
Subtropical
Bioregions
Biogeographic subregions
IBRA bioregions
IBRA subregions
Bioregional assessment areas
Marine meso-scale bioregions
- Tweed-Moreton (TM)
Marine provincial bioregions
- Central Eastern Shelf Transition
Regional plans
World Heritage areas
Ramsar internationally important wetlands
DIWA nationally important wetlands
National parks
Marine parks (Queensland)
Study areas
Report cards
Conservation parks
State forests
Forest reserves
Resources reserves
Timber reserves
Fish habitat areas
Coastal management district
- Available (all have been combined since February 2012)
Nature refuges
- Blunder Creek Reserve Nature Refuge
- Feathertail Nature Refuge
- Hawkesbury Road Nature Refuge
- Kuta Koala Nature Refuge
- Mount Crosby Weir Nature Refuge
- Mount Petrie Road Nature Refuge
- Pooh Corner Nature Refuge
- Smith's Rainforest Nature Refuge
- Stewartdale Nature Refuge
- Undullah Nature Refuge
- Wacol Bushlands Nature Refuge
Freshwater biogeographic provinces
Aquatic Conservation Assessments (AquaBAMM) and others
Wetland (aquatic ecosystem) type—conceptual models
- Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp
- Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp.
- Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake
- Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp.
- Coastal and sub-coastal saline swamp
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
- Aerial surveys of waterbirds in eastern Australia
- Ecosystem health monitoring program – estuarine and marine
- Ecosystem health monitoring program – freshwater
- Environmental flows assessment program (EFAP)
- Framework for the assessment of river and wetland health (FARWH) – Queensland trials
- Groundwater water level network
- Long term historical trend water quality monitoring data
- Lyngbya monitoring program
- Moreton Bay regional council waterway health monitoring program
- Queensland wetland mapping
- South East Queensland (SEQ) Catchments community water quality monitoring program
- Surface water monitoring network
Point source monitoring
Wetland soil indicator case studies
Wetland management case studies
Wetland projects
- ANZAC Tree Daisy Management
- Biodiversity Enhancement at Underwood Road, Eight Mile Plains
- Bridgewater Creek Intertidal Rehabilitation and Riparian Restoration Project
- Brisbane River Corridor Riparian Project
- Brisbane River Restoration Project Stage 3 - Colmslie Beach Reserve Restoration
- Cleaning Up Our Oceans - Monitoring and managing marine debris with the Reef Check volunteer program
- Creating habitat for threatened and declining species at the University of Queensland, St Lucia
- Everyone’s Ithaca
- Fish Creek Rescue
- Green lane clean-up
- Health Waterways clean-up program
- Healthy Waterways Clean Up Program
- Healthy Waterways Clean Up Program 2014 - 2015
- Hemmant-Tingalpa Corridor Confluence Rehab Project
- Indooroopilly Scout Group Den Landcare Improvement Project Phase 2
- Kedron Brook Waterway Project Leslie Patrick Park, Arana Hills
- Kids By The Creek
- Kids By The Creek - Stages 2, 3 and 4
- Oxbow South Rehabilitation and Re-vegetation project
- Oxbow Wetland Biodiversity Corridor
- Pacey Road Sub-Catchment Conservation Project
- Pollard Park Creek naturalisation
- 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
- Rehabilitation and revegetation - Bert Hall Park & Fernwood Reserve, FERNY HILLS
- Rehabilitation and revegetation - Bert Hall Park, FERNY HILLS
- Rehabilitation and revegetation - Wightman Reserve, FERNY HILLS
- Rehabilitation and revegetation - Wightman Reserve & Lemm Park, ARANA HILLS
- Rehabilitation on Cabbage Tree Creek
- Rehabilitation on Oxbow to Bulimba Creek
- Revegetation of Moggill Creek
- Riparian bushcare at Brook Park, Ferny Hills
- Riparian Restoration in Industrial Waterways
- Rochedale Scout Group - Weed Eradication Project
- Settlers Gully Project
- Spine Street Park Restoration Project
- Stable Swamp Creek Extended Monitoring Program
- Toowong Creek Turnaround - Wildlife Corridor Project
- Vera Street Community Place, Vera Street, Toowong, Brisbane
- Waterway Maintenance Program—Cabbage Tree Creek, Ferny Hills
- Wild About Your Creeks
- Witton for Wildlife - midstorey rescue
- Wynnum North Reserve Restoration
Area specific conceptual model case studies
Water quality improvement plan catchments
EPP (Water) scheduled environmental values and water quality objectives
Shorebird zones
Biopassage structures
| Name | Construction year | Structure types | Stream name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookwater Linear Pathway |
2015 | Culvert | Opossum Creek |
| Bulimba Freeway |
2020 | Culvert | Bulimba Ck Tributory |
| Enoggera Creek |
2010 | Cone | Enoggera Creek |
| Leslie Patrick Park (Kedron Brook) |
Rock Ramp | Kedron Brook | |
| Mt Crosby Weir |
1941 | Pool and Weir | Brisbane River |
Related legislation/policies
External links/description
Wildlife
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Kingdom
Class
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Native | Introduced | Wetland indicator species |
Rare or threatened species |
All |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOTAL | 3921 | 840 | 495 | 107 | 4762 |
| Animals | 922 | 45 | 241 | 59 | 967 |
| Mammals | 91 | 17 | 9 | 12 | 108 |
| Birds | 443 | 12 | 97 | 31 | 455 |
| Reptiles | 118 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 121 |
| Amphibians | 36 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 37 |
| Lobe-finned fishes | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ray-finned fishes | 47 | 10 | 56 | 1 | 57 |
| Cartilaginous fishes | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Insects | 180 | 2 | 51 | 3 | 182 |
| Malacostracans | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Bacteria | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 |
| Chromists | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Fungi | 849 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 850 |
| Plants | 2096 | 795 | 254 | 48 | 2891 |
| Protozoans | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Note: Wildlife statistics are based on information that has been submitted to the DES WildNet database and converted to a 10km² grid. The grid information has been intersected with the mapping polygons to determine the species lists. Click here to view the species grid metadata.
Information from WildNet can also be accessed via Wildlife Online and WetlandMaps.
Rare or threatened includes species listed as extinct, extinct in the wild, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or conservation dependent under either the Nature Conservation Act or Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
Disclaimer: While every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of this product, the Queensland Government and Australian Government make no representations or warranties about its accuracy, reliability, completeness or suitability for any particular purpose and disclaim all responsibility and all liability (including without limitation, liability in negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages (including indirect or consequential damage) and costs which might be incurred as a consequence of reliance on the product, or as a result of the product being inaccurate or incomplete in any way and for any reason.
This page should be cited as:
Department of Environment and Science, Queensland (2013) Lower Brisbane (Healthy Land and Water) report card — facts and maps, WetlandInfo website, accessed 1 February 2023. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/facts-maps/report-card-lower-brisbane-healthy-land-and-water/
— Department of Environment and Science