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Brisbane River drainage sub-basinAccess 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 | 259.3 | 100.0% | 3.7% |
| Artificial and highly modified | 132.6 | 51.2% | 1.9% |
| Estuarine | 7.8 | 3.0% | 0.1% |
| Lacustrine | 0.3 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Palustrine | 11.5 | 4.4% | 0.2% |
| Riverine | 107.0 | 41.3% | 1.5% |
| Habitat | Area (km²) | % wetlands area | % total area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 258.9 | 100.0% | 3.7% |
| Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 5.4 | 2.1% | 0.1% |
| Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes | 2.4 | 0.9% | 0.0% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal saline swamp | 0.2 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| 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. | 8.4 | 3.2% | 0.1% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp | 2.8 | 1.1% | 0.0% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake | 0.3 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| (modified natural) Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 0.4 | 0.2% | 0.0% |
| (modified natural) Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Artificial and highly modified wetlands (dams, ring tanks, irrigation channels) | 129.6 | 50.1% | 1.8% |
| (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. | 0.2 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| (modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp | 0.1 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| (modified natural) Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| (modified natural) Riverine | 1.9 | 0.8% | 0.0% |
| Riverine | 107.0 | 41.3% | 1.5% |
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 | 259.3 | 259.6 | 258.0 | 258.4 | 258.9 | * 50.3% |
| Artificial and highly modified | 132.6 | 132.6 | 132.4 | 132.0 | 131.7 | n/a |
| Estuarine | 7.8 | 8.1 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 47.7% |
| Lacustrine | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | n/a |
| Palustrine | 11.5 | 11.6 | 11.2 | 11.4 | 11.7 | 30.4% |
| Riverine | 107.0 | 107.1 | 106.6 | 107.1 | 107.5 | 53.6% |
* Total 2017/pre-clear percentage excludes artificial and highly modified
View 2017 wetland system extents for all drainage sub-basins
View 2013 wetland system extents for all drainage sub-basins
View 2009 wetland system extents for all drainage sub-basins
View 2005 wetland system extents for all drainage sub-basins
View 2001 wetland system extents for all drainage sub-basins
View 2017/pre-clear wetland system extent percentages for all drainage sub-basins
| Habitat | 2017 area (km²) |
2013 area (km²) |
2009 area (km²) |
2005 area (km²) |
2001 area (km²) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 258.9 | 259.3 | 257.7 | 258.1 | 258.6 |
| Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 5.4 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.3 |
| Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal saline swamp | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass sedge and herb swamp | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.4 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, herb swamp | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 2.9 |
| 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 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| (modified natural) Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| (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) | 129.6 | 129.6 | 129.4 | 129.0 | 128.7 |
| (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. | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 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 | 107.0 | 107.1 | 106.6 | 107.1 | 107.5 |
View 2017 wetland habitat area for all drainage sub-basins
View 2013 wetland habitat area for all drainage sub-basins
View 2009 wetland habitat area for all drainage sub-basins
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.
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- Available (all have been combined since February 2012)
Nature refuges
- Bloodwood Creek Nature Refuge
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- Feathertail Nature Refuge
- Hawkesbury Road Nature Refuge
- JAL Nature Refuge
- Kuta Koala Nature Refuge
- Mount Crosby Weir Nature Refuge
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- Mount Stradbroke Nature Refuge
- Pine Cliffs Nature Refuge
- Pooh Corner Nature Refuge
- Rathburnie Estate Nature Refuge
- Resolute Nature Refuge
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- Somerset-Wivenhoe Dams Nature Refuge
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- Ukikuna 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 grass sedge and herb swamp
- 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
- Alluvia
- Catchment constrictions
- Exclusion zones
- Fractured rocks
- Impoundments
- Low-lying coastal swamps
- Permeable rocks
- Petrie formation along the shoreline of Moreton Bay
- Recharge zones
- Sandy plains
- Sedimentary rocks (Clarence-Moreton basin)
- Sedimentary rocks (Great Artesian Basin)
- Silkstone formation
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 – event-based
- Ecosystem health monitoring program – freshwater
- Environmental flows assessment program (EFAP)
- Framework for the assessment of river and wetland health (FARWH) – Queensland trials
- Groundwater ambient network (GWAN) – water quality
- Groundwater water level network
- Long term historical trend water quality monitoring data
- Moreton Bay regional council waterway health monitoring program
- Queensland wetland mapping
- South East Queensland (SEQ) Catchments community water quality monitoring program
- Surface water ambient network (SWAN) – water quality
- Surface water monitoring network
Point source monitoring
Wetland soil indicator case studies
Wetland management case studies
Wetland projects
- ANZAC Tree Daisy Management
- Beating back the boxthorn - Sustainable scrub country
- Biodiversity Enhancement at Underwood Road, Eight Mile Plains
- BM NLP 06 Western Mary Sub-catchments Grazing Landscapes Project
- 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
- 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
- Creating habitat for threatened and declining species at the University of Queensland, St Lucia
- Enhancing the sustainability of the native pasture ecosystem in Emu Creek Catchment by control of invasive weeds
- 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 - Upper Brisbane: Anabranch, Toogoolawah
- Flood Recovery - Upper Brisbane: Annan farm, Harlin
- Flood Recovery - Upper Brisbane: Cressbrook Station (McConnel)
- Flood Recovery - Upper Brisbane: Hampstead, Pulsford
- 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 Waterways Clean Up Program
- Healthy Waterways Clean Up Program 2014 - 2015
- Hemmant-Tingalpa Corridor Confluence Rehab Project
- Improving connectivity, salinity and social amenity, Black Snake Creek, Marburg
- Indooroopilly Scout Group Den Landcare Improvement Project Phase 2
- Kids By The Creek
- Kids By The Creek - Stages 2, 3 and 4
- Lawson—feral pig control on Eurimbula Creek
- 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 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
- Restoring riparian habitat along Yarraman Creek: Reilly Stage 2
- Revegetation of Moggill Creek
- Riparian Protection Works to Reduce Streambank Erosion, Harlin
- 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
- Sustainable grazing management and on-ground works: conserving soils in the Burnett Mary Region
- 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
- Vera Street Community Place, Vera Street, Toowong, Brisbane
- Western Mary Sub-catchments Grazing Landscapes Project
- Wild About Your Creeks
- Witton for Wildlife - midstorey rescue
- Wynnum North Reserve Restoration
- Yarraman Creek Riparian Restoration Stage 4
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 |
| Enoggera Creek |
2010 | Cone | Enoggera Creek |
| Mt Crosby Weir |
1941 | Pool and Weir | Brisbane River |
| Woogaroo Creek Fishway |
2022 | Rock Ramp | Woogaroo Creek |
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 | 4809 | 905 | 530 | 137 | 5714 |
| Animals | 1004 | 48 | 266 | 69 | 1052 |
| Mammals | 106 | 17 | 9 | 15 | 123 |
| Birds | 453 | 14 | 97 | 33 | 467 |
| Reptiles | 132 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 134 |
| Amphibians | 42 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 43 |
| Lobe-finned fishes | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ray-finned fishes | 49 | 12 | 60 | 1 | 61 |
| Cartilaginous fishes | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Insects | 211 | 2 | 69 | 3 | 213 |
| Malacostracans | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Arachnids | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Snails | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bacteria | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Chromists | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Fungi | 1168 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1168 |
| Plants | 2592 | 857 | 264 | 68 | 3449 |
| 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) Brisbane River drainage sub-basin — facts and maps, WetlandInfo website, accessed 13 April 2023. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/facts-maps/sub-basin-brisbane-river/
— Department of Environment and Science