Townsville LGA - wetland summary information

Area profile

Name:	Townsville
Area type:	local government area
Total area:	3,725.88 km² (excluding marine area)
% total Queensland area:	0.2%
Major towns:	Townsville
Basins:	Black Burdekin Haughton Herbert Ross
NRM bodies:	NQ Dry Tropics Terrain NRM
Drainage divisions:	North East Coast
Climatic zones:	Grassland Subtropical Tropical
Bioregions:	Brigalow Belt (BRB) Einasleigh Uplands (EIU) Wet Tropics (WET)
World heritage areas:	Great Barrier Reef Wet Tropics of Queensland
Internationally important wetlands (Ramsar)	Bowling Green Bay
Nationally important wetlands (DIWA)	Birthday Creek Bowling Green Bay Burdekin - Townsville Coastal Aggregation Great Barrier Reef Marine Park RAAF Townsville Ross River Reservoir The Serpentine Aggregation Wongaloo Fans Aggregation Wongaloo Swamps Aggregation
Protected areas:	Total number: 15 Bolger Bay Conservation Park Bowling Green Bay Conservation Park Bowling Green Bay National Park Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park Clemant State Forest Horseshoe Bay Lagoon Conservation Park Magnetic Island National Park Mingela State Forest Mount Cataract Forest Reserve Mount Flagstone Forest Reserve Paluma Range National Park Paluma Range Resources Reserve Paluma State Forest Pinnacles National Park Townsville Town Common Conservation Park
Fish habitat areas:	Bohle River Bowling Green Bay Cleveland Bay
Coastal management district:	Yes (all have been combined since February 2012)
Nature refuges:	Total number: 6 Bolger Bay Nature Refuge Endeavour Creek Nature Refuge Horseshoe Bay Nature Refuge Serpentine Nature Refuge Stuart Creek Nature Refuge Upper Sleeper Log Creek Nature Refuge
Wild rivers:	none
Wetland management profiles:	Arid swamps Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain lakes and non-floodplain soil lakes Coastal and sub-coastal tree swamps Coastal grass-sedge wetlands Karst wetlands Mangrove wetlands Saltmarsh wetlands Semi-arid swamps
Water resource planning areas:	Burdekin
Water quality, water quantity and aquatic ecosystem monitoring programs:	Aerial Surveys of Waterbirds in Eastern Australia Black Ross (Townsville) Water Quality Improvement Plan Event Monitoring Creek to Coral Community Monitoring Environmental Flows Assessment Program Framework for the Assessment of River and Wetland Health (FARWH) – Queensland trials Groundwater Water Level Network Surface Water Monitoring Network The Lakes Environmental and Ecosystem Health
Wetland soil information sheets:	none
Great Barrier Reef case studies:	Cungulla Thuringowa
Conceptual model case studies:	none
Related legislation/policies

External links/description

Queensland Local Government Directory - Townsville

Queensland Government: Townsville City Council

Statistics

Statistics based on 2009 wetland mapping (version 3.0)

The mapping is available as: PDFs, KMLs (able to be viewed on Google Earth and similar), on the interactive map server WetlandMaps and as data downloadable via the Queensland Government Information Service.

Townsville LGA wetland area by system
Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation (e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).
System	Area (km²)	% wetlands area	% total area
Total	378.88	100.0%	10.2%
Artificial and highly modified	67.24	17.7%	1.8%
Estuarine	152.97	40.4%	4.1%
Lacustrine	1.11	0.3%	0.0%
Palustrine	42.94	11.3%	1.2%
Riverine	114.61	30.2%	3.1%

There are approximately 417 lacustrine/palustrine wetlands in this region.

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Wildlife recorded from Townsville LGA
Kingdom Class	Native	Introduced	Wetland indicator species	Rare or threatened species	All
TOTAL	2975	346	310	59	3365
Animals	826	28	184	43	870
Amphibians	38	1	16	3	39
Birds	430	9	89	17	454
Bony fish	40	4	45	0	45
Cartilaginous fishes	2	0	2	0	2
Insects	38	0	0	0	38
Mammals	110	12	7	13	122
Reptiles	167	2	25	10	169
Uncertain	1	0	0	0	1
Fungi	35	0	0	0	35
Plants	2017	318	124	16	2363
Protists	97	0	2	0	97

Note: Wildlife statistics are based on information that has been submitted to the DERM WildNet database.
Information from WildNet can also be accessed via Wildlife Online and WetlandMaps.

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