Whitsunday LGA - wetland summary information

Area profile

Name:	Whitsunday
Area type:	local government area
Total area:	23,826.23 km² (excluding marine area)
% total Queensland area:	1.4%
Major towns:	Bowen, Collinsville, Proserpine, Whitsunday
Basins:	Burdekin Don O'Connell Proserpine Whitsunday Island
NRM bodies:	NQ Dry Tropics Reef Catchments
Drainage divisions:	North East Coast
Climatic zones:	Grassland Subtropical Tropical
Bioregions:	Brigalow Belt (BRB) Central Queensland Coast (CQC) Einasleigh Uplands (EIU)
World heritage areas:	Great Barrier Reef
Internationally important wetlands (Ramsar)	none
Nationally important wetlands (DIWA)	Abbot Point - Caley Valley Bowen River: Birralee - Pelican Creek Broken River, Urannah Creek and Massey Creek Aggregation Burdekin Delta Burdekin-Bowen Junction and Blue Valley Weir Aggregation Edgecumbe Bay Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Junction of the Bogie River and Kirknie Creek Aggregation Lake Dalrymple Proserpine - Goorganga Plain Scartwater Aggregation Southern Upstart Bay Why Not Aggregation
Protected areas:	Total number: 23 Abbott Bay Resources Reserve Andromache Conservation Park Andromache Forest Reserve Andromache State Forest Cape Upstart National Park Cathu State Forest Conway Conservation Park Conway National Park Conway National Park (Recovery) Conway West Conservation Park Dryander Forest Reserve Dryander National Park Dryander State Forest Gloucester Island National Park Holbourne Island National Park Macartney State Forest Molle Islands National Park Mount Abbot National Park (Scientific) Mount Aberdeen National Park Proserpine State Forest Repulse Islands National Park Sonoma State Forest Whitsunday Islands National Park
Fish habitat areas:	Burdekin Edgecumbe Bay Repulse
Coastal management district:	Yes (all have been combined since February 2012)
Nature refuges:	Total number: 13 Aberdeen Nature Refuge Beefalo Valley Nature Refuge Blackjack Mountain Nature Refuge Dryander Creek Nature Refuge Flagstone Nature Refuge Hells Gate Nature Refuge Homehaven Nature Refuge Mount Pleasant Nature Refuge Mount Proserpine Nature Refuge Newlands Nature Refuge Norman Nature Refuge Petrogale Nature Refuge Rhondan Valley Nature Refuge
Wild rivers:	none
Wetland management profiles:	Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain lakes and non-floodplain soil lakes Coastal and sub-coastal tree swamps Coastal grass-sedge wetlands Mangrove wetlands Saltmarsh wetlands
Water resource planning areas:	Burdekin Whitsunday
Water quality, water quantity and aquatic ecosystem monitoring programs:	Aerial Surveys of Waterbirds in Eastern Australia Environmental Flows Assessment Program Groundwater Water Level Network Surface Water Monitoring Network
Wetland soil information sheets:	Goorganga - lagoon Goorganga - swamp Goorganga - tidal flat
Great Barrier Reef case studies:	Goorganga
Conceptual model case studies:	none
Related legislation/policies

External links/description

Queensland Local Government Directory - Whitsunday

Queensland Government: Whitsunday Regional Council

Historical LGA links:

Queensland Government: Bowen Shire

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.

Whitsunday 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	1,158.22	100.0%	4.9%
Artificial and highly modified	214.30	18.5%	0.9%
Estuarine	278.39	24.0%	1.2%
Lacustrine	2.51	0.2%	0.0%
Palustrine	110.17	9.5%	0.5%
Riverine	552.84	47.7%	2.3%

There are approximately 822 lacustrine/palustrine wetlands in this region.

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Wildlife recorded from Whitsunday LGA
Kingdom Class	Native	Introduced	Wetland indicator species	Rare or threatened species	All
TOTAL	3424	414	285	51	3886
Animals	741	28	140	31	774
Amphibians	30	1	14	0	31
Birds	401	10	85	12	413
Bony fish	15	1	18	0	18
Cartilaginous fishes	1	0	1	0	1
Insects	50	0	0	0	50
Mammals	99	15	8	10	114
Reptiles	144	1	14	9	146
Uncertain	1	0	0	0	1
Fungi	48	0	0	0	48
Plants	2491	386	144	20	2920
Protists	144	0	1	0	144

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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