NRM body: South West NRM - wetland summary information

Area profile

Name:	South West NRM
Area type:	natural resource management body
Total area:	187,147.69 km²
% total Queensland area:	10.8%
Major towns:	Augathella, Charleville, Cunnamulla, Quilpie, Thargomindah
Basins:	Balonne-Condamine Bulloo Paroo Warrego
Local government areas:	Balonne Blackall Tambo Bulloo Central Highlands Longreach Maranoa Murweh Paroo Quilpie
Drainage divisions:	Bulloo Murray Darling
Climatic zones:	Desert Grassland Subtropical Temperate
Bioregions:	Brigalow Belt (BRB) Channel Country (CHC) Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD) Mulga Lands (MUL)
World heritage areas:	none
Internationally important wetlands (Ramsar)	Currawinya Lakes
Nationally important wetlands (DIWA)	"Murrawondah" Lakes "Myola"-"Mulga Downs" Salt Lake and Claypans "Old Bando" Swamp Bulloo Lake Eulo Artesian Springs Supergroup Lake Bullawarra Lake Dartmouth Area Lake Numalla Aggregation Lake Wombah-Kungie Lake Group Lake Wyara Lakes Bindegolly and Toomaroo Nooyeah Downs Swamps Aggregation Paroo River Waterholes ("Caiwarro" Area) Quilpie (Bulloo River Floodplain) Waterholes Warrego River Distributary System Warrego River Waterholes (Charleville-Wyandra Wyandra-Cunnamulla Claypans Aggregation
Protected areas:	Total number: 20 Albany State Forest Attica State Forest Binya National Park Carnarvon National Park Chesterton Range National Park Chesterton State Forest Culgoa Floodplain National Park Cunno State Forest Currawinya National Park Idalia National Park Koolbellup State Forest Lake Bindegolly National Park Mariala National Park Morven Conservation Park Narkoola National Park Narkoola National Park (Recovery) Orkadilla State Forest Pluto Timber Reserve Thrushton National Park Tregole National Park
Fish habitat areas:	none
Coastal management district:	none
Nature refuges:	Total number: 11 Carnarvon Station Nature Refuge Castlevale Nature Refuge Cobbrum Lake Nature Refuge Dead Sea Springs Nature Refuge Eversfield Station Nature Refuge Gilmore Nature Refuge Illmargani Nature Refuge Jamba Dhandan Duringala Nature Refuge Lake Dartmouth Nature Refuge Mud Springs Nature Refuge Orkadilla Nature Refuge
Wild rivers:	none
Wetland management profiles:	Arid and semi-arid lakes Arid swamps Coastal and sub-coastal tree swamps Coastal and sub-coastal wet heath swamps Coastal grass-sedge wetlands Great Artesian Basin spring wetlands Semi-arid swamps
Water resource planning areas:	Bulloo Nebine Paroo Warrego
Water quality, water quantity and aquatic ecosystem monitoring programs:	Aerial Surveys of Waterbirds in Eastern Australia Environmental Flows Assessment Program Fitzroy Priority Neighbourhood Catchments Water Quality Monitoring Program Groundwater Water Level Network Port Curtis Integrated Monitoring Program (PCIMP) Surface Water Monitoring Network
Wetland soil information sheets:	Lake Bindegolly Lake Dartmouth Lake Kapoonyee Lake Numalla Lake Woombah Lake Wyara Murrawondah - lake Wyandra - claypan
Great Barrier Reef case studies:	none
Conceptual model case studies:	Eulo springs super-group
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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.

NRM body: South West NRM 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	4,999.00	100.0%	2.7%
Artificial and highly modified	42.52	0.9%	0.0%
Lacustrine	670.42	13.4%	0.4%
Palustrine	3,697.54	74.0%	2.0%
Riverine	588.52	11.8%	0.3%

There are approximately 10,733 lacustrine/palustrine wetlands in this region.

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Wildlife recorded from NRM body: South West NRM
Kingdom Class	Native	Introduced	Wetland indicator species	Rare or threatened species	All
TOTAL	2622	273	196	62	2926
Animals	611	22	105	31	644
Amphibians	24	1	13	0	25
Birds	338	6	64	17	354
Bony fish	18	3	21	2	21
Insects	12	0	0	1	12
Malacostracans	1	0	0	0	1
Mammals	76	12	1	8	89
Reptiles	141	0	6	3	141
Uncertain	1	0	0	0	1
Fungi	84	0	0	0	84
Plants	1922	251	89	31	2193
Protists	5	0	2	0	5

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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