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Click here to find out more on how wetlands are defined.

Soil can be used to define welands.

Lists of species dependent on wetlands for survival.

Start the process of identifying and classifying your wetland here. Click here to view System Definitions to determine whether a wetland is lacustrine, palustrine, estuarine, marine or a spring.

There are a number of ways to classify wetlands. Click here to view how Ramsar, the Directory of Important Wetlands and other authorities classify wetland types. Click here also for the Queensland Wetlands Program’s typologies and Wetland Description tool to further distinguish sub-types of lacustrine and palustrine wetlands.

The wetland conceptual models graphically illustrate and detail the processes, features and components of different wetland types.

These profiles are a tool to help wetland managers identify:

• the social, economic and environmental values of wetlands
• the hydrology and ecology of wetlands
• threats and pressures on wetlands
• management actions that can be taken to conserve or enhance wetland biodiversity and productivity.

The wetland conceptual models graphically illustrate and detail the natural processes, features and components of different wetland types.

These models graphically illustrate the impact stressors such as weeds, pollution, pests and human activities have on different types of wetland ecosystems.

Click here for species information and indicator species lists.

Search by basin, Natural Resource Management region or local government area to find which species of flora and fauna depend on the wetlands in that area for survival.

Maps are available through an interactive online map server or in PDF format.

Answers to FAQs relating to the Queensland Wetlands Program Wetland Mapping project and it’s products.

Click here for an overview of programs, policy and legislation relating to wetlands, and links to policy documents, information on government-led programs and legislation.

Use this tool to search for relevant wetlands legislation, policies and planning instruments.

Request a Map of Referable Areas.

Access wetland rehabilitation guidelines and management plans.

A how-to-guide for rehabilitating wetlands that draws on first-hand experience and expert input.

Practical guides for managing 14 types of wetlands.

Click here to access the Queensland Wetlands Program mapping products.

Find out more about the status of wetland monitoring in Queensland

Soil can be used to define welands.

Lists of species dependent on wetlands for survival.

List of hydrophytes to help identify wetlands.

Click here for lists of Queensland wetlands acknowledged under the international Ramsar convention and national Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia (DIWA). 

Interactive map server WetlandMaps shows RAMSAR and Directory of Iportant Wetland layers.

Click here for an overview of programs, policy and legislation relating to wetlands in Queensland.

Search by basin, NRM region or local government area to find Ramsar or DIWA sites in Queensland.

Click here for links to funding opportunities.

Click here for links to organisations that work on or with wetlands.

Click here to email the relevent section within the Queensland Wetlands Program