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Improving wetlands information for decision making and action
Wetland planning
On-ground activities to protect, manage, rehabilitate and restore wetlands.
Engagement, education, communication and capacity building
Monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement
The development of an updated Reef 2050 Wetlands Strategy incorporated the outcomes of the independent evaluation of the of the 2016-21 Strategy (superseded)
2023
Queensland Wetland Definition Guideline
Methodology
This document provides guidance on the range of wetland definitions used in Queensland, describes the QWP Wetland Definition (Definition), and provides guidance on the interpretation and application of the Definition. This guideline is intended to assist government agencies, landowners, natural resource managers and others wanting to identify whether feature is a wetland for decision making and planning purposes. This guideline will be useful for other activities relating to wetlands, including their delineation, mapping, classification, assessment, and management. This guideline applies to all wetland systems and types in Queensland but may be somewhat restrictive when applied to subterranean systems.
Queensland Wetland Delineation and Mapping Guideline
Methodology
This document provides information on how to apply the QWP Wetland Definition (the Definition) at a property scale to delineate and map the boundary of a wetland including defining its position, shape, and size. This guideline assists government agencies, land managers, natural resource managers, scientists, surveyors, consultants, and others wanting to delineate and map the boundaries of an identified wetland feature for decision-making and planning purposes. In some cases, requirements for development assessment may advise or stipulate the use of this and other guidelines for regulatory purposes. This document is a companion technical guideline accompanying the Queensland Wetlands Definition Guideline.
The classification of wetlands takes an attribute-based approach, identifying and describing physical, biological and chemical attributes of wetlands. The scheme is adaptable and flexible and is based on and complements other attribute-based classification schemes used within Queensland. This document is designed to support consistent, state-wide baseline classification of lacustrine, palustrine, riverine, and some intertidal wetlands above mean sea level across Queensland.
The Interim Queensland River Classification Scheme
Methodology
The Interim Queensland River Classification Scheme provides a standardised approach to describing and categorising the biological, physical and chemical characteristics (attributes) of rivers.
The Queensland Waterhole Classification Scheme was developed to provide a framework for classifying and typing Queensland waterholes. The scheme uses a biophysical framework of physical, environmental and climatic attributes.
2020
State of the Environment Report 2020 for Queensland
Report
The 2020 State of the Environment report is now available on the Department of Science and Heritage website. The Queensland Government produces a State of Environment Report every 2 years. It has been published in a web-based format, providing an interactive experience for users to explore spatial data, text, tables, graphs and charts. Published through the Queensland Government Open Data Portal, the data is presented in themes: Biodiversity, Heritage, Pollution, Climate and Human Settlements and Great Barrier Reef.
2018
De Moleyns Lagoon - stakeholder collaboration leads to successful environmental outcomes
Case Study
De Moleyns Lagoon is an environmentally and culturally important wetland area situated within a floodplain dominated by agriculture. It is home to a large variety of vegetation communities, including the Endangered Regional Ecosystem Melaleuca viridiflora woodland. Local stakeholders have worked together for many years to restore and transform the site to an area which is now a valued natural habitat.
2018
Calliungal Cattle Station Case Study - Managing cattle and wetlands where three rivers meet on the Calliungal floodplain.
Case Study
This case study illustrates how Calliungal Cattle Station's managers have tackled the challenges of floodplain grazing and applied recent technological innovations to achieve sustainable production—while retaining healthy wetlands and biodiversity. It provides information useful to landholders on land subject to major floods, in Queensland.
2020
Queensland Intertidal and Subtidal Ecosystem Classification Scheme
Methodology
The Queensland Intertidal and Subtidal Ecosystem Classification Scheme uses the biological, physical and chemical characteristics of the water column and sea floor to classify intertidal and subtidal ecosystems. The scheme develops a common understanding and language of classification to improve communication and lead to better management outcomes. It provides a structured framework and understanding available for mapping.
The strategy supported the Reef 2050 Long Term Sustainability Plan and the Reef Water Quality Improvement Plan 2013, setting out a framework for the improved management of the wetlands of the Great Barrier Reef catchments. It built on the achievements of the Queensland Wetlands Program and recognised wetlands as vital to the health of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem and its catchments.
This strategy included five themes: improved information; planning; on-ground management; communication and education; and evaluation, review and improvement.
Managers of the five grazing properties that cover Torilla Plain, adjoining Broad Sound in CentralQueensland, have developed productive resilient enterprises for breeding and fattening ofcattle. Wise use of natural pastures on their marine plain is the key.
The groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) handbooks provide consolidated information on where and how groundwater moves through a catchment and where groundwater may interact with ecosystems.
Handbook for groundwater dependent ecosystems in South East Queensland
Groundwater dependent ecosystem mapping: Comet, Dawson and Mackenzie catchments
Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) is a reasonably new approach to urban stormwater quality management.
It is important that local plant selection is given appropriate consideration as a matter of priority.
These Technical Design Guidelines puts forward plant recommendations chosen by a team of horticultural experts. It also contains practical design drawings illustrating how they apply.
To inform the management of river systems consistent with the Murray–Darling Basin Plan, there is a need to understand how long waterholes can persist and how the spatial distribution of persistent waterholes changes as a drought progresses. The waterholes project was commissioned by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority to improve understanding of the location and persistence of waterholes in the Lower Balonne and Barwon–Darling regions of the northern Basin as part of the Northern Basin review. The project was undertaken through the Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation (Queensland) and the Department of Primary Industries, Water (NSW).
This report details the approach taken to assess hazards to lacustrine and palustrine wetlands in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) catchments in Queensland. It provides a landscape scale assessment of hazard (as opposed to fully quantified 'risk') arising from land-use, and is conducted as a desktop GIS analysis.
In particular the assessment aims to:
characterise human induced pressures arising from land-use
enable the attribution of mapped wetlands with a modelled level of hazard.
The Queensland Government encourages the community to suggest new names for geographic features in Queensland that have yet to be officially named.
The place naming process includes consideration of naming issues, provision of recommendations to the relevant Minister under the Place Names Act 1994, publication of notices and maintenance of the gazetteer or register of place names.
Investigates the risks to groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) which may potentially have reliance upon the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) across the Cape York Peninsula.
GDEs support important biodiversity values and they are recognised as particularly important on Cape York Peninsula, where access to groundwater provides a water source to ecosystems during the long dry season. Groundwater on Cape York Peninsula is present in both local surface aquifers, and the larger regional water table of the Great Artesian Basin.
Tony and Mandy Jeppesen, along with sons Ben and Sam, own and manage a cane farm in the Whitsunday region of Queensland. Over the past decade, the Jeppesens have implemented changes across the farm to improve water management.
David and Dianne Hood have been managing the Kirkton property in the Burdekin catchment since 2004 to improve beef production and enhance local wetlands. The property was in poor condition when purchased, partly due to drought, with degraded pastures dominated by weeds. They have been investing in new infrastructure to better manage the herd, allowing wet season spelling and weed control. This has led to improved land condition and better management of frontage country, with benefits to adjoining wetlands.
The Queensland Wetlands Program (Program) has been running for nearly 10 years and has delivered more than 70 projects. There have been three phases of the Program: Phase 1 (2003-2008), the Transitional Phase (2009-2010) and Phase 2 (2010-2013).
An evaluation of Phase 1 was undertaken in 2009 by a non-government agency, while for Phase 2, a smaller management audit has been undertaken by the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (EHP) independently of the Program.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the listing of Moreton Bay under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, (Ramsar Convention), achievements over the past 20 years have been documented. This list highlights some of the incredible effort that has gone into protecting and managing the Moreton Bay Ramsar site.
Beginning in 2011 this study consisted of four surveys of the coastal high tide roosts for shorebirds, and additional aerial and ground surveys of nearby wetlands, north of Ayr. The aim of the study was to provide a detailed assessment of the distribution and abundance of shorebirds and waterbirds in the Bowling Green Bay Ramsar Site.
This case study demonstrates how the Queensland Wetland Program Buffer Planning Guideline has been used to develop a buffer for Lake Broadwater in the Condamine-Balonne catchment of the Murray-Darling basin.
Boosting the capacity to optimise ground cover and grazing business outcomes by subdividing paddocks into many smaller units, each served by off-stream watering points. Environmental benefits include reduced soil erosion and improved condition of the riparian zone.
Complementary strategies to manage water and animals in grazing enterprise. By increasing control of flowing water and livestock habits, benefits have occurred for sustainable production, biodiversity and the condition of riverine and other wetland systems.
These guidelines have been produced for use by landholders engaged in grazing and dryland cropping in two inland river basins of Queensland: the Queensland Murray-Darling and the Bulloo. Most of the material is applicable much more widely across inland regions of Queensland and Australia generally.
It outlines a step-by-step process for preparing a wetland management plan and a template (model) is provided allowing landholders and other wetland managers to easily insert the necessary information into an appropriate format.
The 'Walking the landscape' framework integrates existing data with expert knowledge to develop a whole-of-system map linked to conceptual models showing how the environment functions. The method addresses one of the major criticisms of broadscale mapping—the lack of integration of knowledge from local experts into datasets used by decision makers.
The connectivity framework describes a process for systematically and transparently working through the connectivity of relevant functions of an aquatic ecosystem, and provides a way of understanding and applying connectivity at any level of spatial scale for any management outcome.
The framework was developed through expert workshops involving policy makers and scientists from a wide range of disciplines from state, local and federal government bodies and universities.
The project was undertaken as part of the Queensland Wetlands Program – Phase 2. The project collected and collated data for 62 wetlands. The wetland sites were predominantly freshwater non-riverine wetlands with five riverine wetlands sampled opportunistically. The data was used to identify and classify areas of high conservation value.
Provides the steps for designing a wetland buffer and identifies its benefits and future management needs.
Use this guideline in palustrine, lacustrine, estuarine and marine wetland systems. The concepts behind the method can also be used for buffers around riverine and artificial wetlands. Using the guideline requires expert knowledge of wetlands.
An important tool to support users who want to meet the requirements of the State Planning Policy Protecting Wetlands of a High Ecological Significance in Great Barrier Reef Catchments. However it does not over-ride legislative requirements.
Developed to provide graziers, landowners and extension officers with information on managing grazing in and around Queensland's coastal wetlands to maintain healthy coastal wetlands and productive grazing enterprises.
It provides practical advice on how grazing and associated land management practices can be implemented to support the long-term health of coastal wetlands whilst maintaining production.
Reports on the Indicator of Reduction in Soils (IRIS) method for identifying wetlands and demonstrates how to use the method on wetlands in Queensland. Field indicators of ephemeral wetlands can be hard to find in dry times. Wetland soils—identified by reducing conditions—become a major indicator of existence and extent.
The IRIS method uses synthetic iron oxides to indicate anaerobic conditions in soils to indicate the presence of wetlands. Wetland managers and decision makers may use the IRIS method as an additional line of evidence to identify wetland extent.
Developed to help users use the Hydro-climate tool—interactive tool that relates stream discharge, rainfall and run-off to the Queensland wetland mapping images.
Describes the method behind the development of the associated interactive tool that relates zonal discharge and rainfall to the imagery used as a base for the Queensland wetland mapping. The tool provides a historical context to how the maximum extent of the wetlands and the water regime ratings were determined.
The information may also be used for the evaluation of the circumstances that lead to wetland filling and the changes in wetland filling processes for different wetland types. This is important for wetland assessment and management of wetlands at a subregional scale.
Vibrant, easy-to-understand illustrated guides to selected individual wetlands in Queensland. They offer site-specific, science in the form of conceptual models and text to support and inform management and cover a wide variety of wetland issues and types. The technique used for developing the conceptual models can be implemented by local wetland managers anywhere in Queensland.
The Inventory of Instream Structures program demonstrates the impacts of structures which threaten the health of local fish populations that support important recreational and commercial fisheries and associated wetland functions. The guidelines and report feature a Response Action Plan (RAP) that nominates specific recommendations actions to protect wetland values.
Queensland Spatial Catalogue provides a GIS layer of instream structures associated with the inventory reports and is downloadable by searching for "Queensland Fish Habitat Area Instream Structure Inventory Data" including the quotes.
Please note: the findings of the above reports are current at time of publication. Given the dynamic nature of the environment, the status of instream structures and identified issues will require review before implementing management recommendations.
2010
Queensland Wetland Definition and Delineation Guideline Part A and Part B
Guideline
Comprises two parts.
Part A is a guide to existing wetland definitions and how to apply the Queensland Wetlands Program wetland definition.
Waterhole refugia play a vital role in many river systems, allowing aquatic taxa to survive periods when there is no flow and surface water availability is limited. An understanding of the role and function of refugial waterholes is necessary to best manage these habitats, and ensure that risk to waterhole-dwelling biota is minimised. In order to maintain viable regional populations of biota, refugia must be able to support both the resistance and resilience of local populations. This requires the persistence of good-quality waterhole habitats for the duration of dry spells, as well as connectivity between them during flows. A number of investigations on the themes of persistence, quality and connectivity, to provide knowledge for decision-making.
Contains information and guidelines to help producers and extension officers protect the functions of Queensland’s wetlands in intensive agricultural production systems. The Handbook follows the Farm Management System approach to managing agricultural businesses.
The Handbook provides for all aspects of best practice wetlands management in intensive agricultural operations and covers such topics as nutrient, erosion and sediment management; spray-drift management; management for fisheries values; and weed and pest animal management. It also contains a component on constructed wetlands design.
An independent evaluation of the first phase of the Queensland Wetlands Program (2003-2009) in 2009.
The evaluation, conducted by Halcrow Pacific Pty Ltd and Institute of Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, was to determine the Program’s effectiveness in meeting its aim and project objectives.
The Program aim is to support projects that will result in long-term benefits to the sustainable use, management, conservation and protection of Queensland wetlands.
The evaluation looked at the Program’s five focus areas:
improving the wetland information base
wetland planning arrangements
on-ground activities to protect and rehabilitate wetlands
education and capacity building
communication, monitoring, evaluation and reporting and review.
Developed to assist wetland managers including landholders, local councils and Natural Resource Management bodies to undertake effective wetland rehabilitation. The guidelines draw on existing research and experience including works undertaken in the Queensland.
Produced under the Great Barrier Reef Queensland Wetlands Program, Wetland Care Australia was commissioned, by the Australian Government.
Details and discusses findings of a statewide assessment of wetland soil indicators conducted by the Department of Natural Resources and Water during 2007 and 2008 under the Queensland Wetlands Program (QWP). The definition developed through the QWP is based on the Ramsar definition and includes a component on wetland soil features. To be useful at a finer scale, this definition needs a scientifically robust method for applying wetland soil indicators. This study concludes that the formation of soil indicators in Queensland is influenced greatly by climatic region (tropical/equatorial, subtropical, semiarid and arid), wetland system (palustrine, lacustrine and estuarine) and by inundation frequency (periodically or commonly wet).
To help reduce the challenges of accessing wetland science the Queensland Wetlands Program with the Department of Natural Resources and Mines developed a report that focuses on:
information relating to causal relationships between wetlands and Great Barrier Reef water quality
research on how wetland ecosystems function
research on the role wetlands play in landscape processes—in particular the improvement of downstream water quality
research assessing the ‘health’ of wetlands in an ecological context; and the implications of research for the protection, management and restoration of degraded wetlands.
Soils are potentially powerful indicators of wetland dynamics because of the specific morphological features that develop in wet environments. This review of national and international scientific literature evaluates the ability of indicators often found within soils to reliably predict wetland boundaries. Thereport highlights two case studies of wetlands within Southern and Central Queensland to test if predictable relationships exist between soil indicators identified within the literature and wetland status for Queensland wetland soils.
Review of relevant national and international literature on wetland condition and extent indicators and methodology as they relate to monitoring. It provides a scoping study to help determine appropriate resource condition indicators and methodologies for wetland monitoring for different wetland types, including a set of national indicators. The Report identifies existing monitoring programs and highlights areas where monitoring is deficient for Inventory Database requirements (temporal and spatial). It also identifies resource condition parameters for inclusion in the Wetlands Inventory Database, criteria for resource condition monitoring, makes recommendations for developing conceptual understandings of wetland types, and consolidates links to other Queensland Wetlands Program projects.
In 2007, an independent review was undertaken to analyse how wetland activities aligned between regional bodies and the objectives of the QWP.
It contains detailed regional profiles for each of the 14 natural resource management regions of Queensland with each profile identifying key achievements, wetland activities and future directions.
The review concluded that many of the regional body wetland activities were contributing to the QWP objectives and were complemented and supported by the products from the QWP.
The Report evaluates the GBR Coastal Wetland Protection Programme including a description of achievements against objectives, an evaluation of the success of the pilot programme, and the appropriateness of approaches used.
The purpose of this study was to provide recommendations to the Australian Government on an appropriate mix of incentives to increase sustainable land management practices on freehold and leasehold land, particularly with reference to wetland areas in the Great Barrier Reef catchment NRM regions. The study consists of three separate but linked investigations
22 case studies based on the Great Barrier Reef Coastal Wetlands Protection Program Pilot Program commissioned by the Australian Government to deliver on-ground actions for the sustainable management of 22 priority wetlands in the Great Barrier Reef catchment.
Conceptual model case studies for selected wetlands in Queensland. Site-specific information and science on a wide variety of wetland issues. Informs and supports management. The technique used for developing the conceptual models can be implemented by local wetland managers anywhere in Queensland.
This National Marine Natural Resource Management Plan 2023-2028 has been developed by OceanWatch, in collaboration with a variety of marine stakeholders, to guide NRM investment for the next five years.
The aim of the Standard is to increase demand for Nature-based solutions while safeguarding people and nature thus bringing about positive sustainable change.
The blue carbon method enables Australian carbon credit units (ACCUs) to be earned by projects that remove or modify tidal restriction mechanisms and allow tidal flow to be introduced to an area of land.
These guidelines provide evidence-based advice for maintaining and managing natural or artificial (i.e. human-created) coastal wetlands to provide suitable high tide roosting conditions for shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.
Describes common problems and issues that have plagued the field of coral restoration, and provide suggestions and recommendations for future coral restoration projects worldwide.
This guide is for practitioners, managers and community members to provide both guidance in decision-making for establishing shellfish reef restoration projects and examples of different approaches undertaken by experienced practitioners in a variety of geographic, environmental and social settings.
Riparian and stream bank management
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The Riparian Zone Estimator Tool (RipZET) is a decision support tool, developed in California, to assist in the visualization and characterization of riparian areas.
Riparian Land Management Technical GuidelinesWEBID-0181WEBID-0180:
This handbook was developed as a result of a workshop in China in early 2018. The handbook's purpose is to provide guidance when it comes to the design, planning, management and/or construction of urban wetlands.
The 5 sections and 28 chapters throughout the eBook explain practical information for managing both freshwater and estuarine wetlands in urban Australia.
National Water Quality website, links to water quality guidelines, related water quality projects and initiatives, water quality planning and information on issues affecting water quality.
This review is concerned with deliberate or planned change of vegetation from one state to another, a process that is here called recovery but which refers to activities such as restoration, rehabilitation and repair. The aim is to present a useful and accessible summary of ecological understanding about wetland vegetation recovery, as it relates to Australia. This is an essential step in the development of scientifically sound tools that will assist wetland practitioners to be more effective in restoring wetland vegetation.
Plant guides
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User friendly illustrated field guide that offers comprehensive information on the wetland plants of the area.
The strategy supports the The Reef 2050 Long Term Sustainability Plan and the Reef Water Quality Improvement Plan 2013, setting out a framework for the improved management of the wetlands of the Great Barrier Reef catchments. It builds on the achievements of the Queensland Wetlands Program and recognises wetlands as vital to the health of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem and its catchments.
This strategy includes five themes: improved information; planning; on-ground management; communication and education; and evaluation, review and improvement.
Erosion and sediment control (ESC) on construction sites. The State Planning Policy and Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (SPA) regulate future planning and development and development approvals should include provisions relating to construction and operation of developments.
Explains how satellite images are used to represent inundation in the development of wetland mapping.
Information can be used to guide ecological assessments and aquatic connectivity studies. It provides a selection of imagery, based on inundation extents.
Qld Herbarium report showing the change in extent between Mangrove and associated communities of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. An interactive map viewer that uses a swipe map to show the changes in extent of mangrove and associated communities of Moreton Bay is also available.
A descriptive account of the mangrove vegetation and a series of 10 maps at a scale of 1:25 000 prepared for the area from Caloundra to Southport on the southern Queensland coast.
A survey of the coastal wetlands vegetation communities and to produce maps of the vegetation communities subject to coastal influence for south-east Queensland from the boundary of Noosa Shire and Maroochy Shire in the north to the Queensland-New South Wales border in the south.
As an integral part of the Great Barrier Reef Biodiversity Conservation Strategy 2013, vulnerability assessments are being undertaken on habitats, species and groups of species identified as being potentially at risk. These assessments will help inform the strategy's management priorities.
The project adopts a generic approach allowing the framework to be transferred to other wetlands, including Ramsar listed wetlands, supplied by rivers ranging from highly regulated to free flowing. The integration of management with science allows key indicators to be monitored that will inform management and promote increasingly informed decisions. The project involved a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and managers working on one of the more difficult challenges for Australia, exacerbated by increasing impacts of climate change on flows and inundation patterns.
The guides chapters include Planning for riverwetland management; Understanding wetlands; Managing wetlands; Monitoring wetlands; and Protecting wetlands
This report works towards a key objective of the Reef Water Quality Protection Plan to reduce the amounts of nutrients and herbicides entering the Reef. It provides an up-to-date review and synthesis of current knowledge of groundwater transport of nutrients and herbicides to the Reef, from aquifers across the Wet Tropics, Lower Burdekin and Mackay–Whitsunday areas.
This handbook provides advice on the management of flooding within the floodplains and catchments of waterways.
It aims to provide advice to those with roles in understanding and managing flood risk and its consequences on the community. This may include emergency management practitioners, flood risk managers, land-use planners, engineers, hydrologists, infrastructure providers, and policy and decision makers, within government and the broader industry. It aims to inform national best practice, and State and Territory guidance.
The project was undertaken as part of the Queensland Wetlands Program – Phase 2. The project collected and collated data for 62 wetlands. The wetland sites were predominantly freshwater non-riverine wetlands with five riverine wetlands sampled opportunistically. The data was used to identify and classify areas of high conservation value.
Assists local governments in South East Queensland to manage waterbodies. The guideline was commissioned by Redland City Council and speaks to all departments and disciplines within local government involved in managing waterbodies.
Contains information and guidelines to help producers and extension officers manage Queensland’s wetlands in intensive agricultural production systems. Follows the Farm Management System approach to managing agricultural businesses
Covers such topics as nutrient, erosion and sediment management; spray-drift management; management for fisheries values; weed and pest animal management and constructed wetlands design
Queensland Wetland Definition and Delineation Guideline
Use in palustrine, lacustrine, estuarine and marine wetland systems. Also suitable for buffers around riverine and artificial wetlands. Targeted at those with expert knowledge of wetlands
Developed to assist wetland managers, landholders, local government and Natural Resource Management bodies to undertake effective wetland rehabilitation. Incorporates existing research and experience including works undertaken in Queensland
Although developed for the Great Barrier Reef area principles and ideas can be applied more broadly
Produced for landholders engaged in grazing and dryland cropping in 2 of Queensland’s inland river basins, the Queensland Murray-Darling and the Bulloo
Wetlands in Queensland have been classified into types. Conceptual models describe the current scientific understanding of the ecology and the components and processes that characterise these wetland types.
These models can be used to inform management and underpin research and monitoring.
The connectivity framework describes a process for systematically and transparently working through the connectivity of relevant functions of an aquatic ecosystem, and provides a way of understanding and applying connectivity at any level of spatial scale for any management outcome.
The 'Walking the landscape' framework integrates existing data with expert knowledge to develop a whole-of-system map linked to conceptual models showing how the environment functions. The method addresses one of the major criticisms of broadscale mapping—the lack of integration of knowledge from local experts into datasets used by decision makers.
Planting Wetlands and Dams
A Practical Guide to Wetland Design, Construction and Propagation
This paper examines the triple bottom line (economic, social and environmental) factors that influence decision making with respect to urban stream rehabilitation and management and considers their relative value and importance.
A practical guide to best practice techniques to minimise stormwater pollution from building sites by the International Erosion Control Association (IECA) and Catchments and Creeks Pty Ltd
This fact sheet series focuses specifically on water quality initiatives that can be done on the “edge of block” to further improve the quality of water leaving the farm.
The fact sheets relate to the SEQ Catchment’s area, from Noosa in the north, west to Toowoomba, and south to the New South Wales border. The fact sheets are designed to provide information for students, teachers and anyone seeking information about the area.
Promotes the values of the wetlands in the catchments of the Great Barrier Reef. It recognises wetlands as part of the broader landscape connecting catchments to the Reef and promotes the wise management of wetlands as they are vital for protecting the world recognised values of the Great Barrier Reef. It encourages working in partnership with landowners to achieve the best outcomes as many wetlands are located on private property.
Ramsar fact sheets—a wetland of international importance
A series of fact sheets on Queensland’s Ramsar sites—wetlands of international significance. These fact sheets provide information on the individual sites, their location, and ecological and cultural values.
Designed to provide information about the distribution, ecology, cultural values, conservation status, and threats to and management of particular wetland types and wetland regional ecosystems (REs) within Queensland.
Developed before the Queensland Wetlands Program existed so there are differences in the typology used to classify the wetlands e.g. floodplains are not considered wetlands under the Queensland Wetlands Program wetland definition, although are important to the function of some wetlands
An extensive set of pages has been developed synthesising best practice approaches to treatment systems for improving water quality, including conceptual models, diagrams and photos. This work was developed through the Queensland Wetlands Program by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Department of Environment and Science and reviewed by numerous technical experts and regional officers. It has a current focus on treatment systems for agricultural settings.
The management and rehabilitation of wetlands can be undertaken for a range of reasons. The Site Management and Rehabilitation page focuses on site management and rehabilitation by providing a generic, best practice approach.
The Australian Coastal Restoration Network is a platform to connect coastal specialists, experts, researchers, practitioners and managers so that they can collaborate, share knowledge and ideas, and seek answers and solutions to challenges.
The Seagrass Restoration Network (SRN) Australasia links scientists, industry practitioners, community and government policy makers for an up to date look at the development and implementation of conservation, recovery and restoration of seagrass meadows.
The Shellfish Reef Restoration Network is a community of restoration practitioners, researchers, educators and general shellfish enthusiasts that are raising awareness and advocating for shellfish reef restoration in Australia.
The Mangrove Hub conducts world-leading research into mangrove and tidal wetland ecosystems. The Mangrove Hub is equipped with extensive libraries of published articles on mangrove and tidal wetlands, aerial photographic imagery and methodologies for mangrove research and monitoring.
The project 'Best Practice Coral Restoration for the Great Barrier Reef' is funded by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP), and is a collaboration between James Cook University and Reef Ecologic. Researchers at James Cook University are working with coral reef experts from around the world in a project which aims to provide advice on best practice coral restoration for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR).
Learn about observed climate change in Australia, explore regional climate change predictions, read about regional impacts and access reports and other publications.
The Australian Government’s Bioregional Assessment Programme provides transparent scientific information to better understand the potential impacts of coal seam gas and coal mining developments on water resources and water-dependent assets such as wetlands and groundwater bores.
Training, events, tools, fact sheets, reports, guidelines and more
Last updated: 4 July 2017
This page should be cited as:
Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2017) User defined wetlands fact sheet, WetlandInfo website, accessed 30 August 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/resources/user-fact-sheet/
— Department of Environment, Science and Innovation