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Baffle Basin - Wetland Summary Information
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Area Profile:

Name: Baffle
Area Type: Basin
Total Area: 4,083.56 km²
Major Towns: Miriam Vale
Drainage Divisions:
  • North East Coast
Climate Zones:
  • Subtropical
Bioregions:
Intersecting Areas:
Local government areas
NRM regions
World Heritage Areas:
Internationally Important
Wetlands (Ramsar)		 none
Nationally Important
Wetlands (DIWA)
Protected Areas:
Total number: 25   
  • Arthurs Seat State Forest
  • Baffle Creek Conservation Park
  • Bottle Creek Conservation Park
  • Broadwater Conservation Park
  • Bulburin National Park
  • Bulburin State Forest
  • Bustard Head Conservation Park
  • Castle Tower National Park
  • Deepwater National Park
  • Eurimbula Conservation Park
  • Eurimbula National Park
  • Eurimbula Resources Reserve
  • Joseph Banks (Round Hill Head) Conservation Park
  • Littabella Forest Reserve
  • Littabella National Park
  • Monduran State Forest 1
  • Mount Colosseum National Park
  • Mount Coulston State Forest
  • Mount Stanley State Forest 2
  • Mouth Of Baffle Creek Conservation Park 1
  • Mouth Of Baffle Creek Conservation Park 2
  • Warro National Park
  • Watalgan State Forest
  • Wild Cattle Island National Park
  • Yandaran State Forest
Fish Habitat Areas:
  • Baffle Creek
  • Colosseum Inlet
  • Eurimbula
  • Kolan River
  • Rodds Bay
  • Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill
Completed Regional Coastal Plans:
Coastal Management Districts:
Nature Refuges:
  • Geoglen Nature Refuge
  • Glider Gully Nature Refuge
  • Koolkuna Nature Refuge
  • Reedy Creek Nature Refuge
  • Woodside Nature Refuge
Wild Rivers: none
Wetland Management Profiles:
  • Coastal Dune Lakes
  • Coastal Grass-Sedge Wetlands
  • Coastal Melaleuca Swamp Wetlands
  • Coastal Wet Heath/Sedgeland Wetlands
  • Mangrove Wetlands
  • Saltmarsh Wetlands
Water Resource Planning Areas:
Water Quality Sampling:
Number of current sites: 5
Number of historical sites: 3

External Links / Description:

Additional information may be available via the Intersecting Areas listed above.

Statistics:

Non-Marine Wetland System Summary for Baffle Basin
System # Wetlands Area (km²) % Wetlands Area % Total Area
Total non-marine 1506 342.57 100.0% 8.4%
Estuarine 290 162.78 47.5% 4.0%
Lacustrine 406 7.99 2.3% 0.2%
Combined Lacustrine/Palustrine 4 1.94 0.6% 0.0%
Palustrine 445 101.30 29.6% 2.5%
Riverine 361 68.56 20.0% 1.7%

Wildlife:

Wildlife recorded from Baffle Basin
Kingdom
Class
 Native Introduced Wetland
Indicator
species		 Rare or
Threatened
species		 All
TOTAL 2133 181 196 70 2315
Animals 514 16 85 35 531
Amphibians 35 1 15 2 36
Birds 298 4 63 21 303
Bony fish 32 1 0 0 33
Mammals 69 10 2 6 79
Reptiles 80 0 5 6 80
Fungi 16 0 0 0 16
Plants 1597 165 110 35 1762
Protists 6 0 1 0 6

Note: Wildlife statistics are based on information that has been submitted to the EPA WildNet database.

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