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Mary Basin - Wetland Summary Information

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Area Profile:

Name: Mary
Area Type: Basin
Total Area: 9,460.75 km²
Major Towns: Cooroy, Gympie, Maryborough
Drainage Divisions:
  • North East Coast
Climate Zones:
  • Subtropical
  • Temperate
Bioregions:
Intersecting Areas:
World Heritage Areas: none
Internationally Important
Wetlands (Ramsar)
Nationally Important
Wetlands (DIWA)
Protected Areas:
Total number: 107   
Fish Habitat Areas:
  • Maaroom
  • Susan River
Completed Regional Coastal Plans:
  • Wide Bay Coast
Coastal Management Districts: none
Nature Refuges:
  • Bariya Nature Refuge
  • Braehead Nature Refuge
  • Burrawingee Nature Refuge
  • Dilkusha Nature Refuge
  • Egerton Nature Refuge
  • Greene Dale Nature Refuge
  • Gudjela Nature Refuge
  • Hanging Rock Creek Nature Refuge
  • Hughes Nature Refuge
  • Jilumbar Nature Refuge
  • Manduka Cooperative Nature Refuge
  • Mount Monty Rainforest Nature Refuge
  • Ramaz Nature Refuge
  • Tandora Nature Refuge
  • Tandora Wetland Nature Refuge
  • Wurraglen Nature Refuge
Wild Rivers: none
Wetland Management Profiles:
  • 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: 10
Number of historical sites: 3

External Links / Description:

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

Statistics:

Statistics are not yet available for this area.

Wildlife:

Wildlife recorded from Mary Basin
Kingdom
Class
Native Introduced Wetland
Indicator
species
Rare or
Threatened
species
All
TOTAL 2919 418 208 144 3341
Animals 703 26 90 71 733
Amphibians 47 1 19 12 48
Birds 339 9 56 32 351
Bony fish 53 4 0 4 57
Insects 55 0 0 3 56
Mammals 90 11 3 10 101
Reptiles 119 1 12 10 120
Fungi 170 0 0 0 170
Plants 2019 392 116 73 2411
Protists 27 0 2 0 27

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

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