Ecosystems
Biodiversity
Biodiversity is defined as ‘the variety of all life forms—the different plants, animals and microorganisms, the genes they contain, and the ecosystems of which they form a part’. The government’s ultimate goal is to have complete and ecologically viable examples of every biogeographic region and every major vegetation community in the protected area estate.
Nature refuges
Landholders can make an invaluable contribution to protecting Queensland’s natural and cultural resources by voluntarily dedicating an area of their land to be protected as a nature refuge while still allowing them compatible and sustainable land uses.
Regional ecosystems
Regional ecosystems are communities of vegetation that are consistently associated with a particular combination of geology, land form and soil in a bioregion. Each regional ecosystem has been assigned a conservation status which is based on its current remnant extent (how much of it remains) in a bioregion.
WetlandInfo
See WetlandInfo for up-to-date, comprehensive information on Queensland’s wetlands. Definitions, facts and figures, maps and data, information on monitoring and assessment and wetland science and research are all available on WetlandInfo.
Last updated: 21 October 2009