Marine park · Queensland
Bowling Green Bay
Facts about this park from CAPAD 2024 and the world data on Biohotspot. Each figure is computed from the dataset named beside it; a figure that is missing or fails a check is left out.
- Gazetted
- 1989
- Open layers with data
- 228
The park
- CAPAD 2024 holds 4 records for this park.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- CAPAD lists it as Dugong Protection Area (B) and Fish Habitat Area (A).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- Its managing authorities in CAPAD are QLD_DAF and QLD_DES.CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
- It was gazetted in 1989 (CAPAD gazettal date).CAPAD 2024 · CC BY 4.0
Habitats and blue carbon
- The modelled kelp forest biome covers none of the park.Jayathilake & Costello 2020 · CC BY 4.0
- Maxwell et al. (2024) map 2,731 tonnes of carbon in the top metre of tidal marsh soil inside the park, 223 tonnes per hectare on average.Maxwell et al. 2024 · CC BY 4.0
Pressures
- Of the years 1985 to 2025, 2020 brought the most coral heat stress: averaged over the park, the year's highest Degree Heating Weeks reached 8.7 °C-weeks. NOAA counts 4 °C-weeks as bleaching likely and 8 as severe bleaching and mortality likely.NOAA Coral Reef Watch · Public domain
- The 2013 cumulative human impact score (Halpern et al. 2015) averages 2.39 across the park, from 0.00 to 4.22.Halpern et al. 2015 · CC0 1.0
Data and research
- 228 of the 1,475 world map layers on Biohotspot with an open licence have data inside the park.
- 1 document in the Biohotspot research library matches the search “Bowling Green Bay”.
Left out
- Some of CAPAD's zones for this park overlap, so their areas do not add up to the park's area: the total area, the IUCN Ia share and the area by IUCN category are not shown.
- Global Mangrove Watch (2020) and the Sanderman et al. (2018) map disagree on how much mangrove is here, so neither the mangrove area nor the mangrove soil carbon is shown.
Sources and licences
- NOAA Coral Reef Watch, daily global 5 km satellite Degree Heating Week (v3.1), annual maxima 1985–2025 · NOAA Coral Reef WatchLicence: Public domain (US Government work)NOAA Coral Reef Watch. 2018, updated daily. NOAA Coral Reef Watch Version 3.1 Daily 5km Satellite Regional Virtual Station Time Series Data. College Park, Maryland, USA.
- Cumulative human impacts: pressure and cumulative impacts data (2013, all pressures) · Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)Licence: CC0 1.0Halpern, B., Frazier, M., Potapenko, J., Casey, K., Koenig, K., Longo, C., Lowndes, J., Rockwood, C., Selig, E., Selkoe, K., Walbridge, S. (2015) Cumulative human impacts: pressure and cumulative impacts data (2013, all pressures). KNB. doi:10.5063/F15718ZN. Associated paper: Halpern et al. 2015, 'Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world's ocean' (no formal citation string given in the metadata).
- Modelled Global Distribution of the Kelp Biome · UNEP-WCMC Ocean Data Viewer (hosting); University of Auckland / Nord University authorsLicence: CC BY 4.0Jayathilake D.R.M., Costello M.J. 2020. A modelled global distribution of the kelp biome. Biological Conservation 252, 108815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108815 (v2: Jayathilake & Costello 2021, Biological Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109099)
- Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2024 – Marine · Australian Government, DCCEEWLicence: CC BY 4.0Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (2025). Collaborative Australian Protected Areas Database (CAPAD) 2024 – Marine.
- Global soil organic carbon in tidal marshes, version 2 (0–30 and 30–100 cm) · Maxwell, Spalding, Friess et al.Licence: CC BY 4.0Maxwell T.L. et al. (2024) Soil carbon in the world's tidal marshes. Nat. Commun. 15, 10265. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-54572-9
A park here is the CAPAD 2024 Marine zones that share a name and a state. Habitat areas are the habitat maps’ polygons inside the park; carbon, heat stress and human impact are the map cells that touch it. Only sources with an open licence are used. Computed on 2026-10-27.