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Biodiversity Assessment - Kanmantoo

Wetland threatening processes

Table: Provisional identification of wetlands of regional significance: their condition, trend and threatening processes within each subregion.
Wetland name Condition Trend Threatening processes Threatening processes notes
Fleurieu (KAN2)
Ducknest Creek Perched Swamps (43.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Unknown Broad scale vegetation clearing No data 
Ducknest Creek Perched Swamps (43.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Unknown Grazing pressure Cattle and feral goats.
Gold Digging Swamp (169.5) Unknown Unknown Broad scale vegetation clearing No data 
Gold Digging Swamp (169.5) Unknown Unknown Grazing pressure No data 
Myponga Swamp (168.5) Fair (Recovery requires significant intervention) Static Exotic weeds No data 
Myponga Swamp (168.5) Fair (Recovery requires significant intervention) Static Other - describe Human activity due to nearby shacks
Kangaroo Island (KAN1)
Bay Lake 2 (29.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Improving Pollution Possible sedimentation from access road entering system in high rainfall events
Cygnet River Lagoon (27.5) Fair (Recovery requires significant intervention) Declining Increasing fragmentation and loss of remnants No data 
Dead Horse Lagoon (16.5) Degraded (Recovery unlikely in medium term) Declining Changed hydrology - salinity No data 
Destree Swamp (22.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Static Changed hydrology - other Road intersects wetland system
Destree Swamp (22.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Static Pollution Sedimentation
Discovery Lagoon (17.5) Degraded (Recovery unlikely in medium term) Declining Changed hydrology - salinity No data 
Discovery Lagoon (17.5) Degraded (Recovery unlikely in medium term) Declining Increasing fragmentation and loss of remnants No data 
Duck Lagoon (26.5) Fair (Recovery requires significant intervention) Declining Changed hydrology - salinity No data 
Duck Lagoon (26.5) Fair (Recovery requires significant intervention) Declining Increasing fragmentation and loss of remnants No data 
Emanual lagoon (21.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Static Changed hydrology - salinity No data 
Emanual lagoon (21.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Static Increasing fragmentation and loss of remnants No data 
Halls road swamp (19.5) Degraded (Recovery unlikely in medium term) Declining Broad scale vegetation clearing No data 
Halls road swamp (19.5) Degraded (Recovery unlikely in medium term) Declining Changed hydrology - salinity No data 
Moores Lake (15.5) Fair (Recovery requires significant intervention) Declining Changed hydrology - salinity No data 
Moores Lake (15.5) Fair (Recovery requires significant intervention) Declining Increasing fragmentation and loss of remnants No data 
Nepean Bay Lagoon (24.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Static Increasing fragmentation and loss of remnants No data 
Salt Lake (18.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Static Increasing fragmentation and loss of remnants No data 
Salt Lake 2 (25.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Static Increasing fragmentation and loss of remnants No data 
Six Mile Lagoon (23.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Static Changed hydrology - salinity No data 
Six Mile Lagoon (23.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Static Increasing fragmentation and loss of remnants No data 
Six Mile Lagoon 2 (28.5) Good (Recovery requires little intervention) Static Grazing pressure Grazing pressures from native vertebrates (Kangaroo dominance)
Wangara Lagoon (20.5) Degraded (Recovery unlikely in medium term) Declining Changed hydrology - salinity No data 

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