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Character Range: 196513–199866

Naree Budjong Djara on Minjerribah/North Stradbroke Island in south-east Queensland (QYAC QPWS 2020).
    * Sarina Beach near Mackay on the central Queensland coast (MRC 2022).
    * Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory (Woinarski & Winderlich 2014; Director of National Parks 2016).
The water mouse is earmarked for consideration during review of the Pumicestone Passage Action Plan and programs (Webb 2021 pers. comm.).
In 2021, broad management plans were under development for K'gari/Fraser Island and for the Great Sandy Strait Ramsar wetland area.

4.14            Occurrence in protected areas
It is challenging to attribute a definitive tenure to most water mouse locations due to their occurrence in intertidal areas, which are often the defined boundary between management and custodianship tenures. Tenure information and associated population information for water mouse locations is available in Appendix A.
With few notable exceptions, the areas where the water mouse is most abundant and regularly detected are on the boundary of, or at the conjunction of, marine and terrestrial protected areas, joint‑management Native Title, and/or Commonwealth Department of Defence areas (Table 4). These land tenures afford significant long-term protection from the primary threat to the water mouse, i.e. coastal development. Effective management and monitoring of water mouse in these locations is required to address water mouse shelter damage and excessive predation by introduced predators, trampling and overgrazing by large herbivores, and loss of habitat and critical shelters to fire. There may be future concerns about water mouse population viability due to coastal squeeze from sea-level rise in marine protected areas adjacent to the built environment, e.g. parts of The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
There is significant overlap between recorded water mouse locations and internationally recognised Key Biodiversity Areas (BirdLife International 2021):
    * Moreton Bay and Pumicestone Passage, Cooloola and Fraser Coast, Great Sandy Strait, and Repulse Bay to Ince Bay in Queensland.
    * Arafura Swamp, Alligator River Floodplains (historical record: 1903), Tiwi Islands, and Anson Bay, Daly and Reynolds River Floodplains in the Northern Territory.
Table 4: Occurrence of water mouse in protected and heritage areas.
Type                                           Name
Marine park and associated fish habitat areas  Moreton Bay, Great Sandy, Great Barrier Reef, Great Barrier Reef Coast.
National park                                  Naree Budjong Djara, Bribie Island, Pumicestone, Mooloolah River, Great Sandy, Poona, Eurimbula, Cape Palmerston, Cape Hillsborough, Kakadua.
Indigenous protected area                      Djelk.
Conservation park                              South Stradbroke Island, Myora, Bullock Creek, Maroochy River, Eudlo Creek, Maroochy Wetlands, Coolum Creek, O'Reagan Creek, Sandringham Bay, Bakers Creek, Skull Knob.
Nature refuges and environment reserves        Edward Corbould Reserve and Retreat No. 2 Nature Refuge, Maroochy Wetland Sanctuary, Maroochy River Environment Reserve, Coolum Creek Nature Refuge, Coolum Creek Environment Reserve.
Resources reserve                              Eurimbula.
World and national heritage areas              K'gari (Fraser Island), Great Barrier