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Indigenous Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves, State Forests

Timeline: Highlights from national parks over NPAQ’S 90 years

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31
Mar

1870-1929 (Pre-NPAQ) 1872 Yellowstone National Park – World’s first National Park 1879 The National Park declared under The Land Act 1897 (now Royal National Park), Australia’s first National Park 1900 Barron Falls earliest Queensland reserve (The Land Act 1897) 1906 The State Forest & National Parks Act 1906 (Qld) – first Australian legislation (and possibly […]

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Ecotourism, National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves, State Forests, Uncategorized

Let’s Talk Ecotourism – Part II

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31
Mar

In October last year, NPAQ organised a seminar in Brisbane to discuss an important issue: the pros and cons of ecotourism in national parks. In the last edition we caught up with two of the speakers and now we present the views of the other two speakers to get their perspectives in more detail. David […]

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National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves, State Forests, Uncategorized

The Value of Volunteer Conservation Groups

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31
Mar

We are fortunate in Australia to have some of the oldest and largest subtropical rainforest left on the planet. This has been achieved by the foresight of some of our pioneers who recognised the value of these special places that were, in some cases, being exploited for their timber, minerals and agricultural resources. The reservation […]

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National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves, State Forests

Wildlife after severe fire in springtime in mountain forests of SEQ: a few notes

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04
Feb

The advice provided in this article is for private land only, and perhaps Council land with permission. National Parks have a strictly hands-off policy, so nothing should be provided there. Fire is a natural phenomenon in many Australian ecosystems. Many of our open forest and heathland plants have adaptations to deal with it, and many […]

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Indigenous Conservation, National Parks, Nature Refuges, State Forests

Large hadroid land snails of south-eastern Queensland protected areas

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04
Feb

Queensland has a sizeable number of large to very large land snails typically referred to as the hadroid snails, belonging to the family Camaenidae. A number of lineages are involved and this article features one such genus of Dark and Banded Snails from south-eastern Queensland whose species chiefly inhabit rainforest and dry vine thickets along […]

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Ecotourism, Indigenous Conservation, National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves, State Forests

From the President – Protected Magazine Summer 2019-2020

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03
Feb

Welcome to a new edition of Protected and a new decade! I hope you all enjoyed family and Christmas celebrations whilst no doubt being concerned/alarmed by the ongoing drought, associated fires with loss of life, property and wildlife. This edition contains articles on our recently held Ecotourism Seminar and the ensuing debate, on wildlife after […]

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Ecotourism, Indigenous Conservation, National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves, State Forests

A Daytrip with QPWS Rangers

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12
Nov

Growing up in Kenya, my understanding of a national park has been a sunrise or sunset game drive to watch the big five animals in their natural setting. On this daytrip my goal was to understand how people in Queensland use their National Parks. Early Monday morning Marika, Laura and I set off with Andrew […]

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