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Sep
Sep
Carly Smith is a Ranger at Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park in the Central West region of Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS).
Category Archives: Nature Refuges
Marine Protected Areas, National Parks, Nature Refuges, State Forests
The National Park Experience: Personal reflection on why our parks must be valued
19
Sep
Sep
Personal reflection on why our parks must be valued.
Ecotourism, National Parks, Nature Refuges, State Forests
Private ecotourism infrastructure in Queensland national parks: win-win or thin edge of the wedge!
17
Apr
Apr
How are national park systems in other states faring? What challenges do they face?
The National Parks Association of Queensland caught up with the NPAs across Australia for their perspectives on the biggest issues facing their state’s national parks.
Ecotourism, National Parks, Nature Refuges, State Forests
Feeling the Heat: National Parks Associations across Australia
12
Mar
Mar
How are national park systems in other states faring? What challenges do they face?
The National Parks Association of Queensland caught up with the NPAs across Australia for their perspectives on the biggest issues facing their state’s national parks.
12
Mar
Mar
Shellie Cash is Ranger-in-Charge at Currawinya National Park in western Queensland. She has always loved being outdoors studying different animals. Growing up on a farm gave her a passion for land management and, after completing high school, Shellie took on a traineeship with QPWS in Rockhampton. It didn’t take her long to realise that she had found her perfect job.
National Parks, Nature Refuges
The National Park Experience: Personal reflection on why our parks must be valued
12
Mar
Mar
Since moving to Queensland six years ago our family has made countless holidays and day trips to Queensland’s national parks. There are so many choices.
Our most frequent and favourite day trip though has been to a reserve, not a national park. Located on the Sunshine Coast, Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve is a short one hour and 10-minute drive from Brisbane.
25
Jun
Jun
The Department of Environment and Science’s Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) and Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS) have commenced a collaborative project to undertake captive breeding of the critically endangered Kroombit tinker frog (Taudactylus pleione). This comes on the back of a successful captive breeding trial using the closely related Eungella tinker frog (T. liemi), by Professor Jean-Marc Hero (formerly of Griffith University), Dr Ed Meyer (consultant ecologist) and Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.
16
Apr
Apr
The inside story on tracking down Australia’s most untrackable birdlife.
National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves
Public hearing on Special Wildlife Reserves clarifies flora is included
25
Jul
Jul
Discussion on a Bill to establish Special Wildlife Reserves (a new class of privately-owned protected area) at an Agriculture & Environment Committee hearing has cleared up some confusion around the name and produced many interesting perspectives, including AgForce’s fears over “locking up land”.
19
Jul
Jul
Highlighting the importance of the various land tenures in the protected area estate and the role they play in aiding endangered species, the estimated population of wild northern hairy-nosed wombats – one of the world’s rarest species – has almost doubled since the successful reintroduction program commenced at the Richard Underwood Nature Refuge in 2009. There’s more cause for celebration, with the arrival of the species’ first joey recorded in Queensland for five years!
