Private Reserves – National Parks Association of Queensland

Category Archives: Private Reserves

In the News, National Parks, Private Reserves, Rangers, Special Wildlife Reserves, Uncategorized

New Report Card for Queensland’s Protected Area Strategy

Posted on by Karin Cox
Daintree NP with report card overlaid
27
Sep

On 20 September, the Department of Environment, Science and Innovation (DESI) released its annual report card on progress towards the state’s Protected Area Strategy 2020­–2030 (PAS). The third report card produced so far, it covers an extended period from 1 October 2022 to 30 June 2024, aligning it with other governmental financial year reporting. NPAQ’s […]

Continue reading →
Nature Refuges, Private Reserves, Uncategorized

Two New Nature Refuges Added to Protected Area Estate

Posted on by Karin Cox
Boomerang Lagoon on Abingdon Downs.
11
Jul

Two additions to Queensland’s Protected Area Estate have been announced, increasing protected areas to 8.6% of the State’s area.   The Albanese Government is providing $3 million to the Queensland Miles Labor Government through the Protecting Important Biodiversity Areas Program to support two nature refuges and future additions to Queensland’s private protected areas. The project […]

Continue reading →
biodiversity conservation, National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves, Special Wildlife Reserves, Uncategorized

Queensland’s Second Special Wildlife Reserve is Announced

Posted on by NPAQ Admin
04
Jun

On Saturday 1 June, the Miles Government announced that Bush Heritage Australia’s 8000-ha Edgbaston Reserve, in the Lake Eyre Basin near Longreach, will soon be declared the state’s second special wildlife reserve, after the safeguarding of Pullen Pullen Reserve as a special wildlife reserve in 2020. Like national parks, special wildlife reserves receive legal protection […]

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

Queensland’s new Protected Area Strategy

Posted on by NPAQ Admin
07
Dec

After much lobbying by the National Parks Association of Queensland and others, the Queensland Protected Area Strategy was finally released by the Government a few days before caretaker mode came into effect prior to the recent State election. The release of the Strategy has been one of the major requests of NPAQ as it will […]

Continue reading →
National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves

Queensland’s First Special Wildlife Reserve Declared

Posted on by NPAQ Admin
07
Dec

In 2014 I had the privilege of sitting on a rocky “jump-up” (or mesa) at the end of a long and hot day on what is now Pullen Pullen Reserve. It’s a remote and vast landscape in the Channel Country of central-west Queensland dominated by long unburnt spinifex, Mitchell grass downs and stony gibber plains. […]

Continue reading →
National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves, State Forests

From our Patron

Posted on by NPAQ Admin
10
Jun

Message from the Governor of Queensland Ninety years ago, Queensland’s fourteenth Governor, Sir John Goodwin, accepted the invitation from the National Parks Association of Queensland to become its inaugural Patron. As the current Governor, I have been very pleased to continue the tradition of vice-regal patronage of this great Queensland organisation. Sir John’s support was […]

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

Legacy: National Parks Association of Queensland’s 90th Anniversary

Posted on by NPAQ Admin
31
Mar

The National Parks Association of Queensland (NPAQ) has been active in increasing Queensland’s National Park Estate and seeking management of threats for 90 years. Romeo Lahey looms large in the establishment and early years of the Association. Lahey recognised that “no body of public opinion was organised to combat the influences which were operating against […]

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

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

Posted on by NPAQ Admin
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 […]

Continue reading →
Ecotourism, National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves, State Forests, Uncategorized

Let’s Talk Ecotourism – Part II

Posted on by NPAQ Admin
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 […]

Continue reading →
National Parks, Nature Refuges, Private Reserves, State Forests, Uncategorized

The Value of Volunteer Conservation Groups

Posted on by NPAQ Admin
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 […]

Continue reading →