I first visited Kroombit Tops in 1998 as a Central Queensland local. At only eight years old it was a big day to get to the site of its most alluring feature – the 1945 crash site of a Beautiful Betsy airplane, the ill-fated WWII Liberator bomber. Driving from Calliope via the Tableland Road, it […]

The northern hairy-nosed wombat is one of the world’s rarest marsupials and the largest of the wombat species, averaging about 32kg. They are nocturnal, living in extensive burrow systems that can consist of up to 90 metres of tunnels. Although they historically occurred across a vast area of inland Queensland and NSW, by 1982, northern […]

Mapleton National Park is just 95kM (roughly an hour) north of Brisbane city, making it one of the 10 closest national parks to Brisbane by car. At least 107 species of birds live in the Blackall Ranges parks (Mapleton Falls NP, Kondalilla NP and Mapleton NP), including the peregrin falcon (Falco peregrinus), the Wompoo Fruit-Dove […]

For successful conservation of biodiversity, it is vital to know whether protected areas in increasingly fragmented landscapes effectively safeguard species. However, how large habitat fragments must be, and what level of protection is required to sustain species, remains poorly known. We compiled a global data set on almost 2000 bird species in 741 forest fragments varying […]

On December 10th this year, the day before World Mountains Day, the National Parks Association of Queensland will join with Binna Burra Lodge to host a half day ‘Families for the Forests’ celebration at Mt Roberts. Join us from 11am to 3pm on Saturday the 10th of December to enjoy live music, picnics and a range […]

The Romeo Lahey Memorial Lecture is held in memory and celebration of our founder, Romeo Lahey. There have been 19 memorial lectures to date, with the first being held the year after the passing of Romeo Lahey, who died in 1968. All previous Romeo Lahey Memorial Lectures can be read on the NPAQ website: https://npaq.org.au/rhl/ The 20th […]

The roles and responsibilities of Rangers (park managers) are diverse requiring knowledge and skills in fauna and flora ecology and conservation, and ecological processes such as pollination, water quality, nutrient regulation, soil formation and retention, air quality regulation, weed and feral animal control and fire management 1. As well, they require knowledge and skills related […]

Nantawarrina, the first Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in Australia was declared in 1998, on the Adnyamathanha lands (SA), since that time IPAs have grown due to demand from traditional owners across the country. In October 2022 there are now 81 IPAs nationally, protecting over 85 million hectares of land and over 5 million hectares of […]

Its time. 2022 will be a critical year globally for biodiversity, as the UN COP 15 (United Nations Convention of Biological Diversity conference of parties meeting for the 15th time) is in December. This meeting will be the largest biodiversity meeting in a generation, and the stakes for protecting our nature are high. Not just […]