Queensland community and conservation groups will today deliver 10 grounds for refusal of the Springbrook cableway to key decision makers after their concerns remain unanswered in the nine months since council voted to spend $500,000 to investigate the “de-risking” of a proposed cableway to Springbrook. The new Respect Springbrook Mountain coalition has invited all key […]
24 October 2024 A coalition of environment groups has rejected attempts by LNP leader David Crisafulli to breathe life into a tourism development proposal in Springbrook National Park that was rejected by the Beattie Government years ago. In a Courier Mail story today, Mr Crisafulli was quoted as backing a cableway in the Gold Coast […]
The State Budget has allocated an extra $40 million over two years for national parks, however only $5 million of that will potentially go towards operational funding and conservation planning. The rest is essentially a tourism spend disguised as environmental dollars. Learn why the Queensland Government’s boast of a record environmental spend isn’t all it’s made out to be.
Many Queensland national parks were heavily impacted as Cyclone Debbie cut a path of destruction centred on the Whitsunday and Mackay regions, before tracking south and creating widespread flooding. NPAQ Conservation Officer Laura Hahn assesses the damage and turns the spotlight on the mammoth clean-up effort.
State of the Park 2017, authored by NPAQ member Wade Lewis, highlights positive developments over the past year including advances made by the State Government in its approach to national park acquisition, planning and management.
