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Demand our Missing Parks
Deliver Queensland’s Missing Parks
Queensland is renowned for its unique biodiversity and natural values. The state’s diverse ecosystems range from tropical rainforests and coral reefs to arid outback landscapes, and are home to an estimated 50,000 different species of plants and animals, many of which are found nowhere else in the world.
Despite this, only 8.7% of Queensland’s terrestrial area is protected, well below the average of the other Australian states and territories. While some progress has been made towards protected area targets and investing in landscape-scale conservation projects, the pace and scale of implementation has been slow, and there is a need for more urgent action to protect critical ecosystems and threatened species.
Since 2001, the Queensland Government has purchased six properties covering 96,000 hectares that were to be protected for conservation. More than two decades on, these high-value conservation acquisitions are still yet to formally become National Parks.
These missing National Parks represent more than 108 regional ecosystems and potential habitat of over a hundred threatened and conservation significant species.
It’s time for the Palaszczuk Government to deliver our missing parks!
Dear Premier Palaszczuk
Since 2001, the Queensland Government has purchased six properties covering 96,000 hectares that were to be protected for conservation. These properties represent more than 108 regional ecosystems and potential habitat of over a hundred threatened and conservation significant species.
These six properties are:
- Oak Hills, 130km north-west of Townsville
- Humpybong, 45km south-west of Townsville.
- Redcliffevale, 100km west of Mackay
- Lonesome Holding, near Expedition National Park
- Mount Adder, west of Mackay
- Turkey Station, south of Gladstone
Despite these properties being purchased for conservation, new mining and exploration and logging interests have been, or continue to be approved in the identified properties. They are also yet to be formally added to the protected area estate as National Parks.
Renowned for its unique biodiversity and natural values, Queensland is trailing other states and territories in protecting our natural places. Only 8.7% of Queensland’s terrestrial area is protected, and we need to see more urgent action to protect critical ecosystems and threatened species.
I call on your government to swiftly end all land uses that are not compatible with the designation of these areas as national parks. Further, I would like to see all identified land units added to the protected area estate as national park (with First Nations consent) within this term of government.
Thank you