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Coming Together for Protected Areas Magazine of National Parks Association of Queensland Coming together for protected areas FEATURING Wetlands under threat ALSO - Our living outback - Quoll island network - Dingo dinners Issue 23 SUMMER 2018 1 Contents From the President ������������������������� 3 Park in focus �������������������������������� 10 FROM THE PRESIDENT Coming together ��������������������������� 4 Dingo dinners ������������������������������ 12 Our living outback �������������������������� 6 The national park experience �������� 13 Wetlands under threat �������������������� 8 Spotlight: Ranger of the Month ����� 14 What’s On ����������������������������������� 15 Editorial team Advertising enquiries Reece Pianta, Jeannie Rice and Marika Strand� Please email admin@npaq�org�au or phone (07) 3367 0878� Graeme Bartrim Contributor guidelines President, National Parks Association of Queensland (NPAQ) Banner: NPAQ Library If you have an idea for a Protected article we Advertising policy would love to hear from you� We can help with Advertisements are required to align with reviewing, editing and images� Contributions relevant NPAQ policies� NPAQ reserves the Welcome to the Summer 2018 be showcased and that it would National parks were visited by are always welcome� Please email admin@ right to refuse any advertisement at any time� edition of Protected. be ensured that any development 58 million people last year. This npaq�org�au for a schedule of future editions� Advertisement in Protected does not imply As 2018 ends it is worthwhile to would have an undefined soft shows their existing popularity Contributors, please include contact details NPAQ’s endorsement of products or services� consider our work in 2018 and touch. We are also told that and it would be worthwhile to and brief personal summary� Articles can be how we might be more effective eco-tourism developments in understand both the benefits and submitted via email or hard copy� Digital photos Copyright and disclaimer in the coming year. Tasmania and New Zealand are a impacts of this level of visitation should be minimum 300dpi� win-win for the economy and the prior to encouraging more. NPAQ retains copyright of Protected� Articles The attention given a few months environment. We are keen to see We call on the government to Cover image may be quoted provided that appropriate ago to using the Sydney Opera the evidence of minimal impact/ acknowledgement occurs in the reproduction House as a billboard for a horse develop a plan to grow and Cover photo: Laura Rangers in Cape York and use of material� enhanced biodiversity outcomes manage our protected area estate (Kerry Trapnell via Our Living Outback) race with its implied message at these locations. supporting gambling is relevant for the long term. This plan should Left image: (NPAQ Library) Articles in Protected do not necessarily reflect Last month the state government give nature conservation priority NPAQ’s opinion or position� to us in our advocacy work for national parks. called for expressions of and within that context optimise interest to build eco-tourism visitation. For many a line was crossed developments at Thorsborne About NPAQ when a beloved public asset, This year NPAQ and over 20 Track, Cooloola Great Walk other conservation groups came the Opera House, was used for and Whitsunday Island Trail. Mission statement commercial gain. Although the together to call for national It is proposed that these park expansion and better The National Parks Association of Queensland (NPAQ) long-term impact of projecting developments will be partnered promotes the preservation, expansion and good images onto the sails of the management. We are hopeful and financially supported by that government funding and management of national parks in Queensland� Opera House is zero, the sense the government. Fast-tracked of outrage felt by many was resources will be focused on approvals and leases of up to 60 enhancing our protected area Council Staff palpable. years are being suggested. President Graeme Bartrim Business Development Officer Marika Strand estate. In the meantime we seek The justification for using the National parks were not a moratorium on Eco- tourism Vice President Jacqueline Rose’Meyer Communications Officer Reece Pianta Opera House for horse race proclaimed as a resource to be developments. Hon Treasurer Neil Williams Conservation Officer Laura Hahn marketing was that NSW must exploited. Hon Secretary Debra Marwedel Project & Office Administrator Jeannie Rice compete with other states for the We are campaigning and This piecemeal planning is petitioning to make this happen. Councillors David Ball tourist dollar. This is a familiar pretext used to justify all manner unacceptable whilst we await a Visit www.npaq.org.au to sign Susanne Cooper Contact details funded Protected Area Strategy Julie Hainsworth of proposals for national parks. the parliamentary petition against Office Unit 10/36 Finchley St, Milton Too often this pretext goes which is anticipated to address development in national parks Cameron Hudson Post PO Box 1040, Milton QLD 4064 unquestioned. our state’s biodiversity decline, and support our campaign. Kalam McTaggart Phone (07) 3367 0878 predicted greenhouse changes Darryl Rae Web www�npaq�org�au In Queensland the last state and visitation. Finally, I would like to thank our Email admin@npaq�org�au budget allocated effectively collegiate and dedicated council no money to national park Our national parks are already very much, staff who are often ABN 60 206 792 095 acquisition. It is generally under threat. The present tragic doing a lot with very little and accepted that funding for existing fires that are causing enormous volunteers who make a great Want to get involved with NPAQ? park management is inadequate loss for residents and businesses contribution. remind us of this. In addition to NPAQ welcomes people from all walks of life and offers a variety of ways to be involved: and this also remained stagnant. Wishing you all a happy and At the same time the government the sadness and loss for people • Have fun in the bush – come • Step up – become a National • Connect with us – Facebook, there is a concern that the peaceful Christmas! along on a bush walk or Parks Conservation member Instagram and Twitter is adding further challenge other activity or a National Parks Protector to our parks by encouraging vegetation of Eungella National • Stay in touch – read regular Park may not recover from the • Donate – support our work and facilitating eco-tourism • Get your hands dirty – updates on our website severe fire. participate in on-ground • Volunteer on exciting projects • Share a bush adventure with developments in our national conservation efforts • Subscribe to Protected and children – download NPAQ’s parks. Of course, our parks should be • Join us – become a member Neck of the Woods via email Kids in National Parks guide Again, we are told that the State visited, and we do not object to must compete with other states this. Already our national parks for the tourist dollar, that our bring over $900 million a year in SUPPORT NPAQ AND HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE revenue to Queensland. BECOME A MEMBER, DONATE OR VOLUNTEER wonderful natural areas should www.npaq.org.au/get-involved www.facebook.com/NPAQld @nationalparksassocqld @NPA_Qld 2Connect and Protect 3 COMING TOGETHER FOR PROTECTED AREAS Graeme Bartrim NPAQ President Images: banner: Bette Devine. Left: NPAQ Image Library. Queensland is a large have consequences. The price weeds and inappropriate fire most needs conserving. protections is assured. Apart as Environment Minister that biologically diverse state of land exploitation over the last regimes. Further, this kind of aspirational from being sound stewardship dramatically increased our that European settlement has two centuries, has not been fully target without a realistic pathway of our land, this can have protected area estate. dramatically altered. There is a logical relationship factored into our economy. between protecting land in its to achieve it is meaningless. We potential economic benefits. The graph below shows Tourist interest in natural Over 200 years the area of As we move from a production natural state and biodiversity will certainly not achieve this Queensland in comparison to other areas is growing, bringing in forest, shrubland and heathland to a service-based economy it is conservation. Of course, other target by 2020 – the date set states. It paints an unfortunate in Queensland has declined reasonable to ask: can we keep in the Convention on Biological approximately $952 million each picture. year and our government is from 80% to 30% of the state doing what we have been doing? Diversity. Apart from expansions in park (Bradshaw, 2012). ...our national enthusiastic to capitalize on this. How do we focus on the long Indeed, our projections show area, management of our national term and the quality of life for parks require better We can transition from a model 64% of Queensland is leased that at our current rate, we might of exploitation – with its focus parks requires better resourcing to crown land. future generations? resourcing to not even achieve this milestone maintain and enhance biodiversity on jobs and economic activity, values. 28% of Queensland is private Our state’s biodiversity has borne maintain and enhance this century. to one tempered with proper freehold land. the brunt of much of our activity. biodiversity values. Our further fear too is that as the management of our land so that Expansion and management are 33.27% of the state is presently The last State of the Environment government embraces private its values remain for the long the focus of the new alliance of occupied by some form of Report contains some sobering protected areas, that we will not term. conservation groups, which have endorsed a considered position tenure that allows commercial figures. From 2007 to 2015 a matters such as management, see new national parks and the Our state has made incremental extraction or exploitative use of further 61 fauna species became current protected area ratio of paper suggesting a way forward for connectivity, and edge effects all increases in our protected area the state.
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