Environmental advocates welcome Queensland Government's strategy to protect national parks
4 years, 2 months ago

Environmental advocates welcome Queensland Government's strategy to protect national parks

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Three days out from going into caretaker mode for this year's election, the Queensland Government has delivered on a promise made last election. But the Government's 10-year plan for protecting and creating more national parks doesn't have nearly as much funding as conservation organisations said was required. Queensland's Conservation Council and the Pew Charitable Trusts said $135 million dollars a year was needed to buy enough wilderness areas and pay private landholders to protect them. "We'll take the $60 million as a down payment and hope that there'll be further investment in the coming budget cycles," said Andrew Picone from the Queensland Conservation Council. "For the first time we have national park-level protection for private land so that's a very high level of protection and that is an Australian first," Mr Picone said.

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ABC 7.30: Land use conflict in NSW national parks
2 years, 4 months ago

ABC 7.30: Land use conflict in NSW national parks

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BARRY O'FARRELL: Look, I understand that we have national parks and we have State forests. REPORTER: The Upper House Standing Committee chaired by Robert Brown of the Shooters and Fishers Party had taken 518 submissions into the management of public land including the process of assessment of potential operational, economic, social and environmental impacts before any land is converted into …

Victorian government creates three new national parks, but not everyone's happy
3 years, 6 months ago

Victorian government creates three new national parks, but not everyone's happy

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The Victorian government has created three new national parks in the state's central west in an attempt to protect and preserve some of the region's most precious parkland areas. Key points: The Victorian government says it's creating the parks to further protect Central Victoria's unique environment The new parks will add tens of thousands of hectares of parkland by linking …

Conservation groups accuse Queensland Government of breaking 2017 election promise to protect 17 per cent of wilderness
4 years, 3 months ago

Conservation groups accuse Queensland Government of breaking 2017 election promise to protect 17 per cent of wilderness

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Conservation groups have accused the Palaszczuk Government of not delivering on an election promise to protect 17 per cent of the state's wilderness areas by failing to establish a strategy to create more national parks across the state. Key points: Only 8.2 per cent of the state's wilderness has been protected, rather than 17 per cent as promised Conservation groups …

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