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Topic: Protected areas of Queensland Australia

	IUCN - World Commission on Protected Areas
		Indigenous Populations and Protected Areas in Queensland, Australia
		The Government of Queensland, Australia, is engaging in ways to achieve this through a new system of protected areas and a process which returns ownership to indigenous populations in Cape York Peninsula, one of the world’s largest and relatively untouched wilderness areas.
		Demonstrating how protected areas contribute to human wellbeing and linking them with the Millennium Development Goals is the particular challenge of the Ad Hoc Open Ended Working Group on Protected Areas of the Convention on Biological Diversity, said Nik Lopoukhine, Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas in his keynote presentation.
	www.iucn.org /wcpa/newsbulletins/indexnews/previousnews2005.htm (4025 words)

	Protected areas of Queensland (Australia): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Queensland is the second largest mainland state in Australia.
		It contains 470 separate Protected Areas with a total land area of 6,938,764 hectares (4.02% of the state’s area).
		216 of these are National parks, which is the highest number of any Australian state or territory, totalling 6,587,093 hectares (3.81% of the state’s area).
	www.encyclopedian.com /na/National-Parks-(Queensland,-Australia).html (118 words)

	1362.3 - Regional Statistics, Queensland, 2002
		In area, Queensland is equivalent to the entire British Isles and Western Europe and is five times the size of Japan but has a population less than that of the Sydney Statistical Division (SD).
		Queensland subscribers downloaded 193 million megabytes (Mbs) of data during the September 2001 quarter, with 127 million Mbs or 65.8% downloaded by subscribers in the Brisbane SD alone.
		The five Queensland local government authorities with both the greatest revenue and expenses in 2000-01 were Brisbane, Gold Coast, Logan, Maroochy and Townsville, together accounting for 47% of Queensland's revenue and 47.7% of the state's expenses.
	www.abs.gov.au /AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/allprimarymainfeatures/158DF9BBFF2E08D9CA256DF60074A46E?opendocument (3793 words)

	Protected areas review > Thailand > (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thailand’s protected areas already form one of the largest systems in the world as a proportion of national territory, and the government plans to increase the protected area estate to 25 per cent over the next decade.
		An initial step is properly valuing protected areas in economic terms and reflecting those values in national and sector budgets and in the overall flow of investment going to conservation.
		Protected areas need to be planned and managed as important components of the wider development landscape.
	www.mekong-protected-areas.org /thailand/n_report.htm (757 words)

	Queensland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Queensland is a state of Australia, in the north-east of the country.
		Queensland is also Australia's most decentralised state: The capital and largest city is Brisbane, but others regional centres include the Gold Coast (the state's second largest city and a major tourism destination), Rockhampton, Townsville, Mackay, Cairns, Toowoomba, and Mount Isa.
		West To the west, Queensland is bordered by the Northern Territory, at the 138° E. longitude, and to the south-west by the north-eastern corner of South Australia.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queensland (725 words)

	Queensland - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Queensland is a state of Australia, in the northeast of the country.
		West To the west, Queensland is bordered by the Northern Territory, at the 138 deg.
		Queensland's population is less centralized than the rest of the country.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /queensland.htm (770 words)

	Queensland travel guide - Wikitravel
		Queensland is one of the six states in Australia and probably most famous because of its association with several major world heritage sites including the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree National Park.
		One of the major tourist areas is the beach-based tourist resort just south of Brisbane, known as the Gold Coast.
		South-east Queensland is one of the fastest-growing areas of Australia.
	wikitravel.org /en/Queensland (453 words)

	INSECT - Online Information article about INSECT
		family and in the tenrec most of the species are protected by spines implanted in the skin-muscle, or panniculus carnosus.
		ball protected on all sides by these spines, the skin of the back being brought downwards and inwards over the head and tail so as to include the limbs by the action of special muscles.
		and the nostrils are protected by valves, The fur is dark brown the same as in Oryzorictes.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /I27_INV/INSECT.html (6953 words)

	Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef. Explore Queensland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Queensland is the second largest of Australia's states occupying an area of 667,000 square miles.
		Queensland is located in Australia's north east and will give you access to the world famous Great Barrier Reef.
		Queensland's Sunshine Coast is located to the north of Brisbane and is made up of several resort towns.
	www.clickforaustralia.com /Queensland.htm (1486 words)

	CNN.com - Reef threat won't sway Australia - Feb. 22, 2004
		Australia will not sign the Kyoto pact on global warming, despite a new report that warns rising ocean temperatures will kill most of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef by 2050, an official said Sunday.
		The reef, which stretches almost 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) along the Queensland coast in northeastern Australia, is one of the country's biggest tourist attractions.
		Last year it increased the size of high-protection zones on the reef from 4.5 percent to 33.3 percent of its total area, or from 16,000 square kilometers to 114,000 square kilometers (6,200 square miles to 44,000 square miles).
	cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/22/australia.reef.ap (550 words)

	The Great Barrier Reef - Australia - Goway Travel
		Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the largest complex of coral reefs and islands in the world, comprising 3,000 individual reefs and about 600 islands covering an area half the size of Texas.
		The Reef is closer to the coast in northern Queensland - as near as nine miles from Port Douglas and Cairns - while at its southern end it is nearly 100 miles away.
		Australia has hundreds of enchanting tropical islands that are part of, or next to, the Great Barrier Reef.
	www.goway.com /downunder/australia/au_gbr.html (972 words)

	protected areas of queensland (australia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Queensland is the second largest mainland state in Australia.
		It contains 470 separate Protected Areas with a total land area of 6,938,764 hectares (4.02% of the state’s area).
		216 of these are National parks, which is the highest number of any Australian state or territory, totalling 6,587,093 hectares (3.81% of the state’s area).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Protected_areas_of_Queensland_(Australia).html (133 words)

	Australia Now - Australia's protected areas
		Australia is the driest inhabited continent in the world and is part of a former giant land mass, Gondwana, which connected the southern continents of Africa, Antarctica, Australia, India and South America, and broke up more than 100 million years ago.
		Australia is considered to be a world leader in joint management of protected areas with the land’s indigenous traditional owners.
		Australia’s protected areas are not only concentrated on dry land - with such significant natural treasures as the Great Barrier Reef, there is a need to extend protection into the sea as well.
	www.dfat.gov.au /facts/protected_area.html (2406 words)

	Queensland's mining heritage - EPA/QPWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At the height of the Charters Towers gold rush in 1873, Queensland's richest alluvial gold deposits were found near the Palmer River in the far north.
		During the 1880s, two factors transformed Queensland's mining industry: gold was sought by deep-reefing, and prospectors diversified their mining interests to include other metals.
		Queensland's early mines are a fascinating part of our heritage, worthy of protecting and visiting where possible.
	www.epa.qld.gov.au /cultural_heritage/places_and_meanings/queenslands_mining_heritage (1193 words)

	Protected Areas Of Queensland Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		art form internally across all areas of the...
		areas in the south of the state to isolated areas in far-north Queensland.
		Researchers from the University of Queensland and Gold Coast...
	www.wikiverse.org /protected-areas-of-queensland-australia (203 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Of all Australia's rainforests, this structural type is considered to be closest to the humid tropical lowland forests of South-east Asia.
		Of the genera, 75 are endemic to Australia and 43 are restricted to the region.
		On the uplands Sphalmium racemosum and Stenocarpus davalloides are restricted to the Mt Carbine Tableland in the northern section of the nominated area, whereas Lomatia fraxinifolia, Darlingia darlingiana and Cardwellia sublimis are widespread.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/wettropi.html (5201 words)

	Queensland Conservation
		Queensland ’s marine environment is a much-loved treasure that provides a resource for fishers, tourism and recreational users as well as habitat for a vast diversity of marine life including dugongs, turtles, whales and fish.
		No-take sanctuaries which protect all marine life are vital for marine health, as they support much higher levels of biodiversity and promote the recovery of degraded areas.
		Queensland has five World Heritage Areas: the Great Barrier Reef, the Wet Tropics, Fraser Island, the Central Eastern Rainforests Region of Australia (CERRA) and Riversleigh, reflecting the extraordinary diversity and richness of the State’s biodiversity and landforms.
	qccqld.org.au /election2006/policy_asks/protected.htm (1517 words)

	Cairns News Archive. ABC News Online
		Queensland conservationists have congratulated the state and federal governments for finalising a plan to protect the waters of the Great Barrier Reef from chemical pollution.
		Queensland Health has confirmed 900 people are in line to see an orthopaedic specialist and about 130 are waiting for surgery.
		Queensland rural lobby group AgForce says a rise in the value of beef and cattle exports is due to marketing efforts overseas and a drought-induced shortage of supply.
	www.abc.net.au /news/australia/qld/capricornia/monthly (2732 words)

	Oceans -- WWF-Australia
		The area of the Earth's surface covered by oceans is 71%, yet only 0.5% of the world's oceans are protected.
		In Australia, WWF is focusing on marine protected areas, sustainable fishing, tracking marine debris and marine turtle protection.
		We are focused on establishing a world class protected area system and improving water quality from land based pollution for the Great Barrier Reef.
	wwf.org.au /ourwork/oceans (351 words)

	Protected areas review > Vietnam > National report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Vietnam national PAD report analyses the achievements and weaknesses of the Vietnam protected area system and its relationship with community development and economic sectors such as water resources, energy, agriculture, fisheries, tourism, industry and biodiversity conservation.
		It proposes practical measures and solutions to overcome the weaknesses with a focus on strengthening the relationships between protected areas and local communities and application of the “user pays” principle to all development sectors that receive benefits from protected areas so that payments go to maintaining the resource base.
		In order to strengthen the role of protected areas in economic development, the National Report has proposed some recommendations on the use of financial and planning tools, the improvement of cooperation and collaboration between related sectors and levels, and on the legal and institutional frameworks relevant to the protected area system.
	www.mekong-protected-areas.org /vietnam/n_report.htm (376 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Queensland tropical rain forests (AA0117)
		Queensland’s tropical rainforests are located in the narrow, coastal, high rainfall belt of northeastern Australia on steep to undulating plateaus lying between 600 m and 900 m, with mountain peaks rising to 1,622m.
		Queenslands’ tropical rainforests as a center of endemism differs from other areas of long-isolated floras in that it is part of an ancient continental as opposed to island landscape, uplifted more than 100 million years ago and tectonically stable for the greater part of the period of angiosperm evolution.
		A full 50 percent of Australia’s bird species are found here, as are 25 percent of its frog species, 23 percent of its reptile species, 41 percent of its freshwater fish species, and 60 percent of Australia’s butterfly species (Goosem 2000).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0117_full.html (2615 words)

	Queensland
		This is the only state in Australia which doesn't have summersaving, and this could sometimes cause problems when you cross the border.
		Queensland is the second biggest state in Australien, after WA.
		In Australia there's less than 2 million hectars of rainforrest, and there's a constant threat of extermination.
	hem.passagen.se /isabel_lundstrom/engqueensla.htm (635 words)

	Protected areas review > Lao PDR > (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Altogether, the protected area system covers more than 21 percent of the land area, one of the largest “land uses” in the country.
		Yet, the contributions of both in situ and “exported” benefits of Lao PDR’s protected areas to national development are not well understood or recognised.
		It presents a more complete picture of the economic importance of protected areas, and demonstrates the high and wide-ranging economic costs associated with their degradation, which extend far beyond the loss of direct use values.
	www.mekong-protected-areas.org /lao_pdr/n_report.htm (556 words)

	WWF \| Fishing \| Conservation Results \| Barrier Reef
		Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park today becomes the world's largest marine protected area, thanks in part to four years of dedicated conservation and advocacy efforts by WWF and its partners.
		Protected areas are believed to be the best tool available to restore fishery productivity, so this is a win-win for fishermen and the environment.
		The new network of strictly protected areas will reduce pressure on the Great Barrier Reef and enhance its capacity to overcome large-scale threats such as overfishing, pollution and coral bleaching, which kills coral as water temperatures rise.
	www.worldwildlife.org /oceans/results_reef.cfm (297 words)

	Australian National Parks
		For Australia has one of the largest and greatest national park systems in the world, covering over 24 million hectares, with such diversity as lush rain forest to waterless desert.
		Australia is the driest continent in the world and is part of a former giant land mass, Gondwana, which connected the southern continents of Africa, Antarctica, Australia, India and South America, and broke up more than 100 million years ago.
		With these areas included, a total of 60.4 million ha (7.85 per cent) of Australia's land area is protected.
	www.australiannationalparks.com (697 words)

	Parks.it - Parks and other protected areas in Queensland, Australia
		Queensland's unique environmental values generate a great deal of economic activity and jobs throughout urban, regional and rural Queensland.
		The diverse environmental values which make up the World Heritage-listed areas of the Great Barrier Reef (www), the Wet Tropics rainforests, Fraser Island, the south-east Queensland temperate rainforests and the Riversleigh Fossil Field are vital to the long-term economic security of Queensland's tourism industry.
		Additionally, the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service is responsible for the management of 4 million hectares of state forest in Queensland.
	www.parks.it /world/AU/stato.queensland/Eindex.html (297 words)

	! Rainforest Nocturnal Animals ! Spotlighting, Far North Queensland Australia
		After dark at Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodge the Red-legged Pademelons (Rainforest Kangaroos), Long Nosed Bandicoots and Northern Brown Bandicoots emerge from the forest into the floodlit clearings in front of the lodges.
		In Australia, avoiding the sometimes searing daytime temperatures is an additional advantage for many animals, reducing their need to conserve water.
		Large rod cells contain more rhodopsin, but fewer can be packed into a given area, which means there is a consequent reduction in visual detail.
	www.rainforest-australia.com /nocturnal_animals.htm (1893 words)

	Protected areas of Australia information - Search.com
		Protected areas of Australia are maintained by the Department of the Environment and Heritage, with the exception of the Great Barrier Reef, which is managed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a body within the department.
		Each state is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the areas within its boundaries.
		Environment Australia is responsible only for the Commonwealth and off-shore parks in the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, the Christmas Island Territory, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Territory, the Norfolk Island Territory and the Australian Antarctic Territory.
	www.search.com /reference/Protected_areas_of_Australia (173 words)

	AEGiS: Australia
		Australia became a commonwealth of the British Empire in 1901.
		A referendum to change Australia's status, from a commonwealth headed by the British monarch to an independent republic, was defeated in 1999.
		AFAO is the peak non-government organisation representing Australia's community-based response to HIV/AIDS.
	www.aegis.com /countries/australia.html (1276 words)

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