Planning
In managing protected areas, the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service aims to:
- protect the area's natural condition
- ensure species of conservation significance are protected
- provide facilities for minimal impact and nature-based recreation
- protect parks from overuse
- concentrate human activity in less sensitive areas, and
- help visitors enjoy the park's special attractions.
The Nature Conservation Act 1992 (the Act) requires that management plans be prepared for each protected area to guide how the area is managed. The management plan:
- identifies the park's key natural and cultural values and
- proposes strategies for day-to-day and long-term management to protect those values.
The Act outlines how the community can get involved in the management planning process:
- Public submissions are actively sought before the management plan commences.
- These submissions are taken into account during the planning process.
- The community is invited to comment on the draft management plan.
- Community input must be considered before a final management plan is written and approved.
We value your input. About four to eight weeks is allowed for public comment on a draft plan. If you want to have a say in the way protected areas are managed, search this site or contact the Department of Environment and Resource Management on 13 QGOV (13 74 68) to find out when public submissions are required. Your submission could:
- extend or correct existing information about how the park is to be managed
- address particular outcomes, guidelines or actions
- suggest extra outcomes, guidelines or actions
- show what needs to be included or clarified
- indicate support for a particular outcome
- state briefly why you disagree with a proposed strategy or outcome.
Draft and final plans can be inspected or obtained free of charge from the Department's business centres across the State. Once approved, the final management plan is implemented. Changes cannot be made without further public consultation.
Last updated 8 December 2011