National Parks bring prosperity, so how about a little more funding

By Andrew Picone
Updated December 5 2016 - 11:13pm, first published 10:09pm
The Australian Conservation Foundation's Andrew Picone (left) with Olkola elder Michael Ross. Photo: Kerry Trapnell
The Australian Conservation Foundation's Andrew Picone (left) with Olkola elder Michael Ross. Photo: Kerry Trapnell

The Palaszczuk government this week signed off on 366,000 hectares of new or expanded protected areas across Queensland. This is welcome news and will protect vital habitat for rare and threatened species still being lost to bulldozers on land outside the conservation estate.

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