Queensland Trust for Nature
The Queensland Trust for Nature has been actively building its community profile as well as buying land with high conservation values.
In October 2005, the Trust was included on the Commonwealth Government's Register of Environmental Organisations, followed in December by Australian Taxation Office endorsement of the Trust's status as a deductible gift recipient.
The Deputy Premier, the Honourable Anna Bligh MP, officially launched the Trust at the Queensland Art Gallery in March 2006. Invitees came from business, philanthropic and conservation sectors.
Business relationships with several prominent organisations help the Trust investigate, acquire, conserve and resell property in Queensland. During 2005-06 the Trust bought two properties with significant conservation values and negotiated Conservation Agreements over both, resulting in two new nature refuges:
- Pembers Scrub Nature Refuge - a 64ha property in the Wet Tropics of North Queensland containing lush rainforest vegetation that supports wildlife such as endangered southern cassowaries and Lumholtz's tree kangaroos; and
- Gyetvay Park Nature Refuge - an 80ha property near Tamborine Village in south-east Queensland containing an endangered ecosystem of eucalypt woodland that has been widely cleared from the surrounding region.
The Trust will be seeking to market and resell these properties and continue to investigate new acquisitions.
Last updated: 21 November 2006
