Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

is the second-largest

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. As at 2020, it contained more than 1,000

protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...

s. In August 2023, it was estimated a total of 14.5 million hectares or 8.38% of Queensland's landmass was protected.

List of terrestrial protected areas

Conservation Parks

* Anderson Street * Archer Point * Baddow Island * Baffle Creek * Bakers Creek * Baldwin Swamp * Bare Hill * Barubbra Island * Baywulla Creek * Beachmere * Beelbi Creek * Bell Creek * Bingera 1 * Bingera 2 * Bird Island * Blackwater * Bloomfield River *

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* Boat Mountain 1 * Boat Mountain 2 * Bottle Creek * Boyne Island * Broadwater * Buccan * Buckleys Hole * Bullock Creek * Bullyard *

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* Bunyaville * Burleigh Knoll * Byron Creek * Cabbage Tree Point *

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* Caloundra * Cape Pallarenda * Carbrook Wetlands * Carello Palm Swamp * Carraba * Causeway Lake * Charon Point * Combo 1 * Combo 2 * Coolmunda * Cooloothin * Coombabah Lake * Cressbrook * Currimundi Lake * Currumbin Hill * Daisy Hill * Dawson River * Delicia Road * Denmark Hill * Djilgarin * Duggan * Dwyers Scrub * Etty Bay Road * Eudlo Creek * Fraser Island * Five Rocks * Flagstone Creek * Fleays * Fleays Wildlife Park * Flinders Peak * Futter Creek * Garden Island * Goat Island * Goat Island (Noosa River) * Granville * Great Sandy * Gurgeena * Hallorans Hill * Harry Spring * Hays Inlet 1 * Hays Inlet 2 * Herberton Range * Highworth Bend * Horseshoe Bay Lagoon * Horseshoe Lagoon * Indooroopilly Island * Ipswich Pteropus * Irongate * Jack Smith Scrub * Jalum * Joseph Banks (Round Hill Head) * Jumrum Creek * Kamerunga * Keatings Lagoon * Keppel Sands * Keyser Island * King Island * Kirrama * Knapp Creek * Kurrimine Beach * Lake Broadwater * Lake Murphy * Lark Quarry * Limestone Creek * Long Island Bend * Malanda Falls * Maroochy River * Meingan Creek * Millstream * Moggill * Mon Repos * Mooloolah (Marie Higgs) * Morven * Mount Beau Brummell * Mount Blarney * Mount Cooroy * Mount Dumaresq * Mount Eerwah * Mount Hector * Mount Hopeful * Mount Kinchant * Mount Leura * Mount Perry * Mount Scoria * Mount Whitfield * Mouth of Baffle Creek 1 * Mouth of Baffle Creek 2 * Mouth of Kolan River * Myora * Neurum Creek * Newport * North Pointer * O'Regan Creek * Palm Creek * Palmview * Pine Ridge () * Plunkett * Police Paddock * Princhester * Reinke Scrub * Rosins Lookout * Round Island * Roundstone * Samford Ferny Hills * Serpentine Creek * Sheep Island * Sheep Station Creek * Shoalwater Bay * Six Mile Creek * Skull Knob * South Stradbroke Island 1 * South Stradbroke Island 2 * Speewah * Spicers Gap Road * Springwood * St Helens Gap * Tallebudgera Creek * Tinana Creek * Tinana Island * Tingalpa Creek * Tolderodden * Tomewin * Toohey Forest * Tooloombah Creek * Toorbul * Townsville Town Common * Vandyke Creek * Vernon * Wararba Creek * Warrina * Weyba Creek * White Blow * White Rock * White Rock (Limited Depth) * Wilandspey * Woongoolba * Zamia Creek

Conservation Reserves

* Mount Glorious

Feature Protection Areas

* Big Ironbark * Booroobin * Goggrell's Tree * Jowarra * Rosehall * Unnamed (20 different areas) * Western Creek

National Parks

Resources Reserves

* Abbott Bay * Amamoor Forest * Bouldercombe Gorge * Cooloola (Noosa River) * Flat Top Range * Heathlands * Iron Range (Lockhart River) * Jardine River * Kennedy Road Gravel * Lawn Hill (Arthur Creek) * Lawn Hill (Creek) * Lawn Hill (Gorge Mouth) * Lawn Hill (Gregory River Base) * Lawn Hill (Gregory) * Lawn Hill (Lilydale) * Lawn Hill (Littles Range) * Lawn Hill (Stockyard Creek) * Lawn Hill (Widdallion) * Littleton * Moonstone Hill * Morgan Park * Mount Rosey * Munburra * Palmer Goldfield * Stones Country * Wrattens

Scientific Areas

* Bald Mountain * Helidon Hills *

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* Mynea Creek * Nerang * Northbrook * Palgrave * Saltwater Creek * Stoney Range * The Lagoons * Unnamed (29 different areas) * Wordoon

List of marine protected areas

Marine protected areas within the Queensland jurisdiction consist of fish habitat areas declared under the ''Fisheries Act 1994'' and marine parks declared under the ''Marine Parks Act 2004''.

Fish habitat areas

Fish habitat areas are listed in two lists - 'A' and 'B'.

List 'A'

*Annan River *Baffle Creek *Beelbi *Bowling Green Bay *Broad Sound *Burrum *Cape Palmerston - Rocky Dam *Cawarral Creek *Cleveland Bay *Colosseum Inlet *Corio Bay *Dallachy Creek *Deception Bay *Edgecumbe Bay *Eight Mile Creek *Elliott River *Escape River *Eurimbula *Fitzroy River *Hay's Inlet *Hinchinbrook *Hull River *Jumpinpin-Broadwater *Kauri Creek *Kinkuna *Kippa-Ring *Maaroom *Margaret Bay "Wuthathi *Maroochy River *Meunga Creek *Moreton Banks *Morning Inlet - Bynoe River *Murray River *Myora - Amity Banks *Nassau River *Noosa River *Peel Island *Pine River Bay *Princess Charlotte Bay *Pumicestone Channel *Repulse *Rodds Harbour *Sand Bay *Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill *Silver Plains *Staaten-Gilbert *Starcke River (Ngulun) *Susan River *Temple Bay *Tin Can Inlet *Trinity Inlet *Tully River *West Hill *Wreck Creek

List 'B'

*Annan River *Barr Creek *Bassett Basin *Beelbi *Bohle River *Burdekin *Burrum *Cape Palmerston - Rocky Dam *Cattle-Palm Creek *Colosseum Inlet *Coombabah *Coomera *Currumbin Creek *Deception Bay *Edgecumbe Bay *Fraser Island *Half Moon Creek *Halifax *Kolan River *Margaret Bay "Wuthathi" *Maroochy River *Midge *Noosa River *Pimpama *Pine River Bay *Pumicestone Channel *Rodds Harbour *Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill *Starcke River (Ngulun) *Tallebudgera Creek *Trinity Inlet *West Hill *Yorkeys Creek

Marine parks

The Queensland jurisdiction only included the following three marine parks as of 2016; the

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities. It is a vast multiple-use Marine Park which supports a wide range of uses, including commercial marine tourism, fishing, ports an ...

is located within the Australian government's jurisdiction. * Great Barrier Reef Coast Marine Park * Great Sandy Marine Park * Moreton Bay Marine Park

References

External links

Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and RacingQueensland Prison & Penal Historical Association
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Protected areas Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewoo ...