Biodiversity is our business.
At QTFN, we protect, restore and connect people to Queensland’s biodiversity in market-changing ways.
Australia is among the most biologically rich countries in the world and Queensland is the most biodiverse state. At QTFN, we do more than champion the preservation of land, habitat, ecosystems and species.
We help protect the 85% of private land in Queensland through our Revolving Fund, by acting as real estate for nature through our Revolving Fund. We acquire land, restore it, protect it with conservation covenants, and sell it onto the private market.
We help restore nature, focusing on ecologically significant areas and wildlife corridors across Queensland for maximum impact. We currently manage areas nestled in the Daintree rainforest, southern Great Barrier Reef, and a cattle property in South East Queensland. We also work with other landholders to restore nature on their properties, including to help koalas.
We connect, learn about, and share our knowledge of the natural environment. This means we connect people, help research, help spread knowledge through communities, and work with organisations to support them to understand and value nature.
We unlock their potential to make biodiversity an enticing opportunity for people and organisations – with returns that far exceed the ‘feel-good factor’.
Our legacy – to date
110,000+
hectares preserved (QTFN Long-Term Holdings + Revolving Fund)
245,000+
habitat trees planted
77
threatened regional ecosystems protected
230
threatened species habitat protected
109,703
hectares declared as nature refuges with QTFN’s support
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From a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef to koala habitat in South East Queensland; habitat restoration, threatened species research to sustainable land management … keep up-to-date with QTFN.
Passing protection onto our partners at Gurrbum Nature Refuge
Excitingly, this year we sold Gurrbum Nature Refuge to our partners the Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation (C4), an organisation dedicated to protecting and preserving the unique biodiversity of the Wet Tropics region. C4 co-invested with QTFN to purchase this precious property in 2019. Over the last five years, QTFN and C4 have been […]
Meet Australia’s little otter, the Rakali
Meet the Rakali – a charming native animal that calls South Bank home. Often referred to as ‘Australia’s little otter’, rakali have a beautiful golden tummy and white-tipped tail. They also swim in a way that often has them mistaken for platypus. This Australian native can be found right in the heart of Brisbane, at […]
Waterways for Wildlife: One tree at a time
On 11 April, six members of the QTFN team headed out to Aroona Station to plant 300 trees. The trees were planted along a water course that is threatened by erosion and will benefit from more vegetation. Our Waterways for Wildlife project at Aroona aims to widen our riparian buffers to improve habitat quality, […]