Biodiversity is our business.
At QTFN, we protect, restore and connect people to Queensland’s biodiversity in market-changing ways.
Queensland Trust for Nature continues to work to protect, restore and connect ecologically important land and strategic wildlife corridors. We are a private land conservation organisation delivering on-ground outcomes, enabling strategic projects, and supporting decision-makers with our expertise.
We protect the environment across Queensland by increasing the private protected area estate through our Revolving Fund. We’ve been acquiring land, restoring it, protecting it with conservation covenants, and selling it onto the private market for over 20 years – with over 100,000 hectares protected to date.
We 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 work alongside partners and landholders to support their land stewardship efforts, including for koala habitat restoration and the benefits that can bring to other species
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
101,587
hectares declared as nature refuges through QTFN’s Revolving Property Fund
233,082
hectares protected through assisting Nature Refuge process
>301,000
habitat trees planted
3,200
hectares currently owned and managed by QTFN
>100
threatened species habitat & ecosystems protected
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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.
The right kind of fire: building our landscapes’ resilience
Feathery-soft cool ash sits in my palm, disintegrating as it falls through my fingers. It was part of the lantana (Lantana camara) on fire not long ago, but now as it returns to the ground it will become a cover for regenerating species. Around me, a haze rises through the canopy, thin, pale clouds that […]
New plantings will help form a continuous habitat corridor from the creek to the ridges
Great to see the final plantings for round 2 of our Koala Habitat Restoration Partnership Program (KHRPP) in the ground! In the first photo you can see the new plantings in the foreground, previous KHRPP revegetation in the middle, and Queensland Blue Gum regional ecosystems 12.3.7 and the endangered 12.3.3. in the back. This picture, […]
Hosting NBRUC at Aroona
There’s real value when you look on-ground and ask honest questions about what environmental markets in action really takes, sharing with a group of graziers, researchers, policy makers and knowledge brokers. On 13 March, QTFN opened the gates of Aroona Station to attendees of the Northern Beef Research Update Conference. We had some insightful discussions […]