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
109,703
hectares declared as nature refuges with QTFN’s support
111,800
hectares protected through our Revolving Fund
245,000+
habitat trees planted
77
threatened regional ecosystems protected
230
threatened species habitat 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.
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, […]