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Environment and sustainability

Access the collections, resources and content highlighting the diversity of Queensland's unique environment and the historic events that stood up to protect and preserve Queensland's natural wonders.

Featured collections

Annual reports: Environmental Protection Agency Queensland

Statutory reports relating to the administration of the Environmental Act 1994.

Queensland Conservation Council Records ca 1976-2000

Information relating to the Queensland conservation movement.

Adapting to climate change: a Queensland local government guide

A guide to help Queensland Councils assess the impacts of climate change on their roles and responsibilities.

Boys carrying a bundle of cabbage palm leaves in Kownayama community

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander heritage

Produced by the EPA, this book covers Queensland's Indigenous heritage, plus significant and archaeological places.

Threatened Species Program 2020-2040.

Threatened Species Program 2020-2040

Program aims to deliver coordinated actions to identify, protect and recover threatened species.

Marjorie Clelland with giant spear lily

National Parks Association of Queensland archive

The archive contains significant historical records documenting the impact of the creation of national parks in Australia.

Two buried protestors and three other protestors standing around during the Daintree Road blockade, August 1984.

Daintree Blockade photographs

The protests paved the way for World Heritage status of the Daintree Rainforest, FN Queensland.

Fraser Island Defence Organisation (FIDO) Records and Photographs

Correspondence, photographs, agendas, minutes, financial records, news cuttings and reports.

Steve holing a goanna in the Queensland bush

Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland material

Material from the largest and oldest wildlife-focused conservation group in the State.

Photographs

Experience images of Queensland's favourite protected landscapes from the past.

Bushwalker standing on a rock looking towards Mount Gillies near Mount Barney in 1941.

Videos

From the blog

Visitors admiring the plantings on the platform at Kuranda Railway Station, Kuranda, Queensland, 1970

Blogs from Entwined: plants and people

Explore stories about people and plants in Queensland and discover the masterpieces of botanical illustration in our collections.

‘It was their baby’ - Land ballots and the Fitzroy Basin Brigalow Development Scheme

The Qld government borrowed $23m to develop 4.5 million HA of the brigalow belt 1963 -1976.

Gale, Ron. (2003). People Swimming near Sea Birds on Michaelmas Cay, Part of the Great Barrier Reef, 1987, Collection reference: 7435 Ron and Ngaire Gale Collection.

The Ron and Ngaire Gale Photographic collection: Treasure collection of the John Oxley Library

Slides and transparencies of North Queensland including Cape York, Gulf, Cairns and Whitsundays.

Research from past Fellows

2020 John Oxley Library Fellows. Research Reveals: Women of the Great Barrier Reef

Research Reveals: Women of the Great Barrier Reef

Join our 2020 John Oxley Library Fellows as they share their research from the year.

Liquid Gold: the history of the Great Artesian Basin in Queensland

Join our 2014 John Oxley Library Fellow, Tom Blake as he shares his research from the year.

Land ballot for reclaimed princkly-pear blocks Chinchilla 1931

Research Reveals: Land ballots in Queensland

2018 John Oxley Library Fellow, Dr. Jennifer Moffatt shares her research from the year.