Queensland Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 21B

21B Management principles of special wildlife reserves

(1) A special wildlife reserve is to be managed to—

(a) permanently protect the area’s exceptional natural and cultural resources and values; and

(b) protect the area’s exceptional scientific values; and

(c) present the area’s cultural and natural resources and values; and

(d) ensure the only use of the area is nature-based and ecologically sustainable.

(2) Also, a special wildlife reserve is to be managed to do any of the following stated in the conservation agreement for the reserve—

(a) allow controlled scientific study and monitoring of the area’s natural resources;

(b) provide opportunities for educational and recreational activities in a way consistent with the area’s natural and cultural resources and values;

(c) provide opportunities for ecotourism in a way consistent with the area’s natural and cultural resources and values;

(d) provide for the manipulation of the area’s natural and cultural resources to protect or restore the area’s natural or cultural values;

(e) provide for the manipulation of threatened wildlife’s habitat and the control of threatening processes relating to threatened wildlife, including threatening processes caused by other wildlife.