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New regulations came into effect on 22 August 2020: [2] the Nature Conservation (Animals) Regulation 2020 (the Animals Regulation), introducing a new animal licensing framework; and; the Nature Conservation (Plants) Regulation 2020 (the Plants Regulation), which transferred all existing plant provisions into a single stand-alone regulation.
Queensland's Environmental Protection Agency (abbreviated to EPA) was for some time a separate department of the Queensland Government, and, following 2009 state elections, became a part of the Government's larger Department of Environment and Science.
The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection was established in April 2012, [3] as part of a series of changes to the machinery of government after the LNP's win at the 2012 election. [4] The department took on most of the functions of the Department of Environment and Resource Management which was dissolved. [ 5 ]
The Environmental Defenders Office (Qld) Inc. (EDO Qld) was a non-profit, non-government Community Legal Centre which was established in 1989. and is one of nine independent Environmental Defenders Offices located across Australia which collaborated in a loose network known as the EDOs of Australia.
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) is a business division of the Department of Environment and Science within the Government of Queensland.The division’s primary concern is with the management and maintenance of protected areas within Queensland, to protect and manage Queensland’s parks, forests and the Great Barrier Reef for current and future generations.
This is a list of animals listed as Endangered under the terms of Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992. [1] The list is based on the most recent regulations, the Nature Conservation (Animals) Regulation 2020. [2]
The general environmental duty means that no one, whether individual or business, [1] must carry out any activity that causes or is likely to cause environmental harm unless all reasonable and practicable measures to prevent or minimise the harm are taken. The general environmental duty can be assimilated to a duty of care.
There are 21 Queensland Government departments, each responsible for delivering a portfolio of government legislation and policy. [1] Each portfolio area is led by a minister who is a senior member of the governing party in the state Legislative Assembly .