Protected Areas and Status:

In 1990, the Queensland government worked with the Australian government to “jointly fund and coordinate management of the Wet Tropics” (UNESCO), resulting in the establishment of the Wet Tropics Management Scene. Throughout the next decade, the several acts and plans were implemented to attempt to conserve the area through annual reports and regulation of threatining activity, such as the Wet Tropics Act of 1933 and the Wet Tropics Management Plan of 1998 (WT Plan). The Wet Tropics were officially inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1988 and the Australian National Heritage list in May 2007, promoting the conservation and protection of the area.

(http://www.wettropics.gov.au/maps)

As a result of all the work that has been done to protect the Wet Tropics, logging has been prohibited since 1987 and the infrastructure projects done in the area have since been removed, allowing the impacted forests to recover. Additionally, more than 79% of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area is protected as national parks, regional parks, State forests, and forest reserves. Some of the more well known protected areas include the Barron Gorge National Park, the Tully Gorge National Park and the Herberton Range Regional Park.

Tully Gorge National Park
http://nprsr.qld.gov.au

Barron Gorge National Park
http://nprsr.qld.gov.au