Date Time Queensland’s protected areas expanded Minister for the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef and Minister for Science and Youth Affairs The Honourable Meaghan Scanlon The Palaszczuk Government has announced more than 4,600 hectares of land will become protected habitat for wildlife, while half-a-million dollars will be provided to dozens of property owners across the state to safeguard nature refuges. Visiting 30 hectares of land today on the southern Gold Coast to be declared a new nature refuge, Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon said the move would ensure more crucial habita...