Enhancing Biodiversity Hotspots Along Western Queensland Stock ...

CURRENT MANAGEMENT: Desert Channels Queensland has undertaken the
preservation of the old McIlwraith homestead and the protection of some red-tailed
black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) breeding hollows.
RECOMMENDATIONS: It is strongly recommend that a visitor and landscape
management plan be developed in conjunction with management of the adjoining
station. Of importance is addressing the damage caused by tourists collecting
firewood at this site (and other sites in western Queensland). It would be beneficial to
engage with Winton Shire Council to put up signs on the approach to the Old Cork
Waterhole, in order to encourage tourists to gather wood along the roadside before
they reach this site. This site should also be a high priority list for pest and animal
control delivered by Winton Shire Council.
As tourist numbers are on the increase, consideration should be given by the Shires
of Western Queensland for a combined public education programme that would
address sustainable camping and fishing, to foster a continued enjoyment of the
outback.
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