World heritage listing.

[tshort]

World Heritage Listing for the GSS in the near future. Whats the odds Derek.

[Derek_Bullock]

Don't ask me to back this up with fact because I can't lay my hands on it however, the Great Sandy Straits is a Ramsar Site and has already been proposed for World Heritage Listing.



Derek

[Derek_Bullock]

I knew it was on their site somewhere.

http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/register/p01689ac.pdf

In September 1991 the Australian Government
nominated an area of approximately 860,000ha
for World Heritage listing. The nominated area
included the Fraser Island and Cooloola
sandmasses, the Wide Bay Military Training
Area, the waters of Hervey Bay and Great Sandy
Strait and associated tidal shallows.
In December 1992, Fraser Island was inscribed
on the World Heritage List. The listed area covers
about 181,000ha and includes all of Fraser
Island and a number of small islands off the
west coast of Fraser Island including Stewart,
Dream and small unnamed islands between
Dream Island and the mouth of Yankee Jack
Creek and including Boonlye Point. The
boundary follows an imaginary line 500 metres
seaward of the high water mark on Fraser Island
and these smaller islands and is shown on Map 1.
The Queensland Government is committed to
protecting the outstanding values of the
remaining areas of the Great Sandy Region and
will continue to press for World Heritage listing of
the Cooloola Section of the Great Sandy National
Park, the Great Sandy Strait and Hervey Bay.

Derek

[tshort]

Thanks Derek I'll have a read later. Am hearing that it will be listed in approx. 6 months?