Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area - fact sheet
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources,
September 2006
© Commonwealth of Australia
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At the foot of Mount Tamborine near the Queensland-New South Wales border, the 100 hectares (one square kilometre) of Guanaba Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) features dense rainforest and vine thickets, eucalypt woodlands and picturesque creeks.
Located 90 kilometres south of Brisbane near the township of Tamborine, Guanaba's vegetation and steeply forested landscape form part of the greater Mount Tamborine escarpment. This escarpment is a richly diverse complex of 10 ecosystems with around 945 plant species, and is also the stronghold for several nationally threatened animals.
As well as protecting these plants and animals, IPA funding is helping local Aboriginal people restore their cultural traditions, which have suffered from the changes wrought by white settlement and removal from the land.
Guanaba is linked to the state-managed Mount Tambourine National Park by a privately-owned vegetation corridor. IPA land management activities reflect this relationship and are undertaken with Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service advice and assistance. These activities focus on conserving Guanaba's high levels of biodiversity through a weed removal program, and soil and catchment protection to prevent erosion on steep slopes.
Several of Guanaba's animal species are listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The longnosed potoroo, brush-tailed rock-wallaby and three-toed snake-toothed skink are listed as vulnerable. The spotted-tail quoll, Fleay's frog and giant barred-frog are listed as endangered.
The declaration of Guanaba IPA in November 2000 was made under World Conservation Union (IUCN) Category IV - Habitat/Species Management Area: Protected Area managed mainly for conservation through management intervention.
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