Queensland is the second-largest state in Australia. As at 2020, it contained more than 1,000 protected areas. In August 2023, it was estimated a total of 14.5 million hectares or 8.38% of Queensland's landmass was protected.
List of terrestrial protected areas
Conservation Parks
Conservation Reserves
Feature Protection Areas
National Parks
Resources Reserves
Scientific Areas
List of marine protected areas
Marine protected areas within the Queensland jurisdiction consist of fish habitat areas declared under the Fisheries Act 1994 and marine parks declared under the Marine Parks Act 2004.
Fish habitat areas
Fish habitat areas are listed in two lists - 'A' and 'B'.
List 'A'
- Annan River
- Baffle Creek
- Beelbi
- Bowling Green Bay
- Broad Sound
- Burrum
- Cape Palmerston - Rocky Dam
- Cawarral Creek
- Cleveland Bay
- Colosseum Inlet
- Corio Bay
- Dallachy Creek
- Deception Bay
- Edgecumbe Bay
- Eight Mile Creek
- Elliott River
- Escape River
- Eurimbula
- Fitzroy River
- Hay's Inlet
- Hinchinbrook
- Hull River
- Jumpinpin-Broadwater
- Kauri Creek
- Kinkuna
- Kippa-Ring
- Maaroom
- Margaret Bay "Wuthathi
- Maroochy River
- Meunga Creek
- Moreton Banks
- Morning Inlet - Bynoe River
- Murray River
- Myora - Amity Banks
- Nassau River
- Noosa River
- Peel Island
- Pine River Bay
- Princess Charlotte Bay
- Pumicestone Channel
- Repulse
- Rodds Harbour
- Sand Bay
- Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill
- Silver Plains
- Staaten-Gilbert
- Starcke River (Ngulun)
- Susan River
- Temple Bay
- Tin Can Inlet
- Trinity Inlet
- Tully River
- West Hill
- Wreck Creek
List 'B'
- Annan River
- Barr Creek
- Bassett Basin
- Beelbi
- Bohle River
- Burdekin
- Burrum
- Cape Palmerston - Rocky Dam
- Cattle-Palm Creek
- Colosseum Inlet
- Coombabah
- Coomera
- Currumbin Creek
- Deception Bay
- Edgecumbe Bay
- Fraser Island
- Half Moon Creek
- Halifax
- Kolan River
- Margaret Bay "Wuthathi"
- Maroochy River
- Midge
- Noosa River
- Pimpama
- Pine River Bay
- Pumicestone Channel
- Rodds Harbour
- Seventeen Seventy-Round Hill
- Starcke River (Ngulun)
- Tallebudgera Creek
- Trinity Inlet
- West Hill
- Yorkeys Creek
Marine parks
The Queensland jurisdiction only included the following three marine parks as of 2016; the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is located within the Australian government's jurisdiction.
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