Lamington National Park: Queensland's First Great Conservation Gesture
Gazetted in July 1915, Lamington National Park represents Queensland's foundational act of conservation conscience — a permanent declaration that some landscapes exist beyond the reach of the axe.
Walking Lamington: The Track Network That Has Introduced Generations to Rainforest
For nearly a century, Lamington's 160-kilometre track network — engineered with deliberate humility — has been Queensland's primary classroom for rainforest literacy, civic wonder, and the practice of slow attention.
Binna Burra and O'Reilly's: The Eco-Tourism Lodges That Have Served Lamington for a Century
For nearly a century, two lodges have anchored Lamington National Park's relationship with the public — one born from the conservation movement, the other from a farming family stranded by it.
Lamington's Birds and Wildlife: One of Australia's Great Biodiversity Refuges
Across 20,600 hectares of subtropical and temperate rainforest on the Queensland-New South Wales border, Lamington shelters a density of rare and threatened wildlife found almost nowhere else on Earth.
Robert Collins and the Campaign to Protect Lamington: Queensland's Conservation Origin Story
Before Lamington National Park existed, one grazier's encounter with Yellowstone set a decades-long campaign in motion — a story that defines how Queensland learned to value what it might have destroyed.
Antarctic Beech and Gondwana: The Ancient Forests That Make Lamington Irreplaceable
The Antarctic beech forests of Lamington are not merely old trees — they are living fragments of a supercontinent, holding a lineage that predates the separation of Australia from Antarctica.
The 2019 Bushfires at Lamington: When Queensland's Wet Forests Burned
In September 2019, fires swept into Lamington National Park during conditions unprecedented in living memory, forcing a reckoning with what climate change means for forests once considered too wet to burn.