• Parklife

    Amy Peden     |      January 13, 2024

    Recent tragedies in our national parks highlight the crucial need to reevaluate visitor management strategies to protect people from the wild – and themselves.

  • An ecological balance sheet for the Royal National Park

    Isabelle Dubach     |      September 9, 2021

    Professor Richard Kingsford will lead a new ecological health assessment of Australia’s oldest national park.

  • The great outdoors

    Open Forum     |      November 14, 2019

    Australia’s national parks are worth about $145 billion a year in the improved mental health of their visitors, according to initial estimates published by a team of Griffith University researchers.

  • Stick to the path to stay out of trouble in our National Parks

    Edmund Goh     |      December 28, 2018

    The main risks encountered when venturing into the wilderness – from falling off cliffs and waterfalls to deadly snakebites or getting lost – can all be reduced by one crucial piece of advice: stick to the path.