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followed by ground-truthing and stratification into 72 separate forest types. 140 sample plots were established encompassing each forest type and within each plot the full range of botanical species was identified and recorded along with the links between each ecosystem and the soils of the sites they occupy. The study also included a review of the conservation status of the various rainforest types, identifying the need for additional reserves, critical management issues and recommended management actions. ‘The Rainforests of Cape York Peninsula' was later republished by The Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management at

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Director for several months after having stood in the path of bulldozers in order to protect both the lives of protestors and what he considered to be the most significant tracts of rainforest. Due to public outcry as well as threats of broadscale strike among employees of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Stanton was reinstated to the Regional Directorship at the recommendation of the Public Service Board in 1984 and remained in the position until he returned to full-time scientific field work in 1988.

2356: 516:, to leave the matter in the hands of the police rather than immediately inform the DEH head office in Cairns. Stanton did not trust DEH senior management and feared that Shears might become the victim of "political interference". The vehicle was soon discovered to be connected to key political figures within the then Labor Government. The events were to culminate in a political scandal that came to be variously known as the Foxtail Palm Affair or the 348:, an actor. Stanton would later describe the sand island landscapes of his childhood around Moreton Bay as "unspoiled paradises of forest, swamp, flowering heath, giant sandhills, and seemingly endless surf and still water beaches" citing the subsequent broad-scale development of many such environments on the South-Eastern coastal fringe of Queensland in the 1960s as an early motivating influence upon his conservation work. 389:

conservation" whilst also identifying and recommending the protection of a number of additional endangered habitats both within and beyond the lowland areas. The early conservation work conducted in the Wet Tropics by Stanton, along with that of Webb and Tracey, was instrumental to the later protection of many rare and threatened landscapes within the region, including the lowland rainforests of the

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During his career within the Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service Stanton was twice threatened with dismissal by the Queensland Government. In 1983, during the construction of the road through the Cape Tribulation National Park to Bloomfield he was suspended from the position of Regional

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whilst working for the National Parks department of Forestry (Qld.) from 1967–1974. He carried out his assessments in a range of dissimilar landscapes leading to the identification and protection of many critically threatened ecosystems across the state during a period of rapid and widespread land

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bioregion resulting in the publication of the research report ‘The Rainforests of Cape York Peninsula' in 1995. Taking the form of a systematic ecological survey and mapping project, the study examined the full range of rainforest areas in the region with initial designation on aerial photographs

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leading to the identification and description of 250 distinct ecosystem types in the region. The project built upon previous 1:100,000 vegetation mapping (Tracey and Webb 1975) providing finer and more accurate vegetation mapping accompanied by a series of reports describing the main vegetation

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He was involved in two incidents where implemented or proposed disciplinary actions became prominent controversies. The first began with him standing in the path of bulldozers, the other with ordering that a vehicle and items seized from a smuggler be turned over to the police rather than being

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which had been confined to the lowland areas of the region on account of the extreme development pressures which were placed on the lowlands from the mid-1950s onwards. Stanton's assessments confirmed that "the areas Webb and Tracey had identified were still some of the highest priorities for

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and Ray Arnett amongst other delegates representing 25 countries. The congress was to result in the commitment to protect areas of virgin rainforest in Queensland under park status by the premier of the state as well as the recommendation for the inclusion of the Great Barrier Reef on the

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until, in 1967, he was transferred to the National Parks branch of the Queensland Forestry Department. His transfer was a result of the interest he had shown in National Parks while working in Mackay, and his nomination of and the subsequent gazettal of

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Later, in 1994, Stanton was recommended for disciplinary action by the State Government after he ordered that a vehicle containing guns and chainsaws which were suspected of being used for the purpose of smuggling the seeds of the threatened

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types of each mapsheet area, their understory types, disturbance histories and their links to the geology of the sites they occupy. In 2023, in conjunction with an Honorary Doctorate in Science which was awarded to Stanton by the

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Fire regimes and fire management of rainforest communities across northern Australia - 'Flammable Australia The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent' Chapter 14. PP. 329-344

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J. P. Thomson oration: The neglected lands: Recent changes in the ecosystems of Cape York Peninsula and the challenge of their management. Queensland Geographical Society Vol 7

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A study of the coast and adjacent lowlands of Queensland: availability of land for national park purposes, central section (Shoalwater Bay to Ingham), proposals 5-12

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be sent to the Cooktown Police Station. Stanton had advised Department of Environment and Heritage officer Pat Shears, who had confiscated the vehicle inside the

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spanning two reports which were published by Queensland Forestry in 1974. The reports reinforced and extended the 1965 conservation assessments of Dr.

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Fire management on National Parks in a range of tropical environments. A manager's perspective - Fire Research in Rural Queensland (éd. B. R. Roberts)

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area and its ongoing ecological management. His conservation work in the Wet Tropics and Northern Queensland contributed to Stanton being awarded the

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The high rainfall areas of central Queensland: an investigation into the adequacy or otherwise of existing national parks, and some further proposals

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A study of the coast and adjacent lowlands of Queensland: availability of land for national park purposes, southern section, proposals 1-4

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Lakefield National Park : past and present management practices and their relationship to its present environmental condition

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of Australia in 1996 for "outstanding public service to natural system protection and conservation planning" and the Australian

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Webb, Leonard (1966). "The Identification and Conservation of Habitat Types in the Wet Tropical Lowlands of North Queensland".

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From 1992 to 1994, Stanton, accompanied by botanist David Fell, led the first major study of the rainforest ecosystems of the

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Lavarack, P. S. (Peter S.); Stanton, J. P. (James Peter), 1940-; Queensland. National Parks and Wildlife Service (1975),

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Herbert Sydney Curtis interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project

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Herbert Sydney Curtis interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project

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Herbert Sydney Curtis interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project

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Herbert Sydney Curtis interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project

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A report on Fraser Island: natural history, land use, land classification, and a proposed framework for its management

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Queensland Conservation Council; Stanton, J. P. (James Peter); Gordon, Claridge; Davies, Kerry (joint ed.) (1977),

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Peter Stanton interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project

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Peter Stanton interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project

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Peter Stanton interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project

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Peter Stanton interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project

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Peter Stanton interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project

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Peter Stanton interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project

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in 2001 for "a long and distinguished public service career contributing to conservation of the Wet Tropics".

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The Australian Wet Tropics: centre of plant diversity ('World Centres of Plant Diversity' Pages 500-506)

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the same year. His oration ‘The Wilderness of Cape York Peninsula’ was delivered alongside addresses by

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Report on the conservation status of the remaining habitats of the wet tropical lowlands of Queensland

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In recognition of more than 60 years exceptional service to forest ecology and conservation planning

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A proposed system of national parks for Queensland coastal areas (Bundaberg to the Daintree River)

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Project 'Rakes': a rapid appraisal of key and endangered sites, the Queensland case study (1977)

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In 1980 Stanton was invited to address the second World Wilderness Congress which was held in

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Lakefield National Park : resource information and its management implications: a report

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For his conservation work in the 1960s and 70s he became the first Australian to receive the

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Vegetation survey and mapping of Cape York Peninsula. Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy

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Stanton, J. P. (James Peter); Teece, R. J; Queensland. Parks and Wildlife Service (1996),

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