{"id":128788,"date":"2025-11-11T01:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128788\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T01:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:33:08","slug":"influencer-fined-830-for-lighting-fire-on-world-heritage-listed-island-kgari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128788\/","title":{"rendered":"Influencer fined $830 for lighting fire on World Heritage-listed island K’gari"},"content":{"rendered":"

An influencer has been fined more than $834 for illegally lighting a fire on the World Heritage-listed K’gari (Fraser Island).<\/p>\n

Queensland’s Environment Department said the woman also received a warning for flying a drone to record video above a camping area, where use of drones is restricted.<\/p>\n

Campfires on K’gari are strictly prohibited, except in communal fire rings provided by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service at select camping areas when fire bans are not in place.<\/p>\n

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Fires are strictly prohibited on the World Heritage-listed island. (Supplied: Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation)<\/p>\n

Senior ranger Chad Hoult said content creators were not exempt from the rules.<\/p>\n

He said social media influencers were not an official source of information on K’gari’s regulations.<\/p>\n

“Disregarding these rules poses a serious threat to K’gari’s delicate environment, unique wildlife, and rich cultural heritage,” Mr Hoult said in a statement.<\/p>\n

In 2020, a bushfire burned for three months and devastated about half the island<\/a> after a campfire was not properly extinguished.<\/p>\n

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The woman was also warned for using a drone in a restricted area. (Supplied: Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation)<\/p>\n

“Illegal fires can quickly become bushfires that impact the island’s natural and cultural values and put lives at risk,” Mr Hoult said.<\/p>\n

“We are lucky this wasn’t the case with this fire. However, we have seen illegal campfires become significant bushfires on Mulgumpin (Moreton Island) and at Teewah.”<\/p>\n

Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation director Conway Burns is involved with cultural burns on the island.<\/p>\n

He urged all visitors to understand the regulations when visiting any national park as the consequences of bushfires, like those in 2020, were devastating.<\/p>\n

“Today it’s still suffering because it’s coming back wrong and sick,” Mr Burns said.<\/p>\n

“We need to help heal it by connecting with her [K’gari].”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An influencer has been fined more than $834 for illegally lighting a fire on the World Heritage-listed K’gari…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[8111,273,8987,2079,89244,14991,111,139,69,60935,147,14625,15601],"class_list":{"0":"post-128788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-bushfire","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-fines","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-fraser-island","13":"tag-influencers","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-rangers","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-summer","20":"tag-wide-bay"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}