Peter Stanton

Peter Stanton
PSM
Stanton in 2004
Born
James Peter Stanton

1940
Shorncliffe, Queensland
NationalityAustralian
Alma mater
Known for
  • National Parks for Cape York Peninsula (1976)[7]
  • Project 'Rakes': a rapid appraisal of key and endangered sites, the Queensland case study (1977)[8]
  • Cape Melville incident (1993–1994)
  • The Rainforests of Cape York Peninsula (1995)[9]
  • The Vegetation of the Wet Tropics of Queensland bioregion (2005)[10]
SpouseKaren Stanton [6]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

James Peter Stanton PSM (born 23 April 1940) is an Australian landscape ecologist, fire ecologist, botanist and biogeographer who individually conducted systematic environmental resource surveys throughout Queensland 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 development under the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government.[11][12][13][14][15] For this work he became the first Australian to receive the IUCN Fred M. Packard Award in 1982.

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 handled by higher-ups in his organization.

Since 2003, Stanton has worked with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy as a fire and vegetation ecologist.[16][17][18]

  1. ^ "Packard Awardees". IUCN. 19 February 2016. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Award Extract - Australian Honours - James Peter Stanton". Australian Government - Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  3. ^ "James Peter Stanton". Australian Honours Search Facility: Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Wet Tropics Management Authority Honour Roll" – via Wet Tropics Management Authority.
  5. ^ "Robed and ready: 221 new Cairns graduates". James Cook University. 27 March 2023.
  6. ^ Stanton, James Peter & David James; Stott, Mike; Parsons, Mark (6 March 2014). "Fire exclusion and the changing landscape of Queensland's Wet Tropics Bioregion 1. The extent and pattern of transition". Australian Forestry. 77 (1): 51–57. doi:10.1080/00049158.2014.881702. S2CID 85235073 – via Taylor & Francis.
  7. ^ Stanton, J. P. (James Peter), 1940-; Australian Conservation Foundation (1976), National Parks for Cape York Peninsula, Australian Conservation Foundation{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Stanton, J.P.; Morgan, M.G. (27 April 1977). "Project 'Rakes': a rapid appraisal of key and endangered sites, the Queensland case study". The University of New England (Australia) School of Natural Resources – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ Stanton, J.P.; Fell, D.G. (27 April 1995). "The rainforests of Cape York Peninsula". Brisbane, Qld. : Dept. of Environment and Heritage – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ Stanton, J.P. & D.J. (27 April 2005). "Vegetation of the Wet Tropics of Queensland bioregion". Wet Tropics Management Authority – via Trove.
  11. ^ Fitzgerald, Ross (1984). A History of Queensland Part 2: '1957 to the Early 1980s: Conservative Monopoly'. University of Queensland Press. pp. 289–303. ISBN 0-7022-1734-4.
  12. ^ Wright, Judith (1977). The Coral Battleground. Thomas Nelson. ISBN 0170051668.
  13. ^ Tracey, J. G. (John Geoffrey); Gregg Borschmann (1994), John Tracey interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the People's forest oral history project, p. 44, retrieved 22 February 2021
  14. ^ Curtis, Syd (Herbert Sydney); Gregg Borschmann (1994), Herbert Sydney Curtis interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project, pp. 63, 77, 91, 92, 93, 101, 111, 161, 162, retrieved 22 February 2021
  15. ^ Stanton, J. P. (James Peter); Gregg Borschmann (1994), Peter Stanton interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project, pp. 40, 42, 63, 99, 100
  16. ^ Wildlife Matters (Issue 15), The Australian Wildlife Conservancy, December 2007, pp. 3, 22
  17. ^ Wildlife Matters (Issue 8), The Australian Wildlife Conservancy, October 2004, p. 6
  18. ^ Wildlife Matters (Issue 40), The Australian Wildlife Conservancy, November 2020, p. 27