Rangers pounce after trees felled for dodgy island hut

A group had cleared trees in an island national park and used them to make a hut, authorities say. (HANDOUT/Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation)

A group of people have been fined after cutting down trees in a national park to build an illegal island holiday hut equipped with a barbecue area and verandah.

They constructed the hut on Curtis Island National Park off the central Queensland coast, conducting a range of illegal activities including hunting with firearms before being caught by rangers.