Container for Change scheme has recycled 5 billion bottles!
© Canva NFP More than $500 million has gone back into the pockets of Queenslanders with the Palaszczuk Government announcing five billion containers have been refunded through its popular Containers for Change scheme. Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon said...
Queensland steps forward on polluting heavyweight plastics bags & coffee cups
7 July 2022 The decision by the Queensland Government to ban all disposable plastic shopping bags steps up the attack on polluting single-use plastic items, with the plan to introduce a Reusable Shopping Bag Standard to ensure all shopping bags...
A win for Sunshine Coast fauna
18 May 2022 Sunshine Coast wildlife is the winner in the recent announcement that Yurol Ringtail State Forest will be revegetated and become part of Tewantin National Park. On Tuesday, Environment Minister Scanlon announced that over 2400 ha of former state...
Download our comprehensive new guide to revegetating for gliders today!
6 May 2022 Exciting news … Queensland Glider Network (QGN) has launched a brand-new revegetation guide! Designed to assist landholders in protecting and recreating habitat for Australia’s largest gliding mammals — the southern and central greater glider (Petauroides...
Where is the political will to preserve our wildlife?
6 May 2022 Campaigns for the upcoming 2022 Federal Election on Saturday 21 May have passed the halfway mark. Given the widely reported faunal extinction crisis facing Australia, you might think the major political parties would be keen to outline strategies and...
Queensland Glider Network shines with greater glider events in bushfire-affected regions
4 May 2022 Wildlife Queensland’s Queensland Glider Network (QGN) is rolling out a series of free half-day workshops to encourage landholders to help conserve threatened greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders … and they’re so popular they’re attracting...
Threatened Species Recovery Plans – not for the faint-hearted
3 May 2022 Author: Daryl Dickson It was a strange but welcome feeling the day Wildlife Queensland’s Cassowary Coast–Hinchinbrook Branch received final notification that the new National Mahogany Glider Recovery Plan had finally been legislated by the Federal...
This World Curlew Day, show your support
21 April 2022 Contribute to shorebird conservation with a new storybook World Curlew Day was initiated by author Mary Colwell in 2017 and is celebrated annually on 21 April to raise awareness of these beautiful migratory waders and their plight. Today,...
Forget ‘bunnies’, it’s time for some native goodies …
14 April 2021 It’s a dentist’s favourite time of year. Kids get a long break and a sugar rush, and parents get … well … let’s just say we might need a spell in the garden! Of course, we don’t expect Aussie natives will ever topple the world’s favourite Easter...
Greater Glider ‘Dine & Shine’ Crows Nest
‘Dine and Shine’ with Wildlife Queensland at Crows Nest with our Queensland Glider Network FREE half-day workshop, dinner, wildlife presentation, cultural display, and optional spotlighting event. Join guest presenters Paul Revie (Qld Glider Network),...