Tips to make pools, fences, and roadsides more fauna-friendly
Urban backyards and places where people live have structures for human convenience and safety. However, these structures may be inconvenient and unsafe for wildlife. Read these tips to make pools, fences, and roadsides more fauna-friendly. Swimming pools Dangers to...
Wildlife Queensland opposes relocation of endangered spectacled flying fox colony at Cairns City Library
29 May 2020 Australia’s vastly diminished Spectacled flying fox population faces a new threat to its survival following a recent federal decision granting the relocation of a significant roosting colony of spectacled flying foxes in Cairns. In April 2019, Wildlife...Red Imported Fire Ant Eradication Program marches on
28 May 2020 The Queensland Government’s Red Imported Fire Ant Eradication Program (the program) is continuing throughout South East Queensland. Fire ants are a category 1 restricted matter under the Biosecurity Act 2014 and as such the program is deemed an...Celebrating our volunteers: National Volunteer Week 2020
18 May 2020 Running from 18-24 May, National Volunteer Week is an annual celebration to acknowledge the generous contribution that volunteers make to our community. This year’s theme is “Changing Communities. Changing Lives”. Whilst COVID-19 restrictions mean...
Keep cafes, restaurants plastic-free
13 May 2020 Wildlife Queensland and its partner The Boomerang Alliance have welcomed the reopening of cafes, restaurants and food outlets, as long as they can be managed as COVID-safe places. “The key practices of these outlets must be to observe social...
More walking tracks and day-use areas in national parks reopen
15 May 2020 More day-use areas and walking tracks in national parks and state forests across Queensland will reopen this weekend, as part of the Stage One relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions. Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), Mulgumpin (Moreton Island) and...
Wildlife Queensland Launches Fifth year of Platypus eDNA Surveys
2020 marks Wildlife Queensland’s fifth year of platypus environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys[efn_note]eDNA is nuclear or mitochondrial DNA that is released from an organism into the environment. As part of their everyday activity, aquatic animals shed DNA from their...
May update: Message from Peter Ogilvie
5 May 2020 At present, in our isolation, we are confronted, surrounded, cajoled and assailed by words (spoken and written) in the form of messages, demands, news items, regulatory requirements, stories, TV/radio entertainment and many more. I have always...
Keeping our environment and wildlife top of mind during the COVID-19 crisis
8 May 2020 As the world negotiates the challenging and ever-evolving social, economic and health impacts of the global novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many people are contemplating what kind of economy and society they want in the post-pandemic world. In...