Wildlife Queensland Renews Push to Ban Enclosed Yabby Traps in Qld
Wildlife Queensland has renewed its call for a state-wide ban on the use of enclosed yabby traps (opera house nets) in Queensland. Four Australian states have now implemented a full or phased ban on the use of the enclosed traps. New South Wales became the latest...
Urgent Protection Needed For Queensland’s Threatened Platypus Populations
Members of Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch and Watergum met with the Minister for the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef and Minister for Science and Youth Affairs, the Hon Meaghan Scanlon MP, in late February to discuss platypus conservation issues in...
Wildlife Queensland Upper Dawson February gathering
1 March 2021 Some of the WPSQ Upper Dawson gathering around the spring on Duke’s Plain taken while others were exploring around the creek. Author: Melanie Simmons, Wildlife Queensland Upper Dawson Branch Our Wildlife Queensland Upper Dawson Branch gathering on Duke’s...
Yellow-Bellied Glider Monitoring Success in Logan
Yellow-bellied glider. Image © Sam Horton Wildlife Queensland’s Yellow-Bellied Glider Project team has had amazing recent success locating yellow-bellied glider colonies by using Audiomoth acoustic monitors to record vocalisations made by the species in the...
2020-21 PIP Monitoring at North Brook Island
28 February 2021 Author: Liz Downes, Vice President, Wildlife Queensland Townsville Branch For the 56th successive year (yes, you read that correctly) a series of pied imperial-pigeon counts at North Brook Island was completed in February 2021. Long supported by the...
Clean Up Australia with Wildlife Queensland on 7 March
1 March 2021 Clean Up Australia Day, Australia’s largest community-based environmental event, is on Sunday, 7 March 2021. Wildlife Queensland branches are once again hosting Clean Up events throughout the state and we encourage residents to get involved. There has...
Call for citizen scientists: PlatypusWatch in the Dawson River
Wildlife Queensland’s Upper Dawson Branch and the PlatypusWatch Network are finalising plans to undertake an important platypus project in the Upper Dawson River during May 2021. The ‘PlatypusWatch and eDNA in the Dawson River’ project, proudly supported by the...
RBCN: Planting Vine Corridors to Connect Vulnerable Birdwing Butterfly Populations in SEQ
Wildlife Queensland’s Richmond Birdwing Conservation Network (RBCN) and Moreton Bay Regional Council (MBRC) hosted a birdwing butterfly vine workshop earlier this month for Land for Wildlife property owners in the Moreton Bay region. Held at Woodfordia, the event was...
Back from the Brink: the story of the Greater Glider
The Natura Pacific team, producers of the successful ‘Back from the Brink’ series, partnered up with Matt Cecil from Wildlife Queensland and Dr Teresa Eyre from the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science late in 2020 to produce an...
Thank You for Your Support: Quoll Quest Christmas Appeal
A massive thank you to our members and donors for supporting the Wildlife Queensland Quoll Quest Christmas Appeal 2020. As of 31 January 2021, you’ve helped raise $16,000 to fund surveys in identified bushland areas between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast to...