Planning even more plastic-reduction in the New Year
30 December 2021 Boomerang Alliance organisations like Wildlife Queensland are looking forward to a rewarding year of campaign work planned for 2022. 2021 has been a big year for Wildlife Queensland’s cooperation with Boomerang Alliance, as the alliance’s...Hinchinbrook channel is clear: discarded crabbing gear gone
22 December 2021 Hinchinbrook Channel has been cleared of dozens of discarded crab pots in a joint clean-up operation between fisheries officers and local Indigenous rangers. Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries and Minister for Rural...Interested in Animal Ethics in Schools? Reach Out to Register
The Queensland Schools Animal Ethics Committee (QSAEC) currently has vacancies for categories C and D members and has reached out to Wildlife Queensland to locate potential members in the Brisbane area. Looking for a Challenge? The QSAEC was established to...
Big things for brushies in 2022
21 December 2021 The New Year will bring new opportunities to help save Logan’s brush-tailed rock-wallabies, and a new Wildlife Queensland team member to champion their conservation. Following on from our 2019 brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata)...Exploration…? What Next for the Environment and its Wildlife?
17 December 2021 Released by Resources Minister Scott Stewart alongside a draft 30-year Resources Industry Development Plan, the 2021 Queensland Exploration Plan pinpoints an area of over 14,400 km2 in regional Queensland for exploration for oil and gas....Gliding into 2022
17 December 2021 Stars above, spotlight beams, nocturnal shrieks, and the sudden swoop of something overhead in the darkness – boobook, powerful owl or … glider? This year’s results from Wildlife Queensland’s glider conservation teams make all the bushwhacking...
Sightings Soar as Birdwings Return
9 December 2021 Summer is now upon us, but throughout late winter and spring, Wildlife Queensland’s Richmond Birdwing Conservation Network members have been eagerly watching their vines for signs of Richmond birdwing butterflies and their larvae. Anecdotal sightings...Queensland Expanding Single-Use Plastics Ban
6 December 2021 Wildlife Queensland and the Boomerang Alliance of 56 NGOs have welcomed the announcement of consultation on a second nation-leading tranche of single-use plastic items to be banned in Queensland. These items include problem plastics habitually littered...
Exploring Creek Critters and Post-Fire Platypus Survival in Canungra
2 December 2021 On Sunday 28 November, some 45 wildlife-lovers joined PlatypusWatch at Canungra School of Arts Hall for a presentation and hands-on learning session to find out more about platypuses, bushfire recovery, and waterbugs. Very little information exists...