Meet Pollyanna the Platypus
Pollyanna the platypus is a part of important population research being conducted by Tamielle Brunt, PhD Candidate from the University of Queensland and PlatypusWatch ecologist for Wildlife Queensland. This research aims to determine how platypus populations are...
Wildlife Australia Mother’s Day 2021 Gift Subscription Offer
Be ‘Inspired by Nature’ this Mother’s Day Give mum the gift of nature with a Wildlife Australia gift subscription this Mother’s Day and receive a set of 8 beautiful Steve Parish booklets worth $79.60 FREE with any new Australian gift print subscription*. Offer valid...
2021: Single-Use Plastic On The Way Out
After many years of community action to reduce plastic pollution, 2021 promises to be the year that our state and territory Governments make a start to reduce problem takeaway plastic items. Five jurisdictions – South Australia, Queensland, the Australian Capital...
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...
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...