A socially-distanced, successful Wildlife Queensland AGM 2020
The Wildlife Queensland Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2020 was held on Saturday, 26 September at the Redlands City Lions Club in Cleveland. Whilst this year’s COVID compliant event was limited to 30 attendees, we received a good representation from local branches....
Quoll Seekers Network Extends Search for Elusive Spotted-Tailed Quoll
Wildlife Queensland’s Quoll Seekers Network (QSN) is continuing the search for the elusive spotted-tailed quoll in areas north of Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and into the Mary River Catchment – and they need your help! The spotted-tailed quoll is the largest...
2020 Queensland State Election Looms
In the lead-up to the State general election, Wildlife Queensland provides a roundup of election policies that may impact our environment and its wildlife over the coming four years. Queensland’s State general election is on Saturday, 31 October 2020, and early...
Wildlife Queensland Launches New Guide to Help Save Endangered Quoll
5 October 2020 Wildlife Queensland has today launched a new guide that provides information and advice to landholders, natural resource managers and the public about the endangered spotted-tailed quoll. Saving the Spotted-Tailed Quoll: A Landholder’s Guide is produced...
Wildlife Queensland Farewells a True Wildlife Warrior
Wildlife Queensland is deeply saddened to announce the passing of environmental campaigner and Upper Dawson Branch member Adam Charles Carr Clark on Sunday, 13 September 2020. Adam had a long association with Wildlife Queensland. Over the years he served in various...
South Australia bans single-use plastic takeaway items – who’s next?
With South Australia, the first state to ban key single-use plastic items such as straws, cutlery and beverage stirrers – it’s now urgent other states also move on this plastic pollution, the Boomerang Alliance of 52 groups said today. ‘We congratulate the South...
Planting for Wildlife Corridors in the Scenic Rim
During August, Wildlife Queensland Scenic Rim Branch members and volunteers commenced wildlife corridor plantings at Mt Alford and Wallaces Creek near Boonah in the Scenic Rim region. The corridor plantings are part of a larger project to connect Scenic Rim habitats...
Saving Species One Record at a Time: The Importance of Ongoing Monitoring
Author: Tamielle Brunt Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch Network has been monitoring local Queensland platypus populations since 2005. The Network was set up to engage the community about platypus conservation and encourage reporting of local observations....New project to put threatened SEQ gliders on the map
28 August 2020 Wildlife Queensland has launched a new Queensland Glider Network project aimed at understanding and documenting the distribution of yellow-bellied gliders in South East Queensland. The project will also document the distribution and occurrence of...Update: Single-use plastics in Queensland
17 August 2020 Author: Toby Hutcheon, Wildlife Queensland Campaigns Officer / Queensland Manager, Boomerang Alliance Further to the tabling of the Waste Reduction and Recycling (Plastic Items) Amendment Bill 2020 that introduced proposed bans on certain...