World Wildlife Day 2020

World Wildlife Day 2020

  3 March 2020   Today is World Wildlife Day! Proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 December 2013 and held on 3 March each year, World Wildlife Day is a global celebration of the beautiful and richly diverse forms of wild animals and plants...
Wildlife Queensland supports call to mandate recycling target 

Wildlife Queensland supports call to mandate recycling target 

2 March 2020   Wildlife Queensland supports a call on the federal government by the Boomerang Alliance and WWF-Australia to use today’s National Plastics Summit to announce it will mandate that 100 per cent of plastic packaging will be reusable, compostable or...
Step up to Clean Up Australia!

Step up to Clean Up Australia!

  Clean Up Australia Day is on Sunday, 1 March 2020. It’s the perfect opportunity to join with family, friends, neighbours and colleagues to remove all the rubbish accumulating in your local park, bushland, beaches and waterways before it kills our wildlife. Over...
Wildlife conservation work more important than ever

Wildlife conservation work more important than ever

14 February 2020   The unprecedented 2019/20 Australian bushfire season has burned an estimated 15.6 million acres and killed an estimated 1 billion animals[efn_note]Samuel, S (2020), A staggering 1 billion animals are now estimated dead in Australia’s fires,...
Extension to submissions for EPBC Act review

Extension to submissions for EPBC Act review

19 February 2020   The submission date for the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) review has been extended to 17 April 2020. Professor Graeme Samuel AC, the independent reviewer of the EPBC Act, stated that many people who...
National approach to ban opera house traps on the cards

National approach to ban opera house traps on the cards

14 February 2019   At the ninth meeting of Australia’s Environment Ministers on 8 November 2019, an Agreed Statement was issued that they intend to pursue a nationally consistent approach to address the “negative impacts that ‘opera house’ yabby nets have on...
Love was in the air on February Batty Boat Cruise

Love was in the air on February Batty Boat Cruise

3 February 2020 It was all about spreading the love on our February Batty Boat Cruise last night. Passengers enjoyed the beautiful sights of Brisbane and some delicious nosh and drinks from the Batty Boat bar as we left the Mowbray Park Ferry Terminal at East Brisbane...

Happy batty Christmas!

20 December 2019 Baby Indi – 4-week-old orphaned black flying-fox. Image © Tamielle Brunt The final Batty Boat Cruise for 2019 was an evening of relaxed cruising on the Brisbane River, a stunning sunset and flying-fox fly-out spectacular! At dusk, we circled the...

Aquatic wildlife seeking refuge at risk of entrapment

21 November 2019 Authors: Tamielle Brunt and Judith Vink Whilst on a recent walk at Eugene Street Reserve in Bellbird Park, South East Queensland, members of the Bellbird Park Preservation Group retrieved an abandoned enclosed yabby trap (opera house net) from...

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