Brush-tailed rock-wallaby project update – September 2019

Brush-tailed rock-wallaby project update – September 2019

5 September 2019   Author: Alesia Dyer As part of Wildlife Queensland’s project to improve and increase foraging habitat for an important colony of brush-tailed rock-wallabies (BTRW) in the Flinders–Goolman Conservation Estate in South East Queensland, our...
Spotlight on: WPSQ’s Student Placement Program

Spotlight on: WPSQ’s Student Placement Program

Since 2014, Wildlife Queensland has hosted students from a range of educational institutions seeking placement opportunities in the environmental conservation industry. Students placed with Wildlife Queensland undertake projects in policy development, wildlife...

Wildlife Australia Father’s Day Promotion

This Father’s Day give dad the gift of nature all year long with our special subscription offer*! Subscribe to Wildlife Australia between 25 August – 1 September 2019 and receive a FREE Batty Boat Cruise family voucher (2 adults + 3 kids) worth $100*. Not only...

Is Brisbane’s platypus population disappearing?

9 August 2019   On-going monitoring of platypus populations using multiple survey methods will provide information vital to the conservation of this iconic species. Recent research suggests that declines in Australia’s platypus population have been underestimated...

WPSQ Annual Dinner – Early Bird Ticket Prize Draw

Book your Early Bird tickets to the WPSQ Annual Dinner 2019 and go into the draw to WIN a Dymocks voucher worth $100! Time is running out to SAVE 12% with Early Bird tickets to the Wildlife Queensland Annual Dinner with Mike Archer! Book your tickets on or before 31...

Petition to stop koala habitat destruction

Environmental harm and threats to our wildlife can occur at different scales and appropriate control or enforcement can involve different levels of government ‒ Commonwealth, State or Local. At times action is required at the national level, in other situations at the...

Mixed bill of health for the Great Barrier Reef

26 July 2019   The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has released its annual report for 2018/19 on the health of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). This long-term monitoring started in 1985 and clearly demonstrates the impact numerous disturbances...

Brisbane’s nature reserves at risk

26 July 2019   Brisbane’s conservation areas and nature reserves could soon be at risk of legal use by mountain biking and the predicable risk of illegal track creation. As part of a Brisbane Off-Road Cycling project, Brisbane City Council (BCC) is currently...

Australia’s floral extinction crisis

26 July 2019 In May 2019, a United Nations report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services reported one-eighth of the world’s species — more than a million — are threatened with extinction. Five direct causes were...

Plastic Free Council Event Guide released

23 July 2019   Wildlife Queensland’s partner, The Boomerang Alliance, has released a comprehensive Plastic Free Council Event Guide to provide councils with advice on how to reduce plastic use as part of tackling plastic pollution. The Guide is also available to...

Glider corridor project update ‒ July 2019

16 July 2019   Thanks to the generous donations from our members and supporters to Wildlife Queensland’s March 2019 Squirrel Glider Appeal, our glider corridor project is surging ahead. Wildlife Queensland and Wildlife Queensland Scenic Rim Branch have been busy...

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