Banking on the birdwing

Banking on the birdwing

Wildlife Queensland’s Richmond Birdwing Conservation Network is proud to have been selected as one of 12 recipients of a Bank Australia 2018 Customer Grant. Last month, 12 Bank Australia community customers received grants totalling $110,000 for projects designed to...

Great news, there is hope!

“We need to have hope in a healthier and sustainable future,” says Lindy Frazer, early donor to Wildlife Queensland’s EOFY appeal dedicated to reducing single-use plastic waste in Queensland for good. Apparently, Lindy’s not the only one focussing on the positives...

Three thumbs up for Projects!

Good news has come in threes for our Projects Team lately. Here’s the lowdown on our latest thumbs-ups in the field… Not only was it exciting to see a greater glider finally take up residence in one of the nest boxes installed on Brisbane’s north side as part of...

Thank you Bulimba Fashion Festival!

Wildlife Queensland wishes to congratulate the Brisbane Fashion Festival on a wildly successful event and sincerely thank its organisers, sponsors and attendees for their generous support of the Society. “It was the most perfect day!” said event organiser Shannon...

We launch The Next Step: Against Waste!

The decision by Brisbane City Council to ban certain single-use plastic items commonly littered at Council events is a step in the right direction according to Wildlife Queensland, and was well-timed to highlight our current campaign to continue reducing the impact of...

New program targets red imported fire ants

24 May 2018 Red Imported Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) were first detected in Brisbane in February 2001 but may have been here much earlier. Native to several South American countries, fire ants have now spread far and wide including to several Asian countries that...

Greater exposure for our ‘flying teddy bears’

US-based digital media brand for animal people, The Dodo, recently highlighted the work of our dedicated Queensland Glider Network (QGN) in saving the habitat of these little-known “flying teddy bears”. “This is such a magnificent animal that most of the...

Kangaroo: A love-hate story

Wildlife Queensland is aware of the film ‘Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story’ being screened currently. Wildlife Queensland has been contacted by the Department of Environment and Science advising of concerns with how their cooperation has been portrayed in the film....

Plastic: The Next Step is vital

When Wildlife Queensland finally succeeded late last year in its appeal to the State Government to introduce a ban on single-use plastic bags in Queensland we knew it was only the first step. As The Next Step in our critical war on waste, Wildlife Queensland is...

Success at last!

After four months of nest box monitoring and some seemingly disappointing early results, the Queensland Glider Network is celebrating the recent occupancy of a nest box in Brisbane’s north by a greater glider. The QGN greater glider nest box project has been in full...

Bulimba Fashion Festival goes wild(life)

We are so excited to announce that this year’s Bulimba Fashion Festival is going wild and green with Wildlife Queensland one of the event’s two beneficiary charities! And if that’s not incentive enough for our members and supporters to go along on 1...

Thank you Pure Sands!

The pleasure was all ours on 27 April as President Peter Ogilvie accepted a $1000 donation on Wildlife Queensland’s behalf from Noosa based jewellery company Pure Sands. Visiting Head Office to present the oversized cheque in person, business owners Tammy and...

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