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The Hon Steven Dickson MP, Minister for National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing introduced this Bill into the Legislative Assembly on 13 November 2012. The Bill has been referred to the Health and Community Services Committee for consideration and a report back to Parliament by 2 February 2013. Photo © Wildlife Queensland The Committee is …

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) has served us well at times. This legislation provides the Federal Government the powers to Golden bell frogPhoto © Lance Jurd assess and approve major development that will impact on listed species, national environmental significant places as well as nuclear actions such as uranium mining …

Wildlife Queensland together with many like-minded people recently called upon the Sunshine Coast Regional Council to protect Woondum National Park. The future for Woondum National Park?Photo © Wildlife Queensland Woondum National Park is not only home to threatened species and significant regional ecosystems, it  provides opportunities for people to interact and enjoy nature. Unfortunately people’s …

Wildlife Queensland applauds the funding boost announced today by Andrew Powell Minister for the Environment and Heritage Protection. Photo © Wildlife Queensland ‘This $800 000, part of a $26.5 million funding package over 4 years satisfies a pre election commitment of the LNP Government’ said Des Boyland, spokesperson for Wildlife Queensland. Wildlife Queensland gives credit …

This disturbing image is of a female mahogany glider found Photo © Daryl Dickson dead today on a barbed wire fence along Ellerbeck Road, Cardwell. The dangers of barbed wire fences to wildlife are well documented. Barbed wire is both an animal welfare and conservation issue. It is recognised as a threatening process in recovery …

On 7 September, Wildlife Queensland took conservation to the people in the Queen Street Mall, Brisbane. Images and examples of the spotted-tailed quoll, the northern Alina and Sam from Wildlife Queensland on Threatened Species DayPhoto © WIldlife Queensland quoll, the mahogany glider and the Richmond birdwing butterfly were profiled, with their distribution, conservation status, requirements …

On 7 September 2012 – Threatened Species Day – the new LNP Queensland Government, saw fit to announce amendments to the Nature Conservation (Wildlife Management) regulation 2006 to permit the taking of 4 species of flying fox in accordance with an approved code and operational policy under a lethal Damage Mitigation Permit (DMP). The species …

Currently it is a waiting game. Date for submissions on the proposal to declare the Commonwealth Marine Reserves has passed. Wildlife Queensland made a final plea to simplify the zoning around the Osprey, Shark and Vema reefs and extend the area further west. Lion FishPhoto © Jasen Anderson It was also recommended that the marine …

The Queensland LNP Government has been in control for over 6 months, the budget has been handed down and public Flying foxes are one target of the LNP government’s first 6 months in officePhoto © Nick Edwards servant numbers reduced. How is the natural environment and its wildlife weathering this time of change? The answer …

Threatened Species Day (Friday 7 September) is being marked this year by the re-introduction of government-sanctioned killing of two threatened species in Queensland – the Grey- Photo © J. Miles headed and Spectacled flying-foxes. Four years ago (in 2008), the Queensland Government banned the shooting of flying-foxes after an assessment by the government’s Animal Welfare …