Presented on 13 June, the 2017-18 Queensland State Budget has committed almost $275M over a five-year period to the environment. Priorities for funding include the addressing of climate change, protecting the Great Barrier Reef, enforcing stronger environmental...
23 June 2017 Wildlife Queensland feels strongly that support for The Adani Carmichael coal mine is not only misguided but reflective of yesterday’s thinking. With the challenges being presented by climate change, new coal mines are not what we need. It is time to...
Wildlife Queensland welcomed this month the tabling of the Waste Reduction and Recycling Amendment Bill 2017 into the Queensland Parliament. The bill legislates a ban on lightweight plastics bags and the introduction of a Container Refund Scheme, both in 2018, and has...
Wildlife Queensland invites you to an afternoon and evening dedicated to our wildlife and the ways it is impacted by the climate of change in which we now live. Join us for the symposium, the dinner, or both, as Wildlife Queensland presents a cutting-edge...
Wildlife Queensland is excited to have been invited to the launch of the Statewide Regional Ecosystems Maps and Information Systems on Tuesday, 30 May at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha. The completion of this project is a significant achievement and...
As a volunteer caretaker of the Bukkulla Reserve – the largest (over 1800 hectares) and most environmentally significant property of the lands under Wildlife Land Fund Limited (WLFL) management and for which the WLFL is the Sole Trustee – I was seeking...
Flying foxes or mega-bats are in urgent need of a refreshed image in the eyes of the broader community. The four species – black, grey-headed, spectacled, and little red – occur in Queensland, though unfortunately, it appears populations are in decline. In the...
28 Apri 2017 On 23 March Network Ten’s Totally Wild filmed another segment involving the work of WPSQ’s PlatypusWatch program, this time to give its young viewers an insight into the importance of eDNA surveying in the search for the elusive platypus. As informative...
Marsupials hold a certain notoriety in the animal kingdom. Characterized by premature birth and continued development on the mother’s lower belly, marsupials make up most of the native mammals found in Australia. Over 40,000 years ago, many of Australia’s marsupials...
Interactions between humans and wildlife are an unavoidable occurrence, with negative outcomes ranging from fright to minor injury to the unfortunate loss of life as has recently occurred in north Queensland. A key endeavour of the increased global push for wildlife...
Wildlife Queensland has welcomed the announcement that Retail First, owner of 20 shopping centres across south-east Queensland, will ban the use of helium balloons, and calls for other retailers to follow suit. Retail First acted quickly and responsibly when it became...
After 6 months of collaborative on-ground work Wildlife Queensland’s Bridging the Gap appeal to reconnect and restore the north Queensland habitat of the endangered mahogany glider is seeing signs of early success, with the first happy snaps gliding in! “Without...
