The search resumes for spotted-tailed quolls on the Sunshine Coast
6 Sept 2022 Wildlife Queensland’s Quoll Seekers Network (QSN) has been awarded $19,989 funding support from the Queensland Government’s Community Sustainability Action grants program to conduct a series of camera trap surveys to assess whether the endangered...
Wildlife Queensland’s Richmond Birdwing Conservation Network works with Redland City Council to bring back the Birdwing
© Canva NFP © Canva NFP 16 August 2022 In association with Redland City Council, Wildlife Queensland’s Richmond Birdwing Conservation Network (RBCN) is undertaking two new projects to help recolonise Vulnerable birdwing butterflies on the Redland Coast. Creating...
70 waterways in 7 years!
© Canva NFP © Canva NFP 25 July 2022 Author: Tamielle Brunt, PlatypusWatch Wildlife Queensland’s 2022 platypus environmental DNA (eDNA) survey has been one of the most important due to the major flooding events that have affected our waterways since the 2021...
State of the Environment Report reveals the sorry state we are in
22 July 2022 Australia’s new Federal Minister for the Environment released the latest State of the Environment Report — and what a state it is in! Produced in 2021 but withheld by the previous administration until after the election, the report is simultaneously...
Container for Change scheme has recycled 5 billion bottles!
© Canva NFP More than $500 million has gone back into the pockets of Queenslanders with the Palaszczuk Government announcing five billion containers have been refunded through its popular Containers for Change scheme. Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon said...
Queensland steps forward on polluting heavyweight plastics bags & coffee cups
7 July 2022 The decision by the Queensland Government to ban all disposable plastic shopping bags steps up the attack on polluting single-use plastic items, with the plan to introduce a Reusable Shopping Bag Standard to ensure all shopping bags...
A win for Sunshine Coast fauna
18 May 2022 Sunshine Coast wildlife is the winner in the recent announcement that Yurol Ringtail State Forest will be revegetated and become part of Tewantin National Park. On Tuesday, Environment Minister Scanlon announced that over 2400 ha of former state...
Download our comprehensive new guide to revegetating for gliders today!
6 May 2022 Exciting news … Queensland Glider Network (QGN) has launched a brand-new revegetation guide! Designed to assist landholders in protecting and recreating habitat for Australia’s largest gliding mammals — the southern and central greater glider (Petauroides...
Where is the political will to preserve our wildlife?
6 May 2022 Campaigns for the upcoming 2022 Federal Election on Saturday 21 May have passed the halfway mark. Given the widely reported faunal extinction crisis facing Australia, you might think the major political parties would be keen to outline strategies and...
Queensland Glider Network shines with greater glider events in bushfire-affected regions
4 May 2022 Wildlife Queensland’s Queensland Glider Network (QGN) is rolling out a series of free half-day workshops to encourage landholders to help conserve threatened greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders … and they’re so popular they’re attracting...