23 July 2024 Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch Community Officer, Neil Andison, continues to campaign for the ban of enclosed yabby traps (such as opera house nets) in Queensland. Neil reported that ongoing dialogue with the Greens members of Parliament has been...
31 May 2024 Queensland’s treasured freshwater ecosystems are facing a crisis. Wildlife Queensland urgently asks for help to raise $100,000 by 30 June to protect these vital habitats and their unique wildlife. The plight of freshwater ecosystems Queensland’s...
29 April 2024 Wildlife Queensland has increased its push to ban opera house-style and funnel traps throughout Queensland. Despite past efforts to limit their use, these traps still pose a grave threat to air-breathing aquatic wildlife, resulting in avoidable deaths....
19 March 2024 Fisheries Queensland is inviting feedback from fishers and the wider community on recreational fishing reform options, including the proposed ban on opera house-style nets (enclosed yabby traps). These reform options are outlined in a discussion paper,...
28 July 2023 Wildlife Queensland is making an urgent plea to Queenslanders to support the Society’s campaign to ban the use of deadly opera house nets (enclosed yabby traps). For far too long, Queensland has allowed these horrific traps to take a toll on our unique...
16 August 2021 Keep an eye out for Australia’s strangest mammal during #platypusmonth August is Platypus Month, an initiative embraced by Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch program. Despite almost everyone knowing about the biological curiosity that is the world’s...
Wildlife Queensland has renewed its call for a state-wide ban on the use of enclosed yabby traps (opera house nets) in Queensland. Four Australian states have now implemented a full or phased ban on the use of the enclosed traps. New South Wales became the latest...
Members of Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch and Watergum met with the Minister for the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef and Minister for Science and Youth Affairs, the Hon Meaghan Scanlon MP, in late February to discuss platypus conservation issues in...
14 February 2019 At the ninth meeting of Australia’s Environment Ministers on 8 November 2019, an Agreed Statement was issued that they intend to pursue a nationally consistent approach to address the “negative impacts that ‘opera house’ yabby nets have on...
21 November 2019 Authors: Tamielle Brunt and Judith Vink Whilst on a recent walk at Eugene Street Reserve in Bellbird Park, South East Queensland, members of the Bellbird Park Preservation Group retrieved an abandoned enclosed yabby trap (opera house net) from...
On 27 July Wildlife Queensland called on the Minister for Agricultural Development and Fisheries to ban opera house traps and other enclosed yabby traps in Queensland, reactivating a 2009 campaign which unfortunately met with limited success. The Platypus Alliance for...
27 July 2018 Wildlife Queensland is ramping up its campaign against these deadly threats to our wildlife, partnering again with Qld Alliance for Platypus to advocate for a ban on opera-house-style traps and funnel traps. Wildlife Queensland first raised this issue in...
