Act now to save Queensland’s platypus and other aquatic wildlife!

Act now to save Queensland’s platypus and other aquatic wildlife!

28 Jul 2023

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...
Have you seen the world’s only aquatic monotreme?

Have you seen the world’s only aquatic monotreme?

16 Aug 2021

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 Renews Push to Ban Enclosed Yabby Traps in Qld

Wildlife Queensland Renews Push to Ban Enclosed Yabby Traps in Qld

5 Mar 2021

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...
National approach to ban opera house traps on the cards

National approach to ban opera house traps on the cards

14 Feb 2020

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...

Aquatic wildlife seeking refuge at risk of entrapment

23 Dec 2019

21 November 2019 Authors: Tamielle Brunt and Judith Vink Two Eastern Water Dragons trapped in an enclosed yabby trap. One drowned the other exhausted and transported to the RSPCA. Image © Bellbird Park Preservation Group Whilst on a recent walk at Eugene Street...

Opera house trap appeal rejected

4 Oct 2018

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...

Opera house traps have to go!

27 Jul 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 2009 when it...

Opera house traps: the threat continues – August 2017

25 Aug 2017

Opera House traps are still causing the drowning death of platypus and water rats in creeks and waterways across the country. Does current legislation governing the use of opera house traps have any impact or is it too confusing? Are the traps too affordable and...

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