


Have you seen the world’s only aquatic monotreme?
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 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...
Urgent Protection Needed For Queensland’s Threatened Platypus Populations
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...