Act now to save Queensland’s platypus and other aquatic wildlife!
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...
Platypus Month kicks off with research updates and a new team of conservation researchers
© Wildlife Queensland Images (from left to right): Australia’s iconic platypus; Tamielle Brunt and Dr Annabel Smith. 27 July 2023 | Author: Tamielle Brunt In celebration of Platypus Month this August, Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch Project Officer,...
Exciting updates from PlatypusWatch
30 June 2023 Welcome to the latest news from PlatypusWatch. While trying to complete her PhD thesis, platypus ecologist Tamielle Brunt and her team have been busy bees these last few months, creating lots of fantastic news to share with you. ABC News article Wildlife...
The occupancy model helps platypus detection accuracy
23 May 2023 Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch has commenced its annual platypus monitoring survey in South East Queensland using the environmental DNA (eDNA) detection method. This year will be the program’s eighth consecutive year of platypus eDNA monitoring across...
Platypus Christmas appeal wrap-up
17 January 2023 A BIG thank you to our members and supporters for helping to protect and conserve the iconic platypus this festive season. More than 118 generous people donated to our Platypus Christmas Appeal, and we are beyond excited to announce that the total...
Australia without the platypus – what a damning thought!
© Slowmotiongli from Getty Images. 15 November 2022 Wildlife Queensland has launched its annual Christmas appeal focused on a species that is arguably among the most bizarre in the world — the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Considered a hoax when a specimen...
Supporting waterway health this National Water Week
18 October 2022 National Water Week, held every third week in October, is an annual event dedicated to building awareness of the value of water in Australia and aims to inspire individuals, communities and organisations to take action to help protect and conserve this...
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...
Will our top fossil be a platypus?
11 April Tourism Minister Stirling Hinchliffe has announced that Queenslanders will be able to pick their favourite fossil to add to Queensland’s nine official emblems from April 11 – and one of them is an ancient platypus. After feedback from museums, tourism...
A united front for platypus recovery
1o March 2022 Just before the recent flooding hit, late last month Lockyer Valley organisations and locals invited Tamielle Brunt from Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch Network to speak at a workshop about platypuses and environmental DNA (eDNA). Very little...