Richmond Birdwing Conservation Network Richmond birdwing butterfly planting workshop In partnership with Moreton Bay Regional Council, Wildlife Queensland’s Richmond Birdwing Conservation Network (RBCN) held a vine planting workshop for bush care volunteers and Land...
Pollyanna the platypus is a part of important population research being conducted by Tamielle Brunt, PhD Candidate from the University of Queensland and PlatypusWatch ecologist for Wildlife Queensland. This research aims to determine how platypus populations are...
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...
Wildlife Queensland’s Upper Dawson Branch and the PlatypusWatch Network are finalising plans to undertake an important platypus project in the Upper Dawson River during May 2021. The ‘PlatypusWatch and eDNA in the Dawson River’ project, proudly supported by the...
Platypus habitat in Australia has shrunk by 22 per cent in 30 years and the animal should now be listed as a nationally threatened species, according to new research led by the University of New South Wales. The scientists compiled all available data and records of...
Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch Network has been granted $26,930 from the state government to survey and document the population distribution of platypuses within the upper Dawson River and tributaries around the Taroom region. The ‘PlatypusWatch and eDNA in the...
2020 marks Wildlife Queensland’s fifth year of platypus environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys[efn_note]eDNA is nuclear or mitochondrial DNA that is released from an organism into the environment. As part of their everyday activity, aquatic animals shed DNA from their...
updated: 27 September 2020 Switch screen time for green time over the school holidays (and beyond) and plan how to connect kids to nature. Citizen science projects Keep the kids occupied while helping scientists! Here is a list of citizen science projects that you and...
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...
9 August 2019 On-going monitoring of platypus populations using multiple survey methods will provide information vital to the conservation of this iconic species. Recent research suggests that declines in Australia’s platypus population have been underestimated...
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