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...
Call for citizen scientists: PlatypusWatch in the Dawson River

Call for citizen scientists: PlatypusWatch in the Dawson River

25 Feb 2021

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...
Priority protection needed for dwindling platypus populations

Priority protection needed for dwindling platypus populations

27 Nov 2020

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 Launches Fifth year of Platypus eDNA Surveys

Wildlife Queensland Launches Fifth year of Platypus eDNA Surveys

14 May 2020

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...
Guide to nature & wildlife activities for kids

Guide to nature & wildlife activities for kids

30 Mar 2020

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...
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 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...

Is Brisbane’s platypus population disappearing?

20 Aug 2019

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...

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

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...

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