Australian Wildlife Society and Wildlife Queensland collaborate to fund new greater glider project
26 February 2024 Wildlife Queensland is thrilled to join forces with the Australian Wildlife Society (AWS) to help protect greater gliders. The organisation kindly contributed $10,000 towards our new greater glider project, bringing us closer to our fundraising goal...
Wildlife Queensland’s glider projects: Exciting updates and plans!
© Sam Horton; Josh Bowell Images left to right: Gizmo the greater glider, 2020 © Sam Horton; A Gizmo relative/lookalike, 2023 © Josh Bowell. 30 January 2024 It’s been a busy few months of glider surveys and sightings for our Queensland Glider Network (QGN)...
Wildlife Queensland projects update: From elusive quolls to butterfly corridors
22 December 2023 Wildlife Queensland project officer Hannah Thomas has been involved in several projects in South East Queensland these past few months. She has been busy gathering spotted-tailed quoll data, planting platypus habitat, creating butterfly corridors, and...
Taking the green out of green energy? Balancing wind power growth with wildlife conservation in Queensland
22 December 2023 Wind power is an integral part of the energy mix for the global transition to a cleaner, more sustainable future. However, it could seriously affect our ecological systems and threatened species if inappropriately located and insensitively...
Help save Gizmo and her greater glider family
10 November 2023 Wildlife Queensland is launching its Christmas appeal this week to raise funding for a new Greater Glider (Petauroides Volans) project. This initiative will collect crucial data on greater gliders’ habitat preferences and movement patterns,...
Wildlife Queensland creates artificial tree hollows for endangered gliders
© Josh Bowell 26 October 2023 With World Wildlife Conservation Day approaching on 4 December, it’s time to be aware, reflect, and act on issues threatening the planet’s wildlife biodiversity balance. Amid ongoing threats of urban expansion, bushfires, and...
Bushfires pushing Australia’s arboreal wildlife, including gliders, to the brink
25 August 2023 During the last few weeks, we have all heard and read articles warning of the impending bushfire season during our hot summer months. The landscapes we adore and the wildlife we cherish become exposed and vulnerable, and communities can be completely...
SEQ glider surveys yield encouraging wildlife sightings
© Josh Bowell Image: Josh Bowell / Yellow-bellied glider. 1 October 2022 It’s been an exciting and busy week for Wildlife Queensland’s Queensland Glider Network projects team, with surveys in Logan and Moogerah, South East Queensland showing...
Threatened Glider Recovery Webinar
Thank you to everyone for tuning in to our Threatened Glider Recovery Webinar. We hope you enjoyed the event. Below you’ll find: a link to the full webinar recording PowerPoint presentations to download additional Q&As not recorded in the webinar information about...
Download our comprehensive new guide to revegetating for gliders today!
6 May 2022 Exciting news … Queensland Glider Network (QGN) has launched a brand-new revegetation guide! Designed to assist landholders in protecting and recreating habitat for Australia’s largest gliding mammals — the southern and central greater glider (Petauroides...