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...
Dawson Valley Butterfly Weekend a flying success!
17 October 2022 Authors: Melanie Simmons and Viola Temple-Watts More than 30 enthusiastic participants helped Upper Dawson branch celebrate Wildlife Queensland’s 60th anniversary and learnt about Central Queensland’s many butterfly species at the Dawson Valley...
New Book Celebrates the Life of a Committed Conservationist
26 October 2021 Adam Clark (1933–2020) was a grazier, farmer and passionate conservationist with Wildlife Queensland’s Upper Dawson Branch. Shocked by the widespread clearing of land for grazing, he acted to protect the remnants of native vegetation,...
Environmental DNA Makes a Splash in the Upper Dawson
19 October 2021 Author: Tamielle Brunt Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch program can now proudly reveal the much-awaited results of eDNA sampling at sites along the Dawson River and tributaries earlier this year. In June 2021, 19 sites were sampled along a ~60...
Citizen scientists track platypuses in Queensland’s Upper Dawson region
25 July 2021 Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch Network and Upper Dawson Branch ran two June workshops in the Banana Shire to teach locals about the iconic platypus and how to monitor its numbers using eDNA technology. The Maudsley family, from Mitchell,...A Win for Dawson and Fitzroy River Wildlife
20 July 2021 Setting a precedent for coal seam gas wastewater controls Aquatic wildlife of the Upper Dawson region can ‘breathe easier’ with news that the Federal Government has ruled Santos cannot release unlimited amounts of coal seam gas wastewater into...
Wildlife Queensland Launches PlatypusWatch in the Upper Dawson Workshops
Wildlife Queensland’s PlatypusWatch Network and Upper Dawson Branch will run two workshops in the Taroom region on 26 June 2021 for community members who would like to learn about platypuses and how they can get involved in an exciting citizen science project to...
Wildlife Queensland Upper Dawson February gathering
1 March 2021 Some of the WPSQ Upper Dawson gathering around the spring on Duke’s Plain taken while others were exploring around the creek. Author: Melanie Simmons, Wildlife Queensland Upper Dawson Branch Our Wildlife Queensland Upper Dawson Branch gathering on Duke’s...
Call for citizen scientists: PlatypusWatch in the Dawson River
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...
Wildlife Queensland Scores Citizen Science Grant to Conserve Queensland’s Elusive Platypus
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...