Digging mammals play a key role in Queensland’s biodiversity

Digging mammals play a key role in Queensland’s biodiversity

19 May 2023 As we approach the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2023, with the theme “Agreement to Action: Build Back Diversity”, it is important to recognise the significance of digging mammals in preserving Queensland’s rich biodiversity....
Fraser Coast Backyard Bioblitz — Summer 2023

Fraser Coast Backyard Bioblitz — Summer 2023

Discover the wonderful diversity of native plants and animals in the Fraser Coast and Wide Bay region during the Summer Backyard Bioblitz on the weekend of 14-15 January 2023. This is part of a series of seasonal Backyard Bioblitzes coordinated by the Wildlife...
Connecting People, Connecting Nature conference

Connecting People, Connecting Nature conference

Book tickets on Eventbrite here Join leading local and international experts at the Connecting People, Connecting Nature conference to explore the science and practice of connectivity conservation, and how it can help meet our planetary challenges. Hosted by the Great...
Bird Bivouac – Mount Mellum

Bird Bivouac – Mount Mellum

Book tickets on Eventbrite here Join Queensland Trust for Nature (QTFN) for their next Citizens For Refuge Ecology (C4RE) Camp on 15-16th October to record the diversity of birds at Mount Mellum Private Nature Refuge. Come roll out your swag under a canopy of stars...
Putting the heat on fire ants in the suburbs

Putting the heat on fire ants in the suburbs

25 January 2022 The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), a native of Paraguay and Southern Brazil, is a highly invasive species that colonises quickly and stings en masse whenever a nest of up to 400,000 fiercely territorial ants is disturbed. The Federal...
Independent review of EPBC Act released 

Independent review of EPBC Act released 

On 30 October 2020, the Independent Reviewer of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999, Professor Graeme Samuel AC, provided the Minister for the Environment with his Final Report. The Report was tabled in Parliament on 28...
Spotlight on: UQ intern Taylor McGregor

Spotlight on: UQ intern Taylor McGregor

Since 2014, Wildlife Queensland has hosted university students from a range of educational institutions seeking placement opportunities in the environmental conservation industry. Students placed with Wildlife Queensland undertake projects in policy development,...
World Wildlife Day 2020

World Wildlife Day 2020

  3 March 2020   Today is World Wildlife Day! Proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 December 2013 and held on 3 March each year, World Wildlife Day is a global celebration of the beautiful and richly diverse forms of wild animals and plants...

What does the Coalition win mean for the environment and its wildlife?

4 June 2019   As Wildlife Queensland reported on 7 May 2019 (see: news story), recent reports show Australia’s biodiversity is at breaking point. Time is ticking for the newly re-elected Coalition Government to deliver on its environmental election promises. But...

Take 10 minutes to save our national parks

7 May 2019   On Monday, 6 May 2019 the findings of the United Nations report ‘Humans accelerating extinction of other species’ were reported in print media and aired across electronic media. “People are putting nature in more trouble now than at any other time in...

Action on Australia’s Faunal Extinction Crisis – We live in hope

27 February 2019   Wildlife Queensland has welcomed a new Senate inquiry into Australia’s faunal extinction crisis and called on the Commonwealth Government to step up and be more involved in ways to ensure the protection of Australia’s unique biodiversity....

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