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...
Greater Glider Workshop
Join us for an exciting and informative Greater Glider Workshop! Discover the fascinating world of these enchanting marsupials and learn about their unique behaviours and habitat, threats and local conservation actions. This in-person event offers a fantastic...
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,...
Using Remote Sensing to Inform Greater Glider Habitat Mapping
Please join us for a presentation by Jess Evans, who has recently completed her Honours degree with research focusing on using remote sensing to map greater glider habitat in the Fraser Coast region. Jess’s research was conducted with the assistance of a $5,000...
Greater glider habitat research briefing
Queensland Conservation Council invites you to an online briefing by Griffith University’s Dr Patrick Norman, lead researcher in a project that mapped the likely core habitat for the endangered southern and central greater glider (Petauroides volans) across...
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...
NaturallyGC Greater Glider Survey Walk
NB. You must have attended a previous induction to receive a code to register for this night walk/survey. Greater gliders are one of the Gold Coast’s most charismatic animals, yet they are still relatively unknown to the wider community. The Gold Coast is home...