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)...
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...
Wildlife Queensland presents: Threatened Glider Recovery
Register for the Zoom webinar here In this FREE 1-hr Wildlife Queensland webinar, Queensland Glider Network Projects Manager Matt Cecil hosts presenters Paul Revie (Wildlife Queensland), Rachel Lyons (Noosa & District Landcare Group), and Liz Gould (Healthy Land...
Queensland Glider Network shines with greater glider events in bushfire-affected regions
4 May 2022 Wildlife Queensland’s Queensland Glider Network (QGN) is rolling out a series of free half-day workshops to encourage landholders to help conserve threatened greater gliders and yellow-bellied gliders … and they’re so popular they’re attracting...
Threatened Species Recovery Plans – not for the faint-hearted
3 May 2022 Author: Daryl Dickson It was a strange but welcome feeling the day Wildlife Queensland’s Cassowary Coast–Hinchinbrook Branch received final notification that the new National Mahogany Glider Recovery Plan had finally been legislated by the Federal...
Survey results for gliders on the Scenic Rim
16 March 2022 Before the latest ‘big wet’ arrived, our glider guru, Paul Revie, Project Officer for the Queensland Glider Network, put his gaiters on and went out searching for greater gliders in the Scenic Rim. Happily, Paul did find a greater glider – of course, the...