Tag Archive for ‘wildlife’
Christmas is a time to help our wildlife
In recent months there has been a great increase in orphaned and injured animals being reported on the WILVOS hotline. It always makes me so aware of the value of this 24 hour a day, 365 days a year rescue number for distressed wildlife.
It is always a challenge to find enough people to man the [...]
Wildlife: a changing climate is not their only concern
I wish that we could blame the decline of our Australian native species on one major influence such as climate change, but unfortunately that is not the only problem facing our wildlife.
Human impact, in many forms, have been the direct culprit from the moment humans stepped onto this beautiful country. As the population has increased [...]
Dam opposition well and truly afloat
For a community that Government sources claim is starting to accept a dam, Mary Valley residents and others were showing no sign of it when they took too the river to visibly signpost the three mark in their fight too stop the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam.
Three years to the day since Peter Beattie’s shock announcement [...]
Ecology on show at World Environment Day Festival
Do bugs bug you? Do weeds drive you mad? Do you have a weed you want identified? Maybe you would like to know some of the uses for our local plants?
For all the answers, a series of Practical Ecology workshops at the free World Environment Day Festival on June 28th may be just the thing [...]
Is eco tourism saving the whales?
By Valerie Lewis
President of the Sunshine Coast Environment Council
All over the globe, people gather in their hundreds on boats, or are taken swimming with the sole purpose of watching one of their favourite cetaceans, whales. This activity has expanded to such an extent that it is now considered to be a major eco-tourism endeavour [...]
Bush Heritage helps endangered fish
Ancient artesian springs boasting arguably Australia’s most endangered fish species have been saved for future generations with the purchase of a Central Queensland property by conservation group Bush Heritage Australia.
Edgbaston’s unique artesian spring network, fed by pure million-year-old spring water from the Great Artesian Basin, has allowed for the survival of the world’s only remaining [...]
Saving Phrederick Phascogale
PHREDERICK, the brush-tailed phascogale, was a sad sight when Wilvos worker Sylvia Whiting first saw him.
Bird feeder dangers
A wildlife expert believes bird feeders are just another name for public toilets in our back yards, reports Donna Anthony…
Gifts for our wildlife
It’s that time of year again when we go into panic mode, thinking of what Christmas gifts to buy family or friends.
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