Welcome to my.Wildlife eBulletin 20. This issue is packed full of information: how to write a letter to the papers; how to make a submission on the Traveston Crossing Dam EIS; and how to give a Christmas gift by buying a WAM subscription. Find out about rock wallabies in Queensland and quolls in North Beaudesert – and how to support Wildlife Queensland into the future.

Enjoy your November 2007 issue of my.Wildlife.

Traveston EISTraveston EIS deadline

Members of the public were urged to sign an emergency petition to slow the controversial public consultation process of the Traveston Crossing Dam by delaying the EIS submission deadline to 31 December 2007. The current deadline is 3 December 2007 so there is still time to make submissions to the Coordinator-General on the contents of the EIS.

How to make a submission.

Quolls in North Beaudesert

It took 1 public meeting, 150 local residents, 500 trap nights plus road kills, scats and hair analysis to confirm the existence of spotted-tailed quolls in the north Beaudesert Shire where they were formerly considered extinct.

Find out how they did it in the final report to Beaudesert Shire, now available on Quoll Seekers Network, recently redesigned to take account of the growing amount of quoll material on our website.

Brush-tailed rock wallabies

The brush-tailed rock wallaby, once found along the Great Dividing Range for 2500 km from the Grampians in western Victoria to Nanango in south-east Queensland, is reduced to hundreds of individuals or fewer in every state but Queensland– where its populations are increasingly isolated.

Find out more about the brush-tailed rock wallaby and its status.

North Australia’s nature

Northern Australia is one of our largest natural areas – alongside the Amazon rainforests and the wilderness of Antarctica. Development of the north is on the federal agenda again, so a report on the ecological values, processes and implications of land use development in our tropical savannas is timely.

The Nature of Australia:  natural values, ecological processes and future prospects (2007) by Woinarski, Mackey, Nix and Traill is available free of charge from ANU EPRESS.

Professor Henry Nix, co-author of the report was guest speaker at Wildlife Queensland’s 2007 Southern Branches Get-Together, more details in Wildlife Queensland’s new Summer 2007 Newsletter.

WAM's gift to you

GIVE a new gift subscription to Wildlife Australia magazine, and we will send a free copy of the Steve Parish book Wild: the wonders of Australian wildlife to someone special: You.

Find out how to buy a WAM gift subscription online today.

Christmas Appeal 2007

This Christmas, give a voice to Queensland’s wildlife by giving to Wildlife Queensland. We’ve been protecting and promoting wildlife for almost 50 years. Help us continue our work into the future. Unsuitable development, climate change, and insufficient management have resulted in Queensland now being home to 840 rare species; 300 vulnerable species; and more than 130 endangered species.

So, please give wildlife a generous online tax-deductible donation to Wildlife Queensland this Christmas. We can’t do it without you.

Save trees, read online

The new Wildlife Queensland Summer 2007 newsletter (~800kbB) is out now. Find out how to write a letter to your newspaper, read about the wonder of boggomosses and the threat of feral deer. If you prefer to read a colour copy online, see below for details on how to reduce our paper use.

For your diary

Batty Boat Cruises

Wildlife Queensland is taking bookings for the Batty Boat Cruise on 9 December. Cruise down the Brisbane River to watch the spectacular sunset flyout of flying foxes from Indooroopilly Island. All profits go to flying fox research and welfare.

Wildlife Land Fund

Wildlife Land Fund is holding an information night for anyone interested in the work of the fund at 6pm Wednesday 28 November at the Greek Club, Edmonston Street, South Brisbane.

Wildlife Festival events

The Logan and Albert Conservation Association is holding the first of a year-long series of wildlife events. ‘Wildlife of the Scenic Rim’ is on Saturday 8 December 2007, 10.30am–5.00pm.

You can find out more about these events in our diary.

Wildlife Queensland Newsletter

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