We love a winner at Wildlife Queensland. In this month's my.Wildlife ebulletin you can help the Wenlock River win Wild River status; apply for funding for a special poultry pen; and read about the chance of a new future direction for Australia's biodiversity protection. Join Wildlife Queensland right here and you'll receive a free copy of our latest issue of Wildlife Australia Magazine.

Plus our new my.Wildlife competition gives younger supporters a chance to win one of 3 copies of a great new book.

The future of Australia's biodiversity

The federal government realises the current fragmented approach to managing Australia's biodiversity is not working and it's time for a new strategy.

A draft federal strategy plan has been created that recognises the importance of Australia's biodiversity (or biological diversity) and the urgent need to reverse its decline.

You can find out more and make a submission

Clearing moratorium welcomed

Wildlife Queensland welcomes the 3-month moratorium on clearing endangered regrowth vegetation announced by the Queensland Government on 7 April 2009.

Find out what Wildlife Queensland is doing about protecting endangered regrowth.

Wenlock River = Wild River?

The Queensland Government is due to decide whether the Wenlock River in Cape York Peninsula should be declared a Wild River. The Wenlock River system is one of the original 19 rivers slated for declaration by the Queensland Government in 2004.

Wildlife Queensland wants the Wenlock River to be protected.

You can help the Wenlock River become a Wild River.

Win with a poultry pen

When quolls raid poultry pens, the retaliation from poultry owners can threaten the quolls' survival. If you live in an area that is known quoll habitat, you could receive up to $750 from Wildlife Queensland to build a quoll-proof poultry pen (conditions apply).

Keep your chooks safe in a quoll-proof pen and quolls are safer too. It's a win-win situation. Find out more about funding for your quoll-proof poultry pen.

Mudlarks wanted

MangroveWatch - Wildlife Queensland's new monitoring project for mangrove health - needs more volunteers for surveys at Wynnum, Fisherman Islands and Lota for May-June 2009. If you like mud and would be able to spend 3-4 weekends a year contributing to the health of Queensland's coastline and marine environments, we want to hear from you.

Branch news

Several Wildlife Queensland regional branches produce newsletters that keep you in the loop about local wildlife and conservation issues. Many of those newsletters are available through the branch pages of our website.

Read the newsletters from Kedron Brook, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Hinterland, Fraser Coast, Caboolture Branches.

Book competition

Are you under 14 years old? Interested in wildlife? Then enter our new my.Wildlife book competition! We're giving away 3 copies of The Big Picture Book of the Environment by John Lang and published by Allen & Unwin. The latest review of the book in Wildlife Australia Magazine describes it as, 'a fascinating read with lots of facts; I would recommend it to anyone interested in the world around them.'

To go in the draw to win a copy of The Big Picture Book of the Environment, all you have to do is correctly answer three questions (Hint: the answers to the questions can be found on our website) and be under 14 on 10 May 2009. The winners will be picked at random from the correct entries on 11 May and notified by email.

Go on - you've got to be in it to win it!

For your diary

Join in RabbitScan, the national community pest survey, by the Rabbit Management Advisory Group. All over Australia in May 2009.

Breaking the barriers, 6-8 May, Environment Institute of Australia's symposium on wildlife mitigation measures

Cockatoo Birding Day, 9 May, Contribute to finding out more about the glossy black cockatoo with Griffith University

Sustainable Living Expo, 23 May, Caboolture Environmental Education Centre's annual event helps everyone who likes living lightly on the Earth

Birds Australia Conservation Forum, 30 May, Member of Stock Routes Coalition (WPSQ members) get an earlybird registration price before 30 April 2009.

Quoll Discovery Day, Gympie, 31 May, register now for the final quoll event in Protecting Quolls in Queensland Landscapes.

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

Wildlife Queensland Newsletter

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