Welcome to edition five of Wildlife Queensland's my.Wildlife eBulletin, your information hotline to what is happening in wildlife conservation around Queensland.

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Protecting our Bushland Campaign

'Sign the ePetition/ send the postcard'. That's the call to action from the newest stage of Wildlife Queensland's Protecting our Bushland Campaign. Organise signatures on the electronic or paper petition and lobby your local member and ministers as part of a postcard campaign. We want WPSQ supporters to pressure the Queensland Government to strengthen the Vegetation Management Act 1999 that is supposed to protect bushland habitat.

Signed the ePetition? Now see the movie

The controversial new documentary on climate change 'An Inconvenient Truth' is being screened as part of the Brisbane International Film Festival. An entertaining presentation of irrefutable evidence that rising carbon dioxide emissions are changing our climate, the film stars former Vice-President of the USA and environment activist, Al Gore.

Wildlife Queensland, in association with BIFF, is inviting two eBulletin subscribers to the Queensland premiere on Friday 4 August. Visit the Queensland Government ePetition site, answer a simple question before 28 July and a random winner will receive two complimentary tickets to 'An Inconvenient Truth' at 4.30 pm 4 August at The Palace Centro in New Farm, Brisbane.

Winter WAM out now

What's your place in the food chain? Find out when you read the winter issue of Wildlife Australia Magazine - out now.

When are you going to subscribe to Australia's best wildlife magazine? Great writing, quality photography, topical and always thought-provoking. Four issues of WAM a year will keep you in touch with Australia's wildlife and support the work of Wildlife Queensland.

Japan's whalers now a legal target

The hunter will become the hunted thanks to a decision by the Australian Full Federal Court to allow the Humane Society International to serve legal proceedings on Japanese whaling company Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd.

HSI alleges the company has contravened the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 by killing Minke whales in the whale sanctuary adjacent to the Australian Antarctic Territory.

Read about the implications of the court decision for Queensland wildlife in the EDO Queensland alert .

Wildlife Queensland's history is news

Wildlife Queensland members will receive a bonus publication in the latest newsletter. The first title in our history monograph series - Catalyst for Action: Formation of a conservation society - is being distributed free as a bonus with the winter WPSQ newsletter.

Paper versions of future monographs will be advertised as they are produced. Read the online newsletter Wildlife Queensland.

WPSQ Whitsunday loses appeal

The Federal Court has dismissed the case brought against the Federal Government by WPSQ Whitsunday Branch (with assistance from EDO and EDO NQ).

However, a referral for an extension of the coal mine at Isaac Plains has been withdrawn because the mine owner's documentation sent to the Environment Department failed to address the likely future greenhouse gas emissions.

Read more details.

Want to work for Wildlife Queensland?

Wildlife Queensland is advertising an exciting career opportunity based in our Brisbane head office. We are currently looking for an Education and Development Officer.

Find out more.

For your diary

Quoll Survey Project Launch

Come and meet a live quoll when WPSQ's wildlife projects officer launches the survey of spotted-tail quoll numbers in the north Beaudesert area on Sunday 30 July at Greenbank Community Hall, Teviot Rd. See the Green Diary for details.

Southern Branches Get-Together

WPSQ's Logan Branch is hosting the Southern Branches Get-Together on 8-10 September 2006. See the Green Diary for details.

Wildlife Queensland Newsletter

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