Multiregional wins for at-risk gliders
14 February 2022 Wildlife Queensland is proud to announce that the Queensland Glider Network (QGN) is a successful recipient of Federal Government funding to improve community knowledge of endangered greater gliders and vulnerable yellow-bellied gliders across...Gliding into 2022
17 December 2021 Stars above, spotlight beams, nocturnal shrieks, and the sudden swoop of something overhead in the darkness – boobook, powerful owl or … glider? This year’s results from Wildlife Queensland’s glider conservation teams make all the bushwhacking...
Recovering the Mahogany Glider: A Team Effort
17 September 2021 The National Mahogany Glider Recovery Team met in Tully last week, and despite the uncertainty and complexity of remote meetings, cooperation between members was high – all working constructively to improve the future for this endangered...New Study Suggests Australia has Failed Greater Gliders
26 August 2021 Authors: Darcy Watchorn, PhD Candidate, Deakin University and Kita Ashman, Threatened Species & Climate Adaptation Ecologist, Deakin University. This article was first published by The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Australia has...
Nest boxes are making a difference
27 July 2021 With the wintry ‘Ekka westerlies’ on their way, wildlife species are snuggling into the many nest boxes that Queensland Glider Network staff and volunteers have set up in parks and reserves throughout South East Queensland. Australia has the...
Greater Glider Events Draw Great(er) Response From Logan Community
166 people attended Wildlife Queensland’s Queensland Glider Network greater glider events between 29 May and 20 June. Greater glider spotted on the Noctural Animal Spotlighting event. Image © Perkelly Photography The free event series, which included three...
Yellow-Bellied Glider Monitoring Success in Logan
Yellow-bellied glider. Image © Sam Horton Wildlife Queensland’s Yellow-Bellied Glider Project team has had amazing recent success locating yellow-bellied glider colonies by using Audiomoth acoustic monitors to record vocalisations made by the species in the...
Queensland Glider Network Project Updates – December 2020
As a result, the greater glider and yellow-bellied glider have been included in the federal Threatened Species Scientific Committee’s priority assessment list, nominated for a status upgrade to Endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity...New project to put threatened SEQ gliders on the map
28 August 2020 Wildlife Queensland has launched a new Queensland Glider Network project aimed at understanding and documenting the distribution of yellow-bellied gliders in South East Queensland. The project will also document the distribution and occurrence of...
Glorious Gliders webinar
About the event Australia’s gliding possums are an amazing collection of species all renowned for being able to glide between trees with the aid of a membrane of skin linking the fore and hind legs. They range in size from the tiny feathertail glider, which can...