A novel and much-needed koala conservation project has kicked off in Queensland, squarely aimed at helping address the worrying substantial decline in koala populations faced across many parts of eastern Australia.

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A group of farmers in South East Queensland has been looking at a method of controlling soil erosion and the associated run-off of nutrients and pesticides with a product that has proved successful in the construction industry.

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The Great Barrier Reef’s conservation status was recently downgraded from “significant concern” to “critical” in a concerning recent world heritage outlook report released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the official advisory body on nature to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.

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We are excited to announce that Healthy Land & Water is part of a collective commitment made by all Natural Resource Management (NRM) groups across Queensland to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander engagement and Aboriginal Cultural Heritage through the formalisation of the “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Participation Principles of Practice”.

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Cane toads are toxic at all stages of life and cause environmental damage. They poison and kill anything that consumes them, eat small reptiles, insects, and other amphibians, and displace and out-compete native species for food and resources.

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The University of Sunshine Coast Marine Science team led by Dr Ben Gilby has presented its final analysis of three years of fish monitoring on and around the Pumicestone Shellfish Habitat Restoration site near Bribie Island, and the results are showing that the restoration effort not only increases the attraction of fish but contributes significantly to an increase in productivity of the fishery.

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