A man has died in hospital after being bitten multiple times by a snake in north Queensland. Queensland ambulance service paramedics were called to a Deeragun property after 3pm on Tuesday. The man was in a critical condition and had sustained “multiple” snake bites at a separate address. He was taken to Townsville hospital but […]
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Queensland’s wet tropics see 25% rise in threatened species in three years as climate change bites
The number of listed threatened species in Australia’s world heritage northern rainforests has increased by 25% since 2020, as ecologists say they are now clearly observing the long-predicted impacts of global heating. The management and conservation authority for the Unesco-listed Queensland wet tropics this week handed its latest environmental report to the state government, containing […]
Tourists’ infuriatingly stupid act is caught on camera: ‘Someone will die’
Furious Aussies in crocodile country have called out the ‘stupidity’ of tourists who risk their lives trying to snap a photo of the deadly creatures. A photo shared online on Sunday shows a group of three young girls standing just metres from a massive croc in Babinda, 50km south of Cairns. The four-metre long crocodile, […]
Relaxing And Thrilling At The Same Time? Spot A Deadly Prehistoric Flightless Bird On This Beach
What should you do when you encounter a deadly animal? Do you drop on the ground and play dead? Run away as far as you can? Or do you just stay still and hope that they go away on their own? It’s easy to imagine what to do if you’re safe behind a phone screen, […]
Fears for platypus populations after flooding in Queensland and NSW
There are fears that platypus populations might have been wiped out by recent floods in greater Brisbane, sparking new calls for the species to be nationally recognised as threatened. While the platypus is endangered in South Australia and was listed as vulnerable in Victoria last year, the iconic monotreme is not officially considered threatened in […]
Queensland proposal to remove more large crocodiles could raise risk of attacks, experts warn
Critics of a proposal to remove more large crocodiles from Queensland’s populated far north coast say the move will result in a “silent cull” and could actually put more people at risk of attack. The Queensland government said crocodile numbers had been slowly rising and it was conducting modelling to see what impact taking more […]
Queensland koala funding diverted to rollercoaster could be much better spent, experts say
The Queensland government’s decision to quietly divert $2.7m from what it had previously promised would be a state-of-the-art koala research facility to build a rollercoaster instead was a public relations disaster. But the Queensland Conservation Council director, Dave Copeman, is not mourning the loss of the jettisoned Future Lab wildlife research centre at Dreamworld, nor […]
In order to build a new mine in Queensland, 1,000 hectares of koala habitat would need to be removed
In order to build a new mine in Queensland, Australia, 1,023.6 hectares of koala habitat would need to be removed. More than 70 hectares of the greater gliders’ habitat will also be lost as a result of the project; earlier this month, two of these species were placed on the endangered species list. Greater gliders […]