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Sharing our passion for conservation through stories from the field
Southern Brigalow Butterflies
The Land Restoration Fund has been offering landholders financial incentives to assess how they can participate in carbon farming and provide environmental, social and economic co-benefits to Queensland. Supported by this initiative, a group of landholders from the...
A Powerful Partnership with Rainforest Rescue
A Powerful New Partnership – Queensland Trust for Nature (QTFN) have joined together with Rainforest Rescue (RR) to create a Powerful New Partnership which aims at restoring the Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland. Queensland Trust for Nature and Rainforest...
Plastic Free July! Will you join us?
Last year, the QTFN team did a competition of who can use the least amount of plastic through out the month of June, 2019. We had a tally on the wall and every bit of plastic we used we'd add a strike. The time has come again to go plastic free for the month of July....
2020 Photos: Wildlife in your backyard
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. — FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF" During COVID-19, Queensland Trust for Nature hosted an activity to get people to stop and look around, and appreciate the world outside of their...
Our trip to Central Queensland
In February, our QTFN ecologists, Felicity Shapland, Renee Rossini and Tanya Pritchard, headed out to Central Queensland for two weeks to conduct ecological surveys on landholders properties. The surveys were part of the Land Restoration Fund pilot projects and were...
Ten replacement practices for a healthy planet.
Two years ago, I made a commitment to better protect my skin from the sun. At the time, the idea of sun baking with no sun cream seemed perfectly reasonable. Today the thought of it horrifies me. In 2018, a ban on single-use plastic shopping bags was introduced in...
10 threatened species Queensland Trust for Nature is protecting
Unfortunately, around the world and within Australia, growing demand for housing, agricultural, industrial and coastal development is reducing habitat for wildlife. Among mammals alone, Australia is losing at least one or two species per decade and indications are...
Eco-volunteering on the Great Barrier Reef: Avoid Island
Nothing could have prepared me for the uncanny sense of serenity I felt rambling through the bush searching for weeds on Avoid Island. Sounds of lapping waves and birdsong filled the air and a gentle southerly blew a salty breeze through the trees. A city-slicker...
Search for the elusive and endangered mahogany glider
It’s a hot sticky summer evening in Wongaling Beach, 2 hours south of Cairns in the tropics of Far North Queensland. The whine of mosquitoes through the flyscreen is a constant reminder of our tropical location and the itchy and scratchy experience that awaits as soon...
It’s all about the little things at QTFN’s first BugCatch at Aroona
Queensland really does have some amazingly diverse native insects and invertebrates that deserve as much attention as our other famous fauna! One example is the Richmond Birdwing butterfly. Found nowhere else but south-east Queensland, the Richmond Birdwing is very...