Prowling the forests of southern Queensland after dark, the spottedtailed quoll, Dasyurus maculatus, is the largest marsupial carnivore on the Australian mainland. Female quolls average around two kilograms in weight, while males can reach five kilograms and have a total body and tail length approaching 1.5 metres. Despite their relatively small size, quolls are ferocious […]
Day trips to Springbrook National Park have always been something my family and I have enjoyed, and it is often the first place we think of outside our more local walks up Mt Gravatt or Toohey Forest. There are six of us in total (not counting our feisty, but loveable, pet bird) and we will […]
Tracy Wattz is Ranger in Charge, Northern Mulga, in the south west region of QPWS. Being a part of the natural world was important to Tracy from a very young age. Loving endless time in the Gippsland region, she spent hours with her Uncle, a naturalist, walking the upper reaches of rivers, exploring forests – […]
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Cat Shaw is a Ranger in Technical Services in the Visitor Management team for the Coastal and Islands region, based in Manly. With a background in professional writing, in her early 30s, she decided she was tired of reading about other people’s adventures and contributions to society. Cat packed up her life, and moved to […]
I find it so interesting to think back on my life and look at the defining moments, forks in the road and path-setting decisions I made that have led me to where I am now. As a 30-year-old, I find myself spending more time reflecting on influential moments than I did when I was younger […]
There’s a bird out there that has brought people together for years. It’s called the Glossy Black-cockatoo and it’s the feature of a brand new episode in the Back from the Brink docu-series being run this year by Natura Pacific and the Glossy Black Conservancy. The Glossy Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) is the smallest of Australia’s […]
NPAQ gratefully received a generous bequest from Ruth Frances Crosson this month. Ruth peacefully passed away in December 2019 after losing her fight with cancer at age 82. Ruth was always accompanied by her two Pomeranian dogs and was well know as never being afraid to be herself. She was instrumental in establishing the Tondoon […]
Nestled near the heart of the Gold Coast is one of Queensland’s newer national parks. Covering over 1600 hectares of Kombumerri country, Nerang (Ngarang-Wal) National Park is a sizeable wildlife refuge in a sea of rapid development. Gazetted between 2007 and 2009, the park protects a mosaic of eucalypt forest and woodland along with a […]
This morning I woke to the sound of five kookaburras chuckling uproariously at the slow ascent of sunrise from one of their many precarious perches at the top of a large, old growth Eucalyptus youmannii (Youman’s Stringybark). Every morning it’s the same. About 15 minutes after the first announcement they begin all over again, followed […]
