Toowoomba Wilderness Society

01/11/2026

Have you downloaded the free frog ID app yet?

31/10/2026

Community engagement across our region to encourage awareness of need to protect koalas and preserve koala habitat

28/10/2026

Fancy seeing our sticker on a letter box in the middle of Venice.
Thanks for raising global awareness to the unfolding extinction crisis whoever has done the guerilla sticker-ing. We see you 😉😋💚🐨

28/10/2026

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The gas industry is planning its next move. It wants to build a 1,500km pipeline across the Channel Country that would unlock fracking in the NT’s Beetaloo Basin. ⚠️

The Channel Country is one of the last places on Earth where desert rivers flow free. We’re launching a new campaign to protect the Northern Territory’s ancient springs and the Channel Country’s rivers and floodplains.

The best time to stop an oil or gas project is before it starts. It’s how we together protected the Channel Country’s rivers from new oil and gas expansion in 2024. It’s how we stopped the gas hub at James Price Point and deep sea drilling in the Great Australian Bight.

Backed by our supporters, we’re building pressure on Environment Minister Murray Watt to require a full environmental impact assessment before any work on the pipeline begins. We’re having conversations with Queenslanders and taking our demands to the halls of both federal and state parliament.

Not one metre of this pipeline has been built. United, we can keep it that way. And if we stop the pipeline, then fracking in the Beetaloo Basin becomes untenable.

That’s just the beginning. To take on the gas industry, we need decision-makers to know they can’t ignore what’s at stake.

👉 Add your name to our petition to Murray Watt: www.wilderness.org.au/stop-beetaloo-pipeline

25/10/2026

24/10/2026

Wildlife Carers!

17/10/2026

“One of the greatest failures of climate policy in history.”

That’s how Wilderness Society CEO Kirsty Howey describes governments’ broken promise on fracking in the Northern Territory.

The gas industry is pushing into the places we love, with the ancient springs of the Northern Territory next in line.

Gas companies have already started fracking for gas in the Beetaloo basin 500km south-east of Garramilla / Darwin. The plan is for up to 6,000 fracking wells drilled through ancient aquifers, unleashing up to 1.2 billion tonnes of climate pollution. This would make Beetaloo one of the most polluting projects in the entire country.

This week, Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King told the National Press Club that all emissions from the Beetaloo would be offset. She’s now facing calls to correct the record.

In 2018, the government-commissioned Pepper inquiry made 135 recommendations to be undertaken if fracking was to proceed in the Northern Territory. One of those recommendations was that governments should aim to ensure fracking in the NT didn’t increase Australia’s total emissions. But the NT government dropped the requirement to offset Beetaloo emissions after the gas industry objected.

Independent research by Tim Baxter of Naru Research has shown that about 95% of emissions expected from four Beetaloo gas projects this decade won’t have to be offset. The climate impacts of this project would be devastating.

Stopping new gas has never mattered more for the generations to come. Fracking in the Beetaloo must be stopped to protect wild places, water, wildlife, communities and the climate.

17/10/2026

💥Just when you think things couldn’t get worse for our wildlife!
🐨While our endangered koalas are our primary focus, we love all creatures - great, small, scaley, prickly, bitey and scratchy.
🆘But our wildlife and the volunteers who help them need our help even more than ever!

🚫Such is the demand, RSPCA Wildlife Hospital have temporarily closed their doors to intakes from 5pm to 8am, except for koalas.
🌙While that’s great for our koalas, it’s devastating for other endangered and native nocturnal wildlife and those who are trying to help them.
🦉Greater gliders, grey‑headed flying foxes, echidnas, wallabies and many more all need help too.
🏥We know that the hospital staff and volunteers do an amazing job under incredible pressure, so no shade on them.
😔But if they don’t have the funding or resources to help our wildlife on the worst - and often last - day of their lives, a solution is required in partnership with DETSI and the state and federal government.

🚨Wildlife emergencies don’t stop at 5pm, and neither does the suffering of wildlife or the trauma of rescuers, carers, and community members who witness it. If anything, it increases after dark when wildlife is hard to see.
🐾Emergency vets are always happy to help (for free) but they also aren’t funded, and many won't be resourced to admit additional wildlife.
🏞️And of course the situation isn't any better in many regional areas where there isn't a wildlife hospital at all!

🪵While poor planning and development continues to put our wildlife under pressure, the least we can do when they're experiencing pain and suffering from that is to offer them care, compassion, respect and dignity.

📢Please email our representatives and ask that they resolve this awful situation and prevent it from occurring next year/again:
📧[email protected]
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📧cc your own state and federal representatives

👉It’s the very least that our native wildlife, hospital staff, emergency vets and community volunteers deserve.

16/10/2026

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The Lockyer Toowoomba Birds on Farms Project is looking for more volunteers to assist with seasonal bird surveys. The project has been running for a year and half now and needs more volunteers to service the large number of properties waiting to come on board. Volunteers will need to be available at the start of each season for early morning surveys and would survey plots on a small number of properties each season. Volunteers will need to have reasonable bird identification skills, no mobility issues and will need to be able to use the Birdata app. Volunteers will preferably have mid-week availability. Training will be provided. If interested, please *email* Scot McPhie [email protected]

📷 Scot McPhie

10/10/2026

Finally, there is some healthy new growth emerging at the Withcott fodder forest. It's ready for some rain with the creek bed bone dry and even the weeds are struggling. Spot the visitor at Erchana's grove.