Jan 24, 2026 | News |
Review by Ronda Green,PhD, Chair of Wildlife Tourism Australia. January 2026 There has been much written about pros and cons of wildlife tourism and ecotourism over the past couple of decades. it is true that even well-intentioned tourism has caused damage to nature,...
Nov 24, 2025 | News |
Here is the pdf of our webinar on koalas in southeast Queensland. For an explanation of the series pease see https://www.wildlifetourism.org.au/sharing-our-local-wildlife-with-olympic-guests/ Wildlife-SEQ-4-Koala
Nov 24, 2025 | News |
Here is the pdf of our webinar on gliders and possums of Southeast Queensland. See https://www.wildlifetourism.org.au/sharing-our-local-wildlife-with-olympic-guests/ for details of the series. Wildlife-SEQ-5-possums-glidersDownload
Oct 6, 2025 | News |
How Tourism Businesses Can Make a Genuine Impact: A Case from Southern Tasmania, Australia Dr Elleke Leurs October 2025 This is a real example of how a commercial tourism business can move beyond sustainability buzzwords and take meaningful action. In Southern...
Oct 3, 2025 | News |
Ronda Green (chair WTA) So sad to hear of the passing of Dr Jane Goodall. She has been an inspiration to so many of us. Louis Leakey saw her potential as a highly-motivated young woman enthralled by animals and by the prospect of conducting research in the jungles of...
Sep 19, 2025 | News |
From Dr David Croft, our guests speaker for the day See also https://www.wildlifetourism.org.au/kangaroos-and-kin-se-qld-webinar-series-3-part-1/ Macropod-webinar-David-CroftDownload
Sep 19, 2025 | News |
Clarification from queries after the webinar: the three largest species in the family were called kangaroos, with most of the others called wallabies. Tree kangaroos (which don’t occur in se Queensland) are considerably smaller,. but the wallaroos are large, and...
Sep 10, 2025 | News |
Reproduced with permission from The Conversation. Editor’s note: as the author says, zoos do get involved in some important conservation work (we’ll be talking about this as well as wild-based tourism in our 2026 conference) but they shouldn’t...
Aug 18, 2025 | News |
Here is the first of our webinar series on Wildlife of Southeast Queensland Please visit https://www.wildlifetourism.org.au/sharing-our-local-wildlife-with-olympic-guests/ for an explanation of this series of webinars....
Aug 18, 2025 | News |
Echidnas in Southeast Queensland Please see: Platypus and Echidna: Webinar series 2 Part 1 https://www.wildlifetourism.org.au/platypus-and-echidna-no-2-in-webinar-series-wildlife-seq/ Platypus and Echidna: Webinar series 2 Part 2...
