A University of Queensland animal welfare researcher tonight won the 2012 Australian Museum Voiceless Eureka Prize for Scientific Research that contributes to Animal Protection.
28 August 2012The responsibility for choosing which Australian native species survive – and which go extinct – may ultimately fall to ordinary Australians.
28 May 2012Australia may need to consider selling off some of its National Parks if it is to be able to afford to conserve its most important landscapes and species for future generations.
7 May 2012Many of the world's most rare and rich forests, the tropical montane cloud forests, could be all-but obliterated by 2080.
22 March 2012A newly published study shows Australians must work with international partners if they are to save all of Australia’s birds.
1 March 2012UQ/CSIRO researcher Dr Eve McDonald-Madden is one of three winners of L'Oreal Australia for Women in Science Fellowships for 2011 announced this evening.
23 August 2011University of Queensland Professor of ecology and mathematics Hugh Possingham will this week embark on a tour of Asia to share with international scientists and decision-makers some practical tools to solve global conservation conundrums.
2 August 2011Fifty two leading researchers from The University of Queensland were honoured on Sunday as leaders in their diverse fields of discovery at the inaugural Q-Index Awards.
17 May 2011New research on the extent of Australia’s biodiversity’s decline has found that threatened species are impacted by multiple stressors, especially too little — or too much fire, and introduced plants and animals.
18 April 2011
STUART Kininmonth’s life on a north Queensland tropical island is a world away from his childhood on a farm in Gippsland, Victoria.
17 March 2011
Raising a brood is a challenge at the best of times, but for a pair of dusky moorhens at The University of Queensland’s (UQ) St Lucia campus, the recent rains are making child rearing even more testing.
10 January 2011
What is believed to be the first science-based blueprint for managing Australia’s oceans has been developed to safeguard marine life and protect economic and social interests.
10 November 2010A new article in the international scientific journal Conservation Biology shows that Australia’s most endangered species are extremely poorly represented in the nation’s protected area system.
3 November 2010The University of Queensland will lead two new Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence which have been awarded $36.4 million today to position Australia internationally in quantum technologies and to help solve environmental management...
16 July 2010Readers of The Scientist magazine have ranked The University of Queensland, Australia as the top international academic institution outside the USA in the magazine’s annual Best Places to Work in Academia 2010 survey.
6 July 2010Replacing a small number of national parks and other protected areas with new ones that achieve more for conservation and biodiversity is the recommendation released today in the science journal Nature.
29 June 2010UQ dugong researcher Elizabeth Burgess has been awarded a Queensland-Smithsonian Fellowship 2010.
17 June 2010UQ environmental planning experts are working to find the best solution to a $2.2 billion question – how best to manage and preserve Australia’s biodiversity.
1 June 2010Eleven University of Queensland researchers have been honoured as international leaders in their fields at a ceremony today.
13 April 2010UQ’s newly established Global Change Institute has received $1.4 million in ARC funding to attract the best young minds to tackle climate change.
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