News / Local
3 June 2026
$10 a week can change a life
Words by Belinda Boyce
A free community forum focused on echidnas will be held in Deception Bay this month.
The forum, titled Talking About Echidnas, will take place on Wednesday, 19 February, from 7pm to 9pm at the Deception Bay Environmental Hub, 7 Joseph Crescent, Deception Bay.
The session will be presented by Dr Kate Dutton-Regester, a wildlife scientist specialising in wildlife ecology and conservation, veterinary epidemiology and invasive species ecology.
Dr Dutton-Regester is an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science and collaborates closely with Wildlife Queensland, where she manages the EchidnaWatch platform.
Dr Kate Dutton-Regester with Victore the Echidna
She leads the Echidna Conservation: Building a Baseline program, which addresses long-standing data gaps for the short-beaked echidna. The program is generating the first regional-scale ecological dataset for echidnas in South-East Queensland.
The initiative involves collaboration with more than 10 local councils and community groups and includes camera trapping, community-led field monitoring and environmental DNA pilot studies.
The forum forms part of a series of environmental sustainability forum topics hosted at the Deception Bay Environmental Hub by Rotary-ESRAG (Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group).
The forum is free to attend.
More information about the event is available here.
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