Nicola Beynon

Nicola Beynon

@nicolabeynon.bsky.social

Head of Campaigns Humane Society International Australia. Views my own

138 Followers 11 Following 4 Posts Joined Nov 2024
11 months ago
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Dutton vows fast-track approval for Woodside's gas behemoth The opposition leader would move to facilitate approval for the WA gas expansion within 30 days, and crack down on appeals against approval decisions.

I fail to see how accelerated climate change could possibly be in the national interest. The national interest exemption was intended for natural disaster & war time national emergencies not misuse for fossil fuel profits at the expense of the country’s climate safety www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

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STATEMENT: Politicians should stop using endangered Maugean skate as a political football - Humane Society International (HSI) Politicians should stop using endangered Maugean skate as a political football  12 December 2024 The beleaguered Maugean skate is on the precipice of extinction but, instead of focusing on how to save...

Politicians should stop using the Maugean skate as a political football. Smart politics would find ways for nature and jobs to co-exist hsi.org.au/blog/stateme...

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‘Increasingly worried’: more than a quarter of a million waterbirds disappear from eastern Australia One of the world’s longest continuous bird counts has dashed the ‘wistful optimism’ of scientists hoping for a La Niña-driven recovery

Why then are we still allowing landholders to shoot water birds in NSW? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Animal protection NGOs deplore decision to downgrade wolf protection BRUSSELS—Today’s decision by the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention to downgrade the protection of the wolf represents a dangerous...

⚠️🐺HSI/Europe, IFAW and Eurogroup for Animals warn that the decision by the Standing Committee of the #BernConvention to downgrade the protection of the #wolf sets a dangerous precedent for #wildlife #conservation in Europe.

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Licence to Kill - Humane Society International (HSI) Every year, Australia’s state and territory governments allow private landholders to kill hundreds of thousands of native animals—animals that are otherwise protected by law. For the first time ever, ...

HSI calls for new era of wildlife co-existence and an end to killing as the default for wildlife conflicts. Follows new report which for the first time quantifies the national persecution of Australia’s native animals hsi.org.au/licence-to-k...

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