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‘Green desert’: the farmers winning a battle with Brazil’s wood-pulp giant Eucalyptus production is dominated by large multinationals that convert farmland and forest into monoculture plantations

Plantation forestry is an ecocidal abomination across the entire planet, not just Ireland.
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Brigitte Duclos & I discuss why 24 hour cat curfews & containment are good for cats, wildlife, & human health, in cities & rural Australia, including on farms.

Interview starts ~ 1:44:26 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Living sculpture.

Notice also the pool of water held in the crook of this ancient oak on the shores of Kenmare River (bay).

Getting the EPBC Act right | Biodiversity Council Australia Our factsheet outlines the strengths, weaknesses, and recommended improvements to the Australian Government’s proposed environmental law reforms.

Look, what happened to Gough Whitlam was terrible, he was a visionary. But, I'm far more concerned about how terrible @australianlabor.bsky.social are TODAY, especially their pathetic environmental law reform package. Let's talk about the future, shall we?

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An orchid with the three bright yellow flowers with brownish purple markings

Diuris laxiflora - the Bee Orchid

A relatively small orchid, the Bee orchid is endemic to Western Australia and flowers between September and early November.

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #nature #bloomscrolling

‘Horrific’ mass koala starvation hits Victorian island Distressed locals have told of desperate koalas falling from trees and trying to eat vegetation such as pine needles.

This is deplorable.

Koalas suffer and ecosystems are trashed, because the Victorian government won't take sufficient proactive measures to prevent koala starvation.

The issue has been known for months, and such crises are predictable and preventable.

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Your regular reminder that by throwing away nature, we throw away *everything*.

After a 4y delay, @vicgovernment.bsky.social has released a disappointing response to the recommendations of an Expert Advisory Panel which reviewed the 1975 Wildlife Act, rejecting many critical recommendations from the Panel.

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Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

Australia's much loved wildlife and places sorely need greater care and legal protection.

Our latest for @aunz.theconversation.com.

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Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

‘Baudin’s or bauxite?’: stark warning black cockatoo won’t survive mining expansion BirdLife WA calls consequences of Alcoa’s proposals to clear 11,000ha of jarrah forest ‘irreversible and catastrophic’ for endangered bird

“Baudin’s or bauxite – we can’t have both”

It’s a stark warning … but Alcoa’s proposed expansions to its bauxite mining in WA’s jarrah forests will be catastrophic for the endangered Baudin’s black cockatoo.
#wildoz #ausbirds #ozplants #bauxite #conservation

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Landscape-wide modelling of canopy tree crowns and heights using LiDAR: a case study in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia Context Understanding the extant structure of forests reveals important insights into their ecological condition, age, biodiversity and related ecosystem services. Advances in LiDAR and computational…

#openaccess New #LiDAR methods are revealing the influence of land use change and climate change on forest height, as Patrick Norman and colleagues write

A stunning Mallee out in Southern cross #Eucalyptus burracoppinensis, named after the town Burracoppineast of Merredin. Gotta love an endemic Euc! And one with such stunning flowers and distinctive fruit!

I haven't read the book. What does it say about planned burns? Does he think they are a good thing or not? What about arboreal animals that will be killed by the fire? Thanks.

It is utterly shameful that the Western Australian government hasn’t committed to fully rehabilitating this site, the most contaminated mine site in the Southern Hemisphere, Australia’s Chernobyl.

Please share & demand this injustice is corrected. #CleanUpWittenoom

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Is it real?

The orchid Prasophyllum candidum, photographed by Lachlan Copeland, from the book Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT. The flowers are arranged in an alternating pattern along a straight, vertical stem. The flowers are a gentle pink colour with yellow centres and rust-coloured outer petals.

The mistletoe Amyema linophlla, photographed by Kevin Thiele, from the book Mistletoes of Western Australia. The plant has long pendent like protrusions covered in a soft grey-green fuzz.

The seeds of the Macaranga tanarius, photographed Hugh Nicholson, from the book Australian Rainforest Seeds. The seeds are dark, almost black, with light green spikey exteriors protecting them.

Blossoms from the wattle Acacia genistifolia, photographed by Alan Gibb, from the book Wattles of Victoria and Tasmania. The flowers have white filaments with yellow anther, and long spear-like green phyllodes growing from the stem.

Australia is home to approx 24,000 species of native plants 🌿

This #BiodiversityMonth, we’re celebrating the beauty and diversity of native flora — from orchids to mistletoes.

Our guide books are your companions for exploring them: www.publish.csiro.au/PlantsAndFun...

This #nationalthreatenedspecies day, please enjoy some fabulous #australianmammal images submitted by our talented and dedicated Committee..
#numbat - @ellaloeffler.bsky.social
#fattaileddunnart - @drdunnart.bsky.social
#leadbeaterspossum - Arabella Eyre
#spottedtailedquoll - Jemma Cripps

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Closes 19 September.

Nanna News 18 August 2025 Magistrate recognises that Nannas’ motivation in engaging in civil disobedience was altruism, Newcastle Council approves the 2025 People’s Blockade, Nannas start collecting evidence of disinf…

Our week: Nannas face charges for locking on to logging machinery in a NSW forest and we’ve begun an investigation on climate change misinformation and disinformation for a submission to a Senate Committee. How’s ur retirement going? 🧶 knittingnannas.org/2025/08/19/n...

Jarrah forests (Eucalyptus marginata) are unique to southwest Western Australia. They grow nowhere else. 🌿🌱🌳

Alcoa’s proposed #bauxite mine expansion threatens to destroy this unique #ecosystem whilst also releasing 1.3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases.

It’s a lose, lose scenario
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The Fingerboards Mine Was Rejected in 2021 — Let’s Keep It That Way!

💚 It’s time for Gippsland to come together once more to protect Country, water, farms, and communities.
✍️ Take action
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#GunaiKurnaiCountry #MineFreeGlenaladale #StopGCM #StopKalbar

Thanks Lyndall. We agree in total, but we have legislation in Victoria that says FFMV must do planned burns as part of fire mitigation. It's $$$ for the contractors and workers alike and all the science doesn't seem to change that.

Plants in a damp wet forest

This is a snapshot of an area in the Boola Boola State Forest on #gunaikurnaicountry that FFMV has on the list to burn in 2025. An area of damp, wet forest along a creek with abundant biodiversity. How is this even allowed?

I'll be talking rewilding with Cormac Hamil at Belfast's Féile an Phobail at 7.30 tomorrow evening (Wednesday the 6th).

I've always found Belfast audiences especially engaged when it comes to rewilding, so I'm expecting this to be another lively, highly stimulating discussion!

Join us if you can!!

"More than 300 species of Australian native mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians use tree hollows. But suitable hollows take time to form – often hundreds of years."

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There are still tickets available for the @warburton_environment launch of FOREST COUNTRY at Cameo Belgrave!

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Nodding greenhood orchids in the forest floor

Always lovely to see the first Nodding Greenhood Orchids for the season. 🙂 Victoria Australia. #Gunaikurnai country

Funded #PhD scholarship on the ecology of the eastern horseshoe bat and its sensitivity to the impacts of fire at Western Sydney Univeristy.

Link: www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/... #IBRC2025