Phill Cassey

Annual Lab Adelaide Fringe event 🥳 Always a huge success ✨️ www.cirquework.jp/yoah

Nearly 20,000 live animals seized, 365 suspects arrested in largest-ever wildlife and forestry operation 138 countries and regions join forces to target fauna and flora trafficking worldwide

www.interpol.int/en/News-and-... Operation Thunder 2024 rescues 20,000 live animals in global coordinated effort. @counteringcrime.bsky.social @invasionecology.bsky.social

Labor hasn’t delivered on more effective nature laws. It’s not just embarrassing, it’s calamitous | Tim Winton As Ningaloo reef bleaches and an election looms, we must look to those who stand in the way of our safety – the small cohort of people profiting from fossil fuels, and the politicians who protect them

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Cane toads on the barbie? How eating invasive species might help manage them New ABC series Eat the Invaders asks should invasive species be on our dinner plate – and what does it taste like?

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(!!) amp.abc.net.au/article/1047... @invasionecology.bsky.social @counteringcrime.bsky.social

Why, Amid The Horrors Of War, Ukraine Is Fighting For Nature Ukraine's minister of environmental protection has a seemingly impossible task: defending nature in a country at war. She explains how her fight gives her hope.

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Police seize 6,000 illegal wild birds’ eggs as raids net largest haul in UK history Part of an international initiative to combat organised wildlife crime, similar seizures in Australia and Norway have recovered more than 50,000 eggs

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‘When it’s on, it’s on’: Inside the Border Force crackdown on illegal foreign fishers 7NEWS can reveal 156 vessels have been stopped, and 83 pirates prosecuted, in the past six months alone.

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Ooops 2012, *not* 2020 🤣

For anyone wondering, I had two successful EoIs - but neither were funded. The EoI process didn't help me, this time round.

I'm not complaining, I've done well by the ARC, but DPs are hit and miss. Since 2020 I am 3 from 17.

Stay positive and be kind to each other @arc-tracker.bsky.social

Scientists track notorious pest worldwide as it destroys crops in worst incursion to date Fall armyworm has been referred to the "coronavirus of agriculture" with the devastation the moth causes likened to that of a bushfire. And unfortunately, it's here.

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Good morning 😎 To anyone waiting on ARC DP25 outcomes I hope you have a calm and relaxing day, and good luck @arc-tracker.bsky.social

‘Divorce’ in songbirds: extreme weather pushes couples past breaking point New research examines the link between extreme weather and divorce in a small monogamous tropical songbird, the Seychelles warbler. Concerningly, extreme rain and dry spells increased divorce rates.

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Screenshot of a tweet from the ARC saying they’ll announce DP25 grant outcomes tomorrow (Tuesday 26 Nov).

ARC says they’ll release the Discovery Projects 2025 outcomes tomorrow.

Recently, outcomes announcements have tended to happen at/around 11am Canberra time.

My bot will pick up the announcement in RMS’s database and post immediately.

Good luck!

Anyone working at the ARC want to accidentally upload an unmarked pdf to an unlisted page on the depths of the website this weekend?

Such a brilliant documentary film 🥰

Cane Toads: An Unnatural History - Wikipedia

I was reminded by an @invasionecology.bsky.social sort of post. Some invasives get songs & films. Popular 1988 doco with a title song by Neil Finn, Cane Toads an Unnatural History. Rent from NFSA for $3. There is a sequel too, The Conquest.

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Lord Howe Island's magical cloud forest makes 'unbelievable' recovery from vermin The forest at the tip of Lord Howe Island's highest peak is an otherworldly place alive with animals and plants not found elsewhere on Earth. But it's taken radical action to save it.

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*PLATYPUS*
Thank you Hobart 😍

It is frankly ridiculous how the ARC toys with the time and job security of grant applicants over and over again. It demands rigid adherence to deadlines and criteria from applicants yet its own processes are vague and shifting

'Warning bells ringing all over': Commercial lobster fishers call for cut to total catch The industry is worried it is taking too many crays out of Western Australia waters and wants recreational fishers to do their bit too, but scientists say they are not concerned.

Commercial lobster fishers want total catch cut to help save WA fishery www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

Such an amazing privilege to tour the Australian Antartica icebreaker Nuyina 😎

Could keeping native species as pets save them from extinction? Here’s why it’s not that simple Why can’t you keep a wombat or koala as a pet rather than a cat or dog? There are good reasons why keeping native animals as pets isn’t as easy as it seems

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The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other In our race to cool the planet, we must not compromise the ecosystems on which we depend.

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As Australia privatises nature repair, the cheapest approach won’t save our threatened species Australia’s carbon credit scheme largely fails to protect threatened species, despite assumptions to the contrary. The findings provide cautionary lessons for the nature repair scheme.

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Considered delicious fare overseas, if you catch this pest fish in Queensland you can't eat it Tilapia is a biosecurity nightmare in Australia but popular on many menus overseas. Some in the fishing industry think if you catch the pest fish in Queensland you should be able to eat it.

Calls for change so wild-caught pest fish tilapia can be eaten in Queensland www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

Smuggler caught with hundreds of tarantulas strapped to body in Peru A 28-year-old was man detained in Lima, accused of trying to transport endangered spiders, centipedes and ants from Peru to South Korea.

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So it's done. I have deactivated and deleted my Twitter account. I hope I'm not too late 🙃

Queensland woman fined $20,000 for illegally buying and selling reptiles Wildlife authorities received a tip-off before raiding the woman's home where they found dozens of snakes, lizards and eggs.

A significant bust on the Sunny Coast. @bastianltc.bsky.social @invasionecology.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Maybe the ARC could just let those of us that definitely didn’t get DPs know the outcome? Would sure be good to know outcomes before writing again…… @arc-tracker.bsky.social