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cardboardart.bsky.social @cardboardart.bsky.social · 18h

If your missing your spiders, maybe its time we 'introduced' some of ours to your hedgerows as payback for the misery UK sp. continue to impact our wildlife.
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Exclusion of invasive predators triggers succession, competition and habitat diversification in a small mammal community | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Invasive species can alter small mammal communities. We examined the abundance and demography of 10 Australian desert small mammals inside and outside a fenced reserve after the exclusion of invasive ...

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 20h

Good news everyone.

Australian-first treaty legislation passes in Victorian parliament

Historic legislation has passed that will see the creation of an Indigenous council that will be consulted on laws and policies affecting Indigenous communities.

www.abc.net.au

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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 2d

One for #Archtober (before I miss it altogether!)

This South Pacific Orb-weaver #spider is in the genus Acroaspis, possibly A. olorina given it was seen in Western Australia.
#ausinverts #wildoz #bugsky #inaturalist #nature

Picture of a spider on a wire railing. The spider has an extended and quite pointy abdomen

Picture of a spider on a wire railing, top view. The spider has an extended and quite pointy abdomen

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Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · 2d

We welcome QLD’s effort to establish new national parks, however, the state maintains globally significant rates of land clearing. A new study, comparing rates of protection versus destruction, highlights that new parks alone won’t protect biodiversity without efforts to stop clearing elsewhere 🌍🧪

A small kangaroo-like animal stands in dry, sandy forest. Text overlays says: New national parks alone won’t protect biodiversity - land clearing must also stop.

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cardboardart.bsky.social @cardboardart.bsky.social · 4d

People don't seem to make the connection between flying and Climate Warming, even those who are educated left leaning. I'm Australian which makes this worse, planes need full tanks for long haul, and even more fuel to get those full tanks in the air. It's the Rich who cause climate warming

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cardboardart.bsky.social @cardboardart.bsky.social · 5d

Canadians come to Australia fearful of snakes and spiders, but bears wandering the the burbs, bugger!

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cardboardart.bsky.social @cardboardart.bsky.social · 5d

As we do in Australia.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 5d

"It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter. At night, its voice once filled the forest of Christmas Island. Now the forest is silent. Australia’s only shrew, Crocidura trichura, is declared extinct"

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 5d

Bug spotted a tiny pseudoscorpion today and was appropriately excited 🥹

Spotting extremely tiny things (by the way they move) is a skill that can be learned.
#Arachtober

Also I don't think I've seen this species before, with its handsome little white rows of setae, so that's fun!

Little dark brown pseudoscorpion with thick pinchy arms, on a dry oak leaf

The creature with pinchy arms spread, facing you

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 5d

A white-plumed honeyeater at the dam.

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cardboardart.bsky.social @cardboardart.bsky.social · 5d

Great to watch them dropping into water for a splash. The shot shows their beauty. Can be annoyingly plentiful sometimes if you get my drift.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6d

Stonepeak is a private equity firm founded by two Australian billionaires, Michael Dorrell and Trent Vichie.

Dorrell owns the only private island in Palm Beach, Florida.

Vichie’s company, Everwind Fuels, claims to be a developing “green” energy alternatives.

Now they’re human traffickers.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 6d

This ICE removal operated by Omni Air International is now making its second stop, in Sri Lanka. So far, migrants onboard have spent 34 hours in handcuffs, leg irons and a waist chain. There may be more stops.

Omni and its parent company were purchased in April by private equity firm Stonepeak.

An ADSBx map of South Asia showing the flight path of Omni aircraft N819AX. It flew east, landed in New Delhi, then flew south and is approacing Colombo, Sir Lanka.

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cardboardart.bsky.social @cardboardart.bsky.social · 6d

Humans are incapable of limiting any trade over time, history shows regulations are soon compromised when money can be made. Trophy hunting is really the thin edge of a wedge in which animal sp. like forests now, are going.

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Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · 9d

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.

See our assessment: biodiversitycouncil....

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 10d

#kakapo breeding starts with the feeding. For the last month we've been putting out food on Whenua Hou to get the adults into breeding condition. We need the males fat enough to boom and the females heavy enough to produce eggs (although not too hefty or their chicks will all be males). #parrots

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cardboardart.bsky.social @cardboardart.bsky.social · 21d

Still a bloody big egg though!

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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cardboardart.bsky.social @cardboardart.bsky.social · 21d

You nailed it Sandy. Power, Wealth and Stardom have become synonymous, and those with it are blind to other issues, including the demise of natural systems. Most people sadly seem dazzled, like rabbits in headlights, and vote for them.

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cardboardart.bsky.social @cardboardart.bsky.social · 25d

A little similar built during Australian gold rush 1870s by Irish architect Robert Love who worked in Cincinnati for several years. I am restoring, Bendigo Victoria Aust.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 27d

"It is true that I know only one side of the picture from the seven years I spent covering Gaza. I was on the receiving end of Israeli attacks, including being bombed by its air force and fired upon by its snipers, one of whom killed a young man a few feet away from me at the Netzarim Junction."

Michelle Fahy @michellefahy.bsky.social · 27d

CHRIS HEDGES says his talk at National Press Club on “The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists” - focusing on the amplification of Israeli lies in the press - has been cancelled.

“In the interest of balancing out our program”, chief executive of NPC Maurice Reilly

open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists

The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

open.substack.com

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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 29d

While the Coalition double down on expensive nuclear - we’re getting on with rebuilding our grid.

Less coal and more renewables is good for bills and the environment.

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cardboardart.bsky.social @cardboardart.bsky.social · Sep 27

Excellent

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Sep 26

The majority of the UN walked out of the General Assembly hall as Netanyahu, representing Israel, tried to brag about his criminal actions in Gaza and the region, loud booing ensued leaving Netanyahu visibly shaking in anger.

cardboardart.bsky.social @cardboardart.bsky.social · Sep 27

He said with a grin.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · Sep 23

ABC’s John Lyons has slammed Israel for wiping out an average of 28 children in Gaza “Every Day. Week in, week out, month in, month out”

Lyons “There are on avg. a classroom of Palestinian children in Gaza today, who this time tomorrow will be killed by an Israeli bomb”😳 #Abc

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