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Working the night shift for protection, conservation and education for bats and their habitat on the unceded lands of Gunnai Kurnai, Ngarigo and Bidwell nations
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Grey-headed flying foxes are called an ‘umbrella species’, because so many plants and animals live under their work. Their job is forest building and they are a keystone species in the ecology of east coast forests.
💧 Demand Real Rehab, Not River Theft. Toxic mines don’t deserve rivers. Plans to divert 2,800 billion litres of fresh Latrobe River water — more than 4 Sydney Harbours — to fill old coal pits are reckless, dangerous, and unjust. #GunaiKurnaiCountry👇🏽
www.geg.org.au/latrobe-coal...
​​Don’t Sacrifice Gippsland Lakes to Fill Coal Mines
Diverting Latrobe River water to fill toxic coal mines threatens Gippsland Lakes & ecosystems
www.geg.org.au
🦇🎨🚶🏽‍♀️Celebrating young artists and their role in protecting precious biodiversity #NationalThreatenedSpeciesDay2025
More info and resources on the link
www.eastgippslandartgallery.org.au/threatened-s...
‘A prescribed burn that is estimated to have felled hundreds of rare trees found only in a pocket on WAs south coast has been labelled a success by the department responsible, despite acknowledging it failed to protect the under-threat trees.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Burn that toppled estimated 400yo tingle tree killed 'hundreds more'
The felling of what is estimated to be hundreds of tingle trees in a burn last December has sparked fresh calls for a review of prescribed burning in WA.
www.abc.net.au
Providence Ponds Flora and Fauna Reserve is one of only five known locations in Victoria of the nationally threatened Pookila/New Holland Mouse, Pseudomys novaehollandiae. The recent incineration of known colony sites here by #FFMV is totally unacceptable
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Israel is enacting ' the final solution' in Gaza as all internet, electricity and water is cut off and everyone is distracted by Israel's warcrimes elsewhere and AIPACS incursion on American rule of law.
Don't stop talking about Palestine.
Yes and conveniently ignored the fact that many of the significant old trees were in the interior of the burn and just collapsed in the fire
Exactly! Here's another disaster in a Park - over 80 large and significant old trees collapsed and felled in just 20ha surveyed. Chris Hardman, #FFMV Fire Chief said "The felled trees identified in the photos you have provided had been assessed as being hazardous" www.geg.org.au/lake-tyers-p...
Lake Tyers State Park Toorloo Arm
Serious damage to environmental values by FFMV
www.geg.org.au
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On tonight 6.30pm
Reminder that the VFA's webinar on the recent koala culls in Budj Bim is on this Thursday!

Register for this free session with Dr. Stephen Phillips through the link:
www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/vfa_webinar_...
In VIC there is no mandatory Code for protection of biodiversity values in planned burn operations that takes into account obligations under the EPBC Act. Contact those in charge. Ask them to put independent oversight in place and regulate impacts using up-to-date science
vnpa.org.au/action-minis...
Minister: Give wildlife habitats proper oversight - Victorian National Parks Association
Ask the minister to protect nature, put independent oversight in place and regulate impacts using up-to-date science.
vnpa.org.au
April 2024: #FFMV Burning Special Protection Zones The most recent survey recorded 9 Yellow-Bellied Gliders and 12 Greater Gliders in the Wattle Ck Rd burn. Other records included Long-nosed Bandicoots Koalas. See link for what happened #GunaiKurnaiCountry www.geg.org.au/wattle-ck-ki...
FFMV burning the Special Protection Zone
Forest Fire Management VIC burning habitat of Greater gliders, Yellow bellied gliders, Powerful owls, Sooty owls, Long-nosed bandicoots, Koalas
www.geg.org.au
🦇 For the first time in many years, all the grey headed flying foxes have left town. We’d love to know where they’ve gone to find blossom: Bairnsdale #GunaiKurnaiCountry