KinglakeForest
@kinglakeforest.bsky.social
Advocating for the protection of native forests in Victoria. Please sign our petition to end unscientific planned burns!
https://www.change.org/p/stop-broadscale-burning-of-native-forest?fbclid=IwAR3tGhvpEBb6xsLzMeJoXmpmZ6nJTgZJ3m5lPlb5bSrry45LQLjfiPgCgu8
https://www.change.org/p/stop-broadscale-burning-of-native-forest?fbclid=IwAR3tGhvpEBb6xsLzMeJoXmpmZ6nJTgZJ3m5lPlb5bSrry45LQLjfiPgCgu8
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Why FFMV sucks. Another installment in a never ending series.
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The Victorian Forest Alliance has a new monthly giving program — the VFA Forest Champions — to build a strong, sustainable base of support for our forests. 🌳🐦
Right now, every monthly donation is matched, so your support goes twice as far.
➡ www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/donate
Right now, every monthly donation is matched, so your support goes twice as far.
➡ www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/donate
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The Victorian Forest Alliance has a new monthly giving program — the VFA Forest Champions — to build a strong, sustainable base of support for our forests. 🌳🐦
Right now, every monthly donation is matched, so your support goes twice as far.
➡ www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/donate
Right now, every monthly donation is matched, so your support goes twice as far.
➡ www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/donate
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For Labor, climate change is not a horrifying threat to our children but an economic impediment to be managed at the pleasure of the big end of town, not least the fossil fuel and woodchip corporations.
Free to read
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22234/...
Free to read
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22234/...
Watt reforms leave door wide open to environmental carnage
ANALYSIS: Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
For Labor, climate change is not a horrifying threat to our children but an economic impediment to be managed at the pleasure of the big end of town, not least the fossil fuel and woodchip corporations.
Free to read
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22234/...
Free to read
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22234/...
A bit short notice (soz) but if you want to see how the Victorian government is wrecking our forests, there is a tour happening tomorrow.
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
A bit short notice (soz) but if you want to see how the Victorian government is wrecking our forests, there is a tour happening tomorrow.
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Please write to these companies and ask them not to sell illegal fruit netting that kills thousands of bats and birds every year au.news.yahoo.com/amazon-ebay-...
Amazon, eBay and Temu respond after 'revolting' items sent to Aussie man's address
Retailers claim they're working to remove similar items from sale. Find out more.
au.news.yahoo.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Please write to these companies and ask them not to sell illegal fruit netting that kills thousands of bats and birds every year au.news.yahoo.com/amazon-ebay-...
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Landscapes painted on the surfaces of cut logs by US artist Alison Moritsugu #WomensArt
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Landscapes painted on the surfaces of cut logs by US artist Alison Moritsugu #WomensArt
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REPOST from the amazing @kinglakeforest.bsky.social who conducted an incredible Bioblitz. Congratulations to all involved!
"We’re so grateful to everyone who came out on Saturday for our first every bioblitz. It was epic. 100 people conducting 15 surveys over 12 hours."
"We’re so grateful to everyone who came out on Saturday for our first every bioblitz. It was epic. 100 people conducting 15 surveys over 12 hours."
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
REPOST from the amazing @kinglakeforest.bsky.social who conducted an incredible Bioblitz. Congratulations to all involved!
"We’re so grateful to everyone who came out on Saturday for our first every bioblitz. It was epic. 100 people conducting 15 surveys over 12 hours."
"We’re so grateful to everyone who came out on Saturday for our first every bioblitz. It was epic. 100 people conducting 15 surveys over 12 hours."
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Forestry Corporation posts another multi-million-dollar loss in native forest division
echo.net.au/2025/12/fore...
Forestry Corporation lost $85 million over 4 years...
‘Taxpayers are paying an exorbitant cost to subsidise private sawmillers to log native forests.’
#nswpol #EndNativeForestLogging
echo.net.au/2025/12/fore...
Forestry Corporation lost $85 million over 4 years...
‘Taxpayers are paying an exorbitant cost to subsidise private sawmillers to log native forests.’
#nswpol #EndNativeForestLogging
Forestry Corporation posts another multi-million-dollar loss in native forest division
The Forestry Corporation’s loss of $32 million from its hardwood logging operations last year, coupled with their ongoing failure to honour wood supply agreements, shows that logging public native for...
echo.net.au
December 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Forestry Corporation posts another multi-million-dollar loss in native forest division
echo.net.au/2025/12/fore...
Forestry Corporation lost $85 million over 4 years...
‘Taxpayers are paying an exorbitant cost to subsidise private sawmillers to log native forests.’
#nswpol #EndNativeForestLogging
echo.net.au/2025/12/fore...
Forestry Corporation lost $85 million over 4 years...
‘Taxpayers are paying an exorbitant cost to subsidise private sawmillers to log native forests.’
#nswpol #EndNativeForestLogging
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An important piece showing that we have known for a long time - more prescribed burns do not automatically make forests safer from #bushfire - a lesson that indigenous people learnt thousands of years ago 🧪
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
In 1939, a Royal Commission found burning forests leads to more bushfires. But this cycle of destruction can be stopped
After devastating fires in 1939, authorities began burning forests to reduce fuel load. But we now know this creates conditions for even worse fires.
theconversation.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 AM
An important piece showing that we have known for a long time - more prescribed burns do not automatically make forests safer from #bushfire - a lesson that indigenous people learnt thousands of years ago 🧪
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
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"If large-scale prescribed burning and incentives to backburn ended, the area burned annually would immediately fall 87%, leaving only fires started by lightning, accident or arson."
"Authorities need to heavily invest in rapid fire detection and attack."
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
"Authorities need to heavily invest in rapid fire detection and attack."
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
In 1939, a Royal Commission found burning forests leads to more bushfires. But this cycle of destruction can be stopped
After devastating fires in 1939, authorities began burning forests to reduce fuel load. But we now know this creates conditions for even worse fires.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
"If large-scale prescribed burning and incentives to backburn ended, the area burned annually would immediately fall 87%, leaving only fires started by lightning, accident or arson."
"Authorities need to heavily invest in rapid fire detection and attack."
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
"Authorities need to heavily invest in rapid fire detection and attack."
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
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Want to help Palestinians? Buy your Christmas gifts from www.palestinefairtradeaustralia.org.au
Home | Palestine Fair Trade Australia
Providing a unique range of ethically sourced and fair trade products from Palestine.
www.palestinefairtradeaustralia.org.au
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Want to help Palestinians? Buy your Christmas gifts from www.palestinefairtradeaustralia.org.au
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"Prescribed burning resets the clock, giving a few short years with an open understorey. But the void is soon filled by flammable fast-growing shrubs."
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"Prescribed burning resets the clock, giving a few short years with an open understorey. But the void is soon filled by flammable fast-growing shrubs."
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...
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This is a clearly written, evidenced-based article by two highly respected academics.
So it probably won't be read by anyone at Forest Fire Management Victoria.
So it probably won't be read by anyone at Forest Fire Management Victoria.
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is a clearly written, evidenced-based article by two highly respected academics.
So it probably won't be read by anyone at Forest Fire Management Victoria.
So it probably won't be read by anyone at Forest Fire Management Victoria.
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BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace have scaled and blocked a coal ship bound for Newcastle today for #RisingTide, deploying a banner with a message to Labor 👉🏼 “Phase Out Coal and Gas”.
www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
November 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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1/3 In among some good news, #7 remains the real kicker:
The restoration contributions fund will "relax “like-for-like” rules that previously required offsets to deliver an environmental benefit for the same species or ecosystem affected by a development."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The restoration contributions fund will "relax “like-for-like” rules that previously required offsets to deliver an environmental benefit for the same species or ecosystem affected by a development."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Seven ways Australia’s nature laws are changing after Labor’s deal with the Greens
Legislation to reform the EPBC Act runs to hundreds of pages – here are the main changes
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
1/3 In among some good news, #7 remains the real kicker:
The restoration contributions fund will "relax “like-for-like” rules that previously required offsets to deliver an environmental benefit for the same species or ecosystem affected by a development."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The restoration contributions fund will "relax “like-for-like” rules that previously required offsets to deliver an environmental benefit for the same species or ecosystem affected by a development."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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This is definitely a blind spot in the EPBC Act reform bills.
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
Long-awaited environment laws might get Australia sued. Here’s why
Labor has pledged to pass long-awaited environment laws this week. But the current reforms leave Australia open to legal challenge.
theconversation.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is definitely a blind spot in the EPBC Act reform bills.
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
#auslaw #auspol #climatecrisis
theconversation.com/long-awaited...
The awful reality of what Forest Fire Management is doing to our precious forests.
From the Victorian Forest Alliance Instagram page. Photos from Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland.
From the Victorian Forest Alliance Instagram page. Photos from Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland.
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The awful reality of what Forest Fire Management is doing to our precious forests.
From the Victorian Forest Alliance Instagram page. Photos from Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland.
From the Victorian Forest Alliance Instagram page. Photos from Friends of Bats and Habitat Gippsland.
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As EPBC reforms get framed as political tussles & deal-making, don't forget ongoing colonialism, what's at stake on Indigenous lands, and their warnings that bad amendments & inadequate environmental laws "risk irreversible damage to country, culture and communities"
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
As EPBC reforms get framed as political tussles & deal-making, don't forget ongoing colonialism, what's at stake on Indigenous lands, and their warnings that bad amendments & inadequate environmental laws "risk irreversible damage to country, culture and communities"
This is another strong argument against logging: the reduction in canopy it causes exposes gliders to added predation by owls.
Two rare Australian animals captured together in one photo. Sadly, one is eating the other.
au.news.yahoo.com/photographer...
au.news.yahoo.com/photographer...
Aussie woman unknowingly captures extraordinarily rare detail in bush photo
Most experts would dream of seeing just one of these two species. Find out more.
au.news.yahoo.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This is another strong argument against logging: the reduction in canopy it causes exposes gliders to added predation by owls.
'Asked if the staff exited the vehicles and assessed any nests or hollows on foot, the DBCA did not respond and declined to provide any data or copies of its assessments.'
The contempt this agency has for the public as well as any experts who contradict it is extraordinary.
The contempt this agency has for the public as well as any experts who contradict it is extraordinary.
Environmental and conservation experts in Western Australia challenge claims by Environment Minister Matthew Swinbourn that two endangered bird species were not present in a patch of Great Southern bushland set ablaze.
Conservationists condemn prescribed burn in cockatoo nesting area
Environmental and conservation experts in Western Australia challenge claims by Environment Minister Matthew Swinbourn that two endangered bird species were not present in a patch of Great Southern bushland set ablaze.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
'Asked if the staff exited the vehicles and assessed any nests or hollows on foot, the DBCA did not respond and declined to provide any data or copies of its assessments.'
The contempt this agency has for the public as well as any experts who contradict it is extraordinary.
The contempt this agency has for the public as well as any experts who contradict it is extraordinary.
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Any centrist uttering "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" is an absolute guaranteed pre-emptive alarm they're about to do something extremely bad
When @australianlabor.bsky.social trots out a warning to The Greens "not to "make the perfect the enemy of the good"" you can absolutely bet they're going to offer up crud & join forces with LNP to deploy media beat up strategies against people who want to prevent rubbishing of EPBC laws
Labor offers Greens forestry deal in exchange for support on environment laws
The ABC has been told the federal government is willing to ensure native forestry complies with tougher new standards within three years if the Greens back the reforms.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Any centrist uttering "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" is an absolute guaranteed pre-emptive alarm they're about to do something extremely bad
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Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny
-Virginia Young
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
-Virginia Young
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Australians are being asked to believe we can protect nature by exploiting it faster and with less scrutiny
-Virginia Young
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
-Virginia Young
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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My mums cats still need homes, they also need a foster on the central coast in the meantime. If anyone can help at all, even just asking around, please do 🙏
This is the last thing I can do for her, and it would mean everything if I can just make sure they’re okay 🙏
This is the last thing I can do for her, and it would mean everything if I can just make sure they’re okay 🙏
Phoebe and Steve. Please ask around if you can, I know it’s a big ask but I’m desperate to find them a good home
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My mums cats still need homes, they also need a foster on the central coast in the meantime. If anyone can help at all, even just asking around, please do 🙏
This is the last thing I can do for her, and it would mean everything if I can just make sure they’re okay 🙏
This is the last thing I can do for her, and it would mean everything if I can just make sure they’re okay 🙏
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Friday music
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Friday music
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“Once you take their habitat away, they die, so logging this forest is a really permanent end to these creatures. It’s quite heartbreaking.”
Conservationists are calling for timber harvesting to be prevented close to endangered greater habitat.
au.yahoo.com/news/late-ni...
Conservationists are calling for timber harvesting to be prevented close to endangered greater habitat.
au.yahoo.com/news/late-ni...
Late-night discovery in bushland sparks fears for rare Aussie animal: 'Epic failure'
Few people are aware of this 1.7kg animal that lives high in Australia's trees. Find out more.
au.yahoo.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“Once you take their habitat away, they die, so logging this forest is a really permanent end to these creatures. It’s quite heartbreaking.”
Conservationists are calling for timber harvesting to be prevented close to endangered greater habitat.
au.yahoo.com/news/late-ni...
Conservationists are calling for timber harvesting to be prevented close to endangered greater habitat.
au.yahoo.com/news/late-ni...