Lowlandsbeach
@lowlandsbeach.bsky.social
Storyminding, Biodiversity Blissfinding, Respect for Aboriginal culture. Western Australia https://lowlandsbeach.medium.com/happy-halloween-breakfast-with-a-view-e4f80617be47
Grasshopper today while weeding the remnant urban bushland
October 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Grasshopper today while weeding the remnant urban bushland
Question of balance? Removing fumitory in urban fragment reveg bushland (weed paradise) to save reveg native seedlings, or preserve weedy understorey as bobtail habitat? Mosaic a bit of both perhaps?
October 5, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Question of balance? Removing fumitory in urban fragment reveg bushland (weed paradise) to save reveg native seedlings, or preserve weedy understorey as bobtail habitat? Mosaic a bit of both perhaps?
"The overpowering pain that someone is feeling when they take their own life doesn’t go away when they die. It just gets passed on to the people who love them."
An important and very well-written piece.
Obvious trigger warning, discussion of suicide
Obvious trigger warning, discussion of suicide
Dad was extraordinarily selfless, disciplined and stoic. Until it all got too much
I’ll always wonder if things might have turned out differently if he’d had just one understanding mate or a crew where he wasn’t in the role of dad or husband.
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"The overpowering pain that someone is feeling when they take their own life doesn’t go away when they die. It just gets passed on to the people who love them."
"conservationists have dedicated decades to protecting cool temperate rainforests in the north west of the state in an area where research demonstrates that, pre invasion, these forests largely didn’t exist"
'The forest conservation movement is not equipped to respond meaningfully to First Nation aspirations because it has not accepted that forested lands were never a wilderness. There is no shared space that allows a starting point in discussing what next'.
themountainjournal.com/2025/09/10/l...
themountainjournal.com/2025/09/10/l...
Letting go of the wilderness. Holding on to the Wild
As the process of a Treaty between First Peoples and the state of Victoria gets closer to agreement, I keep wondering about what it will all mean for the lands that we love. With an end to native f…
themountainjournal.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"conservationists have dedicated decades to protecting cool temperate rainforests in the north west of the state in an area where research demonstrates that, pre invasion, these forests largely didn’t exist"
Yummy quick soup for cold wet day. I just ate 2 servings! I added a dash of milk & a squeeze of lemon to my bowl instead of to the pot as I'm going to freeze the leftovers www.kyleecooks.com/white-bean-p...
October 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Yummy quick soup for cold wet day. I just ate 2 servings! I added a dash of milk & a squeeze of lemon to my bowl instead of to the pot as I'm going to freeze the leftovers www.kyleecooks.com/white-bean-p...
Being educated. So far I've learnt that "There are no randomised controlled trials of parachutes"
October 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Being educated. So far I've learnt that "There are no randomised controlled trials of parachutes"
I think this might be ricinocarpos wedding bush. Seven petalled flowers and grooved fruit in Mueller Park Subiaco Western Australia. Wondering if 7 petals are unusual?
October 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I think this might be ricinocarpos wedding bush. Seven petalled flowers and grooved fruit in Mueller Park Subiaco Western Australia. Wondering if 7 petals are unusual?
Settlement of native title in Western Australia described as 'Australia's First Treaty'. Noongar (Koorah, Nitja, Boordahwan) (Past, Present, Future) Recognition Act 2016. Noongar Boodja Trust receiving yearly instalments of $50 million for 12 years static1.squarespace.com/static/56cac...
September 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Settlement of native title in Western Australia described as 'Australia's First Treaty'. Noongar (Koorah, Nitja, Boordahwan) (Past, Present, Future) Recognition Act 2016. Noongar Boodja Trust receiving yearly instalments of $50 million for 12 years static1.squarespace.com/static/56cac...
"Conservationists have dedicated decades to protecting cool temperate rainforests in the north west of the state in an area where research demonstrates that, pre invasion, these forests largely didn’t exist at scale" themountainjournal.com/2025/09/10/l...
September 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"Conservationists have dedicated decades to protecting cool temperate rainforests in the north west of the state in an area where research demonstrates that, pre invasion, these forests largely didn’t exist at scale" themountainjournal.com/2025/09/10/l...
India Day parade in Freo today. Scottish bagpipes and Indian bagpipes
August 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
India Day parade in Freo today. Scottish bagpipes and Indian bagpipes
Love this vid of wind turbines rising
If you old enough, you've seen these
If you've not seen these, you're now old enough
It is time to move on
Thanks @ecotricity.bsky.social
Coal towers exiting, wind on the rise
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If you've not seen these, you're now old enough
It is time to move on
Thanks @ecotricity.bsky.social
Coal towers exiting, wind on the rise
(More in the reply)
August 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Love this vid of wind turbines rising
Choice of sites for windfarms, there may be some no go areas. Well positioned windfarms are needed to replace ageing coal plants and cut greenhouse gas emissions. I don't know enough about this to comment www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Which way will the wind blow? Decision day looms for planned windfarm on Tasmania’s Robbins Island
Bird lovers and business leaders await verdict on a long-fought proposal to build up to 100 turbines
www.theguardian.com
August 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Choice of sites for windfarms, there may be some no go areas. Well positioned windfarms are needed to replace ageing coal plants and cut greenhouse gas emissions. I don't know enough about this to comment www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Make your submission now to protect the Northern Jarrah forests
1.3 billion tonnes of GHG emissions and critical risks to Perth’s water security and the Northern Jarrah forests. There’s a few more days to make a submission on Alcoa’s plan to expand mining in Perth hills.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Perth council rejects Alcoa bauxite drilling over water, forest concerns
US aluminium giant Alcoa's proposed expansions to its mining operations near Perth could lead to the release of three years' worth of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions — in Australia and downstream...
www.abc.net.au
August 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Make your submission now to protect the Northern Jarrah forests
You can make a submission. Terms of reference include how misinformation & disinformation related to climate change & energy is financed, produced & disseminated, including, the origins, growth & prevalence of ‘astroturfing’ and its impact on public policy & debate www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
August 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
You can make a submission. Terms of reference include how misinformation & disinformation related to climate change & energy is financed, produced & disseminated, including, the origins, growth & prevalence of ‘astroturfing’ and its impact on public policy & debate www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
You have until 21 August to make your submission to EPA to protect the Northern Jarrah forest. Your to do list for the weekend starts here wafa.org.au/alcoa/
August 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
You have until 21 August to make your submission to EPA to protect the Northern Jarrah forest. Your to do list for the weekend starts here wafa.org.au/alcoa/
About 5% of common Australian wild birds including kookaburras and lorikeets could have undergone a “sex reversal” where their genetic sex does not match their reproductive organs, according to a new study. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Mind-blown’: scientists discover sex reversal in kookaburras and lorikeets with cause unknown
Almost all of the ‘sex discordant’ birds were genetically female but had male reproductive organs, study finds
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
About 5% of common Australian wild birds including kookaburras and lorikeets could have undergone a “sex reversal” where their genetic sex does not match their reproductive organs, according to a new study. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I got so frustrated from seeing this happen, I have done a BIG fb post about it and it has been wonderful to see in the comments so many older users *get it immediately*. You CAN talk to your mum about healthy Facebook usage - she survived the 60s, she’s not dopey: www.facebook.com/share/p/15iX...
August 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I got so frustrated from seeing this happen, I have done a BIG fb post about it and it has been wonderful to see in the comments so many older users *get it immediately*. You CAN talk to your mum about healthy Facebook usage - she survived the 60s, she’s not dopey: www.facebook.com/share/p/15iX...
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I am BEGGING people to condemn the attempts at Nazi rallies in Australia without telling every prospective attendee when and where they will be held and where to find the organisers. Please - please - stop doing the far right’s publicity for them, that’s how we lost the Voice.
#auspol
#auspol
August 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I am BEGGING people to condemn the attempts at Nazi rallies in Australia without telling every prospective attendee when and where they will be held and where to find the organisers. Please - please - stop doing the far right’s publicity for them, that’s how we lost the Voice.
#auspol
#auspol
Tallest public art in Perth? Smokestack chimney in Subi
August 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Tallest public art in Perth? Smokestack chimney in Subi
I think there's hundreds of species of pterostylis orchids. Here's a couple that are flowering in Kings Park today
August 12, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I think there's hundreds of species of pterostylis orchids. Here's a couple that are flowering in Kings Park today
You are a critter looking for nectar in Kings Park today, which flower is deceiving you?
August 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
You are a critter looking for nectar in Kings Park today, which flower is deceiving you?
Hoverfly on the carnivorous drosera in Kings Park today.
August 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Hoverfly on the carnivorous drosera in Kings Park today.
Thousands in Tel Aviv protest. Organisers say more than 100,000 people joined demonstration demanding end to military campaign www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
August 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Thousands in Tel Aviv protest. Organisers say more than 100,000 people joined demonstration demanding end to military campaign www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Solar farming in Aust from @racheljourno.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/earth/agricu...
Dreaming of solar electric sheep
We might call them solar farms, but there’s often no farming going on under solar panels. But a solar harvest doesn’t need to impact agricultural output.
cosmosmagazine.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Solar farming in Aust from @racheljourno.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/earth/agricu...