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Biodiversity Council @biodivcouncil.bsky.social · 8d

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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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 20d

Australia's much loved wildlife and places sorely need greater care and legal protection.

Our latest for @aunz.theconversation.com.

theconversation.com/labor-is-clo... With good friends and colleagues, @drphilmccormack.bsky.social & @yungenchee.bsky.social.

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 22d

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 25d

“Baudin’s or bauxite – we can’t have both”

It’s a stark warning … but Alcoa’s proposed expansions to its bauxite mining in WA’s jarrah forests will be catastrophic for the endangered Baudin’s black cockatoo.
#wildoz #ausbirds #ozplants #bauxite #conservation

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Baudin’s or bauxite?’: stark warning black cockatoo won’t survive mining expansion

BirdLife WA calls consequences of Alcoa’s proposals to clear 11,000ha of jarrah forest ‘irreversible and catastrophic’ for endangered bird

www.theguardian.com

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Australian Journal of Botany @ausjbotany.bsky.social · 27d

#openaccess New #LiDAR methods are revealing the influence of land use change and climate change on forest height, as Patrick Norman and colleagues write

Landscape-wide modelling of canopy tree crowns and heights using LiDAR: a case study in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia

Context Understanding the extant structure of forests reveals important insights into their ecological condition, age, biodiversity and related ecosystem services. Advances in LiDAR and computational…

www.publish.csiro.au

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · Sep 22

A stunning Mallee out in Southern cross #Eucalyptus burracoppinensis, named after the town Burracoppineast of Merredin. Gotta love an endemic Euc! And one with such stunning flowers and distinctive fruit!

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Save Tyers/Boola Boola Trees @sacredkingfisher.bsky.social · Sep 20

I haven't read the book. What does it say about planned burns? Does he think they are a good thing or not? What about arboreal animals that will be killed by the fire? Thanks.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Sep 18

It is utterly shameful that the Western Australian government hasn’t committed to fully rehabilitating this site, the most contaminated mine site in the Southern Hemisphere, Australia’s Chernobyl.

Please share & demand this injustice is corrected. #CleanUpWittenoom

www.cleanupwittenoom.com/donate

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Save Tyers/Boola Boola Trees @sacredkingfisher.bsky.social · Sep 12

Is it real?

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CSIRO Publishing @csiropublishing.bsky.social · Sep 11

Australia is home to approx 24,000 species of native plants 🌿

This #BiodiversityMonth, we’re celebrating the beauty and diversity of native flora — from orchids to mistletoes.

Our guide books are your companions for exploring them: www.publish.csiro.au/PlantsAndFun...

The orchid Prasophyllum candidum, photographed by Lachlan Copeland, from the book Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT. The flowers are arranged in an alternating pattern along a straight, vertical stem. The flowers are a gentle pink colour with yellow centres and rust-coloured outer petals.

The mistletoe Amyema linophlla, photographed by Kevin Thiele, from the book Mistletoes of Western Australia. The plant has long pendent like protrusions covered in a soft grey-green fuzz.

The seeds of the Macaranga tanarius, photographed Hugh Nicholson, from the book Australian Rainforest Seeds. The seeds are dark, almost black, with light green spikey exteriors protecting them.

Blossoms from the wattle Acacia genistifolia, photographed by Alan Gibb, from the book Wattles of Victoria and Tasmania. The flowers have white filaments with yellow anther, and long spear-like green phyllodes growing from the stem.

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Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · Sep 7

This #nationalthreatenedspecies day, please enjoy some fabulous #australianmammal images submitted by our talented and dedicated Committee..
#numbat - @ellaloeffler.bsky.social
#fattaileddunnart - @drdunnart.bsky.social
#leadbeaterspossum - Arabella Eyre
#spottedtailedquoll - Jemma Cripps

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Save Tyers/Boola Boola Trees @sacredkingfisher.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Sep 5

Protecting darkness and minimising light pollution is important for human and wildlife health. Please consider signing and sharing this petition.

Petition EN7346 - National Legislation for Light Pollution Regulation and Dark Sky Preservation www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Closes 19 September.

e-petitions

www.aph.gov.au

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our week: Nannas face charges for locking on to logging machinery in a NSW forest and we’ve begun an investigation on climate change misinformation and disinformation for a submission to a Senate Committee. How’s ur retirement going? 🧶 knittingnannas.org/2025/08/19/n...

Nanna News 18 August 2025

Magistrate recognises that Nannas’ motivation in engaging in civil disobedience was altruism, Newcastle Council approves the 2025 People’s Blockade, Nannas start collecting evidence of disinf…

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · Aug 14

Jarrah forests (Eucalyptus marginata) are unique to southwest Western Australia. They grow nowhere else. 🌿🌱🌳

Alcoa’s proposed #bauxite mine expansion threatens to destroy this unique #ecosystem whilst also releasing 1.3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases.

It’s a lose, lose scenario
#wildoz

Wilderness Society @wilderness.org.au · Aug 14

This was once a jarrah forest. 🌳 Now, it’s a bauxite mine. ⛏️

US mining giant #Alcoa wants to destroy 11,500 hectares of irreplaceable #jarrah forest in #WesternAustralia. These forests have already been mined for 60 years, further expansion will threaten the survival of these incredible ecosystems.

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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · Aug 12

The Fingerboards Mine Was Rejected in 2021 — Let’s Keep It That Way!

💚 It’s time for Gippsland to come together once more to protect Country, water, farms, and communities.
✍️ Take action
www.geg.org.au/mineral-sand...

#GunaiKurnaiCountry #MineFreeGlenaladale #StopGCM #StopKalbar

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Save Tyers/Boola Boola Trees @sacredkingfisher.bsky.social · Aug 7

Thanks Lyndall. We agree in total, but we have legislation in Victoria that says FFMV must do planned burns as part of fire mitigation. It's $$$ for the contractors and workers alike and all the science doesn't seem to change that.

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Save Tyers/Boola Boola Trees @sacredkingfisher.bsky.social · Aug 6

This is a snapshot of an area in the Boola Boola State Forest on #gunaikurnaicountry that FFMV has on the list to burn in 2025. An area of damp, wet forest along a creek with abundant biodiversity. How is this even allowed?

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Aug 5

I'll be talking rewilding with Cormac Hamil at Belfast's Féile an Phobail at 7.30 tomorrow evening (Wednesday the 6th).

I've always found Belfast audiences especially engaged when it comes to rewilding, so I'm expecting this to be another lively, highly stimulating discussion!

Join us if you can!!

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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · Aug 6

"More than 300 species of Australian native mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians use tree hollows. But suitable hollows take time to form – often hundreds of years."

theconversation.com/5-ingenious-...?

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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · Aug 6

There are still tickets available for the @warburton_environment launch of FOREST COUNTRY at Cameo Belgrave!

➡ events.humanitix.com/forest-count...

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Save Tyers/Boola Boola Trees @sacredkingfisher.bsky.social · Aug 6

Always lovely to see the first Nodding Greenhood Orchids for the season. 🙂 Victoria Australia. #Gunaikurnai country

Nodding greenhood orchids in the forest floor

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · Aug 5

Funded #PhD scholarship on the ecology of the eastern horseshoe bat and its sensitivity to the impacts of fire at Western Sydney Univeristy.

Link: www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/... #IBRC2025

www.westernsydney.edu.au

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Doctors for The Environment Australia @docsenvaus.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our statement on Gaza.

DEA Statement on Gaza:

Doctors for the Environment Australia is appalled by the indefensible use of starvation, attacks on healthcare and humanitarian aid workers, and the destruction of health facilities, as weapons of war by the Israeli government in Gaza.

As well as the enormous harm caused to the health and wellbeing of current and future generations in Gaza, this war is also creating significant climate and environmental damage, political instability and distraction from other pressing geo-political issues, which threatens the health and wellbeing of us all.

DEA calls for an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza and the restoration of independent UN-led humanitarian aid, including safe food, water and sanitation, medical supplies, shelter and fuel. We call on the Israeli government to abide by its obligations under international law. We call on Hamas to release the remaining hostages. Finally we call on the Australian government to use all means within its power, bilaterally and internationally, to bring this conflict to an end.

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · Aug 4

Sydneys Koalas say they are not out of the woods yet as the NSW Government gazettes their NP.

Hear more from native animal defenders MP’s & #climate folk on coal too tomorrow outside NSW Parliament. Also 🎶 🧶👵 10.30-12.30 pm www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Will a new national park protect Sydney’s chlamydia-free koalas?

The protection comes as the state pushes ahead with the construction of 73,000 homes on the Cumberland Plain, but koala corridors and road crossings are lagging development.

www.smh.com.au

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