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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · 4d

‘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

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Gabrielle Jackson @gabriellecj.bsky.social · 8d

‘So tiny and so vulnerable’: what chance will one of Australia’s smallest birds have against a rocket launchpad? by @lisacox.bsky.social #birdoftheyear #birds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘So tiny and so vulnerable’: what chance will one of Australia’s smallest birds have against a rocket launchpad?

When South Australia gave the go-ahead for a launch facility to be built at a site that’s home to the endangered southern emu-wren, conservationists were astounded

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · 16d

The federal environment minister has conceded that successive governments acted unlawfully when they failed to create mandatory recovery plans for native species threatened with extinction

Government required to create plan to protect greater glider in major legal win for Wilderness Society

Murray Watt agrees recovery plans for greater glider, ghost bat, lungfish and sandhill dunnart were not made by successive governments

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Sep 7

That figure from the 2023 article includes the existing reserves. It’s stated in the piece you have linked. The commitment for new areas was 176,000 ha and that is also in the piece linked.

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Sep 7

Labor first promised the park in 2015 - 176,000 ha of state forest to be added to existing protected areas. The announcement today was 176,000 ha of state forest to be added to existing protected areas. Total size will be 476,000 ha www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW Labor leader Luke Foley promises to establish koala national park

The Great Koala National Park would cover more than 300,000 hectares on the state’s mid north coast north between Macksville and Woolgoolga

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Minns government has confirmed its long-awaited great koala national park, announcing it will add 176,000 hectares of forest to existing reserves in mid-north New South Wales to create one of the largest national parks in the state and protect more than 12,000 koalas.

NSW locks in great koala national park and brings in immediate ban on logging

Minns government to create one of the largest national parks in the state as forest advocates welcome ‘historic’ victory

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Sep 6

The head of the Western Australian Museum has told staff that burning fossil fuels is something “almost all of us are guilty of in one way or another” in an email defending the institution’s renewed research partnership with Woodside.

WA museum tells staff ‘almost all of us are guilty’ of burning fossil fuels in email defending Woodside partnership

Exclusive: Climate advocates reject CEO’s claim he is ‘not qualified’ to comment on risks of gas firm’s plan to extend production to 2070

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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · Sep 6

Top 5 stories on Guardian Aus this morn are environment and climate related. To mark this occasion, a thread.

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Sep 4

Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show. By @natashamay.bsky.social

Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show

Documents tabled in parliament show NSW agency took four years to publish report and told miners it would be put online ‘quietly’ but EPA says it was released to community earlier

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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · Aug 8

Forest and woodland across an area more than 1,000 times the size of the Sydney CBD was bulldozed in Queensland in 2022-23, newly published figures show
- @lisacox.bsky.social

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Queensland land-clearing figures show state remains ‘deforestation capital of Australia’, conservationists say

Overall clearing was up 3%, with almost half in Great Barrier Reef catchment areas while 21% was remnant woodland, government data shows

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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · Jul 29

Minns government’s environmental integrity condemned as ‘nonexistent’ amid 40% surge in land clearing

- by @lisacox.bsky.social

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Minns government’s environmental integrity condemned as ‘nonexistent’ amid 40% surge in land clearing

Independent MP Jacqui Scruby says she saw ‘fresh koala scratchings on trees just metres from clear-felling’ in parts of proposed Great Koala national park

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Jul 27

In the first three weeks of 2025-26, only 65.2% of services on the main intercity lines were on time. Resigned travellers say they now just expect their train to be late.” I commute on the Central Coast line and keep a diary of all the delays. Glad this is getting some attention.

‘Delays, breakdowns, frustration’: NSW commuters left waiting at the station

In the first three weeks of 2025-26, only 65.2% of services on the main intercity lines were on time. Resigned travellers say they now just expect their train to be late

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Jul 24

Australia warned it could face legal action over ‘wrongful’ fossil fuel actions after landmark climate ruling from world’s top court

Vanuatu climate change minister says ICJ opinion gives Pacific island nations ‘much greater leverage’ in dealing with partners such as Australia

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Jul 24

The New South Wales court of appeal has overturned the approval of the largest coalmine expansion in the state after a community environment group successfully argued the planning commission failed to consider the impact of all of the project’s greenhouse gas emissions.

‘Significant legal breakthrough’ as NSW court blocks state’s largest coal expansion over emissions

Decision is a significant blow for MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coalmine expansion in Muswellbrook in the upper Hunter

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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Australia warned it could face legal action over ‘wrongful’ fossil fuel actions after landmark climate ruling from world’s top court

Vanuatu climate change minister says ICJ opinion gives Pacific island nations ‘much greater leverage’ in dealing with partners such as Australia

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Jul 23

Effects of marine heatwave driving ‘foreseeable’ SA algal bloom could rival black summer fires, scientists warn

As Senate establishes inquiry into the ‘human-mediated disaster’, a report is calling for more long-term action

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Jul 15

In delivering the decision, Justice Michael Wigney noted: “There could be little if any doubt that the Torres Strait Islands and their inhabitants face a bleak future if urgent action is not taken.”

Torres Strait community leaders in ‘deepest pain imaginable’ as federal court dismisses landmark climate case

Class action led by two community leaders argued government had legal duty of care to prevent or deal with damage linked to global heating

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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · Jul 15

Report by @lisacox.bsky.social on the Torres Strait climate case judgment

Federal court dismisses landmark Torres Strait climate case but warns of ‘bleak future’ without urgent action

Class action led by two community leaders argued government had legal duty of care to prevent or deal with damage linked to global heating

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Jul 13

An attempt by the New South Wales government to reintroduce koalas to a forest in the state’s far south has failed after more than half of the moved animals died, including two with signs of septicaemia, and the remaining marsupials were taken into care.

More than half of koalas relocated to NSW forest died in failed government attempt at reintroduction

Exclusive: Translocation and deaths of seven out of 13 koalas in April, with some showing signs of septicaemia, not made public by state government

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Jun 27

Calls for ‘urgent’ investigation into lobbying activities of fracking advocate and gas company

Lidia Thorpe, David Pocock and the Greens demand action after Good Advice and Empire Energy allegedly offered private deals to traditional owners to smooth the way for gas sales

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Jun 25

Off to Nipaluna (Hobart) to present a dingo 🐾 collaboration with dear friend and cartoon-artist legend, @jessharwoodart.bsky.social, at the International Environmental Communication Association’s 18th Biennial Conference on Communication and Environment. #COCE2025

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Lisa Cox @lisacox.bsky.social · Jun 23

Exclusive: Leaked documents claim consulting firm promised private deals, gathered signatures and hired land council members to smooth way for Northern Territory gas sales