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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 4d

Grasshopper today while weeding the remnant urban bushland

Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 4d

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?

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, campaign to require fossil fuel companies to contribute so much more to STEM education, and contribute so much more to Environmental protection, that it becomes no longer viable for fossil fuel companies to engage in activities damaging to the environment

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 4d

"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."

Paul Meek @paulmeekperth.bsky.social · 10d

An important and very well-written piece.

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

Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 4d

"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"

Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 9d

'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...

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

Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 4d

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...

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 5d

Being educated. So far I've learnt that "There are no randomised controlled trials of parachutes"

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 5d

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?

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 5d

Reminded me of a Roger McGough poem "I am land,.... But I am not yours, ... I will sit for your landscape paintings, Pose for your cameras. For your songs and poems be a source of inspiration, But I am not yours .."

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 27d

That the Noongar Settlement is Australia’s first treaty was recognised at the time. Deputy Western Australian Opposition Leader Roger Cook agreed, explaining in Parliament that, ‘by its very nature, the Noongar agreement is in fact a classic treaty’ 19 November 2015

Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 28d

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...

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · 28d

"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...

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · Aug 17

India Day parade in Freo today. Scottish bagpipes and Indian bagpipes

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · Aug 16

Love this vid of wind turbines rising

Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · Aug 16

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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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · Aug 16

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

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · Aug 15

Make your submission now to protect the Northern Jarrah forests

Dr Courtney Babb @courtneywbabb.bsky.social · Aug 15

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...

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

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · Aug 15

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...

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · Aug 14

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/

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Lowlandsbeach @lowlandsbeach.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · Aug 13

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