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Eika at PIPn - Kaurna Country
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Native plant specialist for the Adelaide region, Australia. Kaurna country.

Provenance Indigenous Plants
I'm waiting for a truck of mulch.
I hope my gardening speed is as fast as my enthusiasm.
September 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I scoured back and forth but couldn't find any friends for this yellow daisy. I'm pretty sure it is Senecio linearifolius.
I found one similar plant but couldn't confirm it.

#provenanceindigenousplants
#ozplants #nativeplantsaustralia #australiannativeplants
#kaurnacountry
September 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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🔎 INSIGHT 🔎

🌱 Secure but flexible: temporary adhesion in mistletoe seedlings - Ornelas & Morales-Saldaña

📝 Insight: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
August 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Photos from the recent Reconciliation Walk, guided by Kaurna Elders Frank Wangutya and Colleen Wanganeen. These engaging Elders generously shared stories, including of the Kaurna school once run by German missionaries at what is now Possum Park / Pirlawadli (Park 1). 📷 @adelaidewriter
June 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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A place for Kaurna people to gather and share culture and stories in Adelaide is a dream come true for elders like 95-year-old Lewis O'Brien.

"It started really probably 30 years ago when the old people got together and they said we should have a centre," Uncle Lewis explained.
'Everyone comes here now': New culture centre a dream come true for Kaurna elder
A new place for Kaurna people to gather and share stories has opened in Port Adelaide, and those involved say they will never forget the reception it has received from the local community.
www.abc.net.au
July 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Big thanks to Kaurna, Narungga and Ngarrindjeri woman, Kelli Owen, for sharing your story on: Transforming Aboriginal kidney health through connection and culture www.croakey.org/transforming...
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#LeadingWomen
HT Women in Public Health
Transforming Aboriginal kidney health through connection and culture: Kelli Owen
Introduction by Croakey Professional Services: When Kaurna, Narungga and Ngarrindjeri woman, Kelli Owen, was asked to speak at a conference about
www.croakey.org
April 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Australia needs its own “moonshot” to galvanise the country’s best minds behind stopping the spread of feral species, a parliamentary roundtable has heard.

Invasives cost the nation around $24.5 billion a year, and efforts to contain them are failing.
au.news.yahoo.com/innovative-m...
Innovative 'moonshot' plan to galvanise Aussies around $24.5 billion problem
It's hoped Australia can attempt the impossible if it galvanises its best minds. Find out more.
au.news.yahoo.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Eutaxia microphylla, small-leaved eutaxia. Plus two Geometridae caterpillars.
August 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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The SA and Federal Governments will trial bubble curtains to protect a section of the giant cuttlefish breeding site in the Upper Spencer Gulf from the algal bloom 🦑

biodiversitycouncil....

#GiantCuttlefish #SpencerGulf #AlgalBloom #MarineConservation #Oceans #Wildlife
August 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Native indigo, Indigofera australis. Repotted in hopes of collecting seed from these flowers.

#nativeplantsaustralia #native #plants
August 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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The Australian Bogong moth may be 1st invertebrate known to be able to use stars to navigate, says OA paper. Experiments indicate the insects use stellar cues, in addition to magnetic sense, to help them fly in the right direction: spklr.io/63328BHGga

🧪 @biologylu.bsky.social @nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Unfortunately the Drop Bear is still a daily threat here.
Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up theonion.com/austral...
August 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Fire size & vegetation productivity shape bird diversity across burned landscapes in the Atlantic Forest 🔥

Suggests that effective measures, such as the implementation of ‘fire-smart management’ practices, are essential to safeguard bird diversity 🐦🌏🧪

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
August 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Global warming impacts the biosphere simultaneously in many different ways. Some impacts, like extreme heat and drought, are obvious and direct. Others, like massive algal blooms that have been hitting Australia, remain largely unseen but wreak just as much havoc on our life support systems. 🌍
light green smudge explodes into an angry, purplish red mass, indicating a high concentration of chlorophyll. It expands and contracts as the weather changes from January to August.

“The bloom pulsates,” & kills

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘We’re trying to call on everybody that we can’: South Australia scrambles to fight its pulsating algal bloom
State considers its options to control Karenia mikimotoi, which has left beaches littered with dead seaweed and sealife
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It gets worse when you realize that the green places are largely deserts and tundras that cannot be farmed.
Two of the few practical answers to the biodiversity crisis are renewable food – which would see half the Earth returned to nature, and a Stewards of the Earth program in which indigenous people and ex-farmers are funded (from defence budgets) to restore natural ecosyst ...
The great dying
The heedless march of man has now laid waste to 60% of the planet’s land surface area, putting humanity’s own future at risk, the latest science reports.
johnmenadue.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Thick stick. 😀
A caterpillar in disguise. 🐛🥸
June 10, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Fancy paper flower on the archway from the TAFE graduation ceremony.
June 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Delivering native Australian plants to a school my volunteer group supports.
June 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Thick stick. 😀
A caterpillar in disguise. 🐛🥸
June 10, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Australia has quite substantial diversity in the ant species found here, with 1,500 described species and possibly 1,000s of undescribed species 🐜
#ausinverts #wildoz
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
There are trillions of them, and they're hard at work across Australia
Australia's native ants do an incredible amount of environmental and agricultural heavy lifting. Here are 10 of our mighty little workers.
www.abc.net.au
May 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Packed to the brim.
Voucher redemption at Woodville today.
#australiannativeplants
#ProvenanceIndigenousPlants
May 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
May 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
May 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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The findings of a new study have important implications for native bee conservation, particularly in urban and agricultural areas.
Most bees nest in the ground. Offering rocks and gravel is a simple way to help them thrive
theconversation.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Support conservation on Heard Island which has been the victim of a U.S. tariff. Why a victim? The only inhabitants are penguins. However, this is a real conservation effort for the penguins and the surrounding area. If you can afford to please help.
Trump just tariffed an island of penguins. Here's how you can buy a pebble and support their 'exports'
The tongue-in-cheek social media campaign is finding a creative way to donate to penguin conservation through the World Wildlife Fund.
www.goodgoodgood.co
April 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM