Essential. Ecosystems. Great infographic from UN Biodiversity (UNEP)

What a malicious and small-minded act by the Finocchiaro government to scrap funding for the Environment Centre NT and the Arid Lands Environment Centre. ECNT and ALEC are the Northern Territory’s peak environment organisations. www.ecnt.org.au/forms/shares...

The duopoly is content to destroy our most vital asset, a healthy and biodiverse environment. theconversation.com/labors-dumpi... If you want a safe and productive future we vote soon, and luckily we have preferential voting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bley...

The environment is deteriorating, rapidly, we'll all be affected. theconversation.com/existential-.... The LNP AND Labor have failed to deliver environmental law reform theconversation.com/labors-dumpi.... There's a federal election soon. No vote is wasted with preferential voting. Vote wisely!

This isn’t just a missed opportunity; it’s a full-on capitulation to the forces wrecking our planet. Labor is now on the same page as the environment-wrecking Liberals. What’s left? A track record of empty promises and a future for koalas, forests, and the climate that looks grim.

As an actual environmental lawyer, today was a sad day. After caving in the mining and logging lobby, Labor and Liberal have just voted together to kill the government’s own nature laws.

“Years of warnings...ignored or kept secret. Promises made, but not delivered...Laws that don’t work to protect the environment, or smooth the way for sensible development. All against the backdrop of...environmental destruction..It’s time to change that.” - @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social 2022

Indian sandalwood properties in the NT sold to melon company Rombola Family Farms www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...?

The fact that most people take the word “Amazon” to mean “place to buy stuff” rather than “dying cradle of life on Earth” tells Me your species is not worth saving.

Just mind-blowing that this is allowed to happen: 161 golden bandicoots (a vulnerable species) killed in a single year at Chevron's Barrow Island facility. (Read the rest of the thread to see how the projects carbon emissions are similarly horrific)

‘When Albanese threw out the EPA, he didn’t just throw his minister under a bus. He threw the whole damn country under the same bus.’ Cracking @JennaPrice.bsky.social column! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol

A shameful legacy for all responsible for this debacle: “Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog” www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

40 million dead mangrove trees in remote northern Australia, releasing massive amounts of stored “blue” carbon. How can climate-sensitive ecosystems be a “nature-based solution” to rising temperatures, longer droughts, and more intense weather events? More: smartwatermagazine.com/blogs/norman...

Woylies are keystone species - mutually symbiotic with Australian sandalwood (also a keystone species … for Woylies, Boodies, Stick-nest Rats …) All are #ThreatenedSpecies.

Captured State. Vested Interests 1 : Nature 0 Screenshot via @docsamantha.bsky.social

The prime minister bowed to mining interests and poor polling in Western Australia with a last-minute decision to upend a deal with the Greens on the Nature Positive laws. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

The national EPA would have put a stop to political interference in decision-making on projects that harmed the environment. The irony? The deal was shot down at the eleventh hour by the Prime Minister at the behest of the WA mining industry. Shame.

Federal parliament is done and dusted for the year 😳 The Prime Minister has squandered an opportunity to give Australians hope ahead of the next election when it comes to protecting nature. We came so close to getting a deal to secure an independent environmental regulator.

RIP the ‘enviroment’ … …. and editorial standards at The Worst Australian newspaper.

The WA state Labor Party and national Labor Party are as pathetic at protecting the environment as the corrrupt coalition that preceded them www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Love me some frantic spinning from the PM’s office. No it wasn’t me, doing the WA premier’s bidding, it was the damn traitor!! www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

FFS Fatima Payman: selling out Australia’s natural environment to money-hungry mining companies.

IUCN press release: shorturl.at/JXsvd

>47,000 tree species were recently added to the IUCN Red List, with 35% assessed as threatened. There's still another ~26,000 to assess, ~1/3 of which remain undescribed, but great to see plants getting more #conservation attention🌿🌳🦤🌍 📷 Antarctic Beech (VU), Tullawallal / Lamington NP, QLD, Aus

We've written extensively about "fossil fuel hegemony" in global climate politics but it is particularly well articulated in Australia where both major political parties are wholly owned subsidiaries of the coal and gas industries!: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

No one will be surprised to see the WA gas lobby,mining industry and logging industry try to scupper Env leg. What is shocking is that the PM did their bidding. Vote 1 Woodside and cut out middle man. Aust is a #NatureNegative petro state with a puppet at helm. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Quite remarkable. Not an opinion, but a demonstrable fact: the prime minister has rejected a policy his government promised for the good of the country in the name of short-term parochial politics in a state captured by vested interests. bsky.app/profile/adam...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... pathetic...

“Australia has the highest rate of mammalian extinction in the world, it is the only developed nation declared a deforestation hotspot and there are more than 2,200 species listed by the Commonwealth as threatened with extinction” au.news.yahoo.com/deal-to-prot...

Trees are each their own little worlds, teeming with all sorts of microbes, animals and other plants as well. Lose a tree, and this entire world dies too. A shocking 1/3rd of all tree species are currently teetering on the edge of existence... 🌱 🧪 🌏 #NatureWriting #wildlife

The WA state Labor Party and national Labor Party are as pathetic at protecting the environment as the corrrupt coalition that preceded them www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

The evidence is unequivocal: Australian sandalwood IS a Threatened Species. From my PhD: Prolific or precarious: a review of the status of Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum [R.Br.] A.DC., Santalaceae) www.publish.csiro.au/RJ/RJ21017

Have fond memories of our time in Switzerland 🇨🇭 Wrote a blog: Jura Mountain Rambling 🥾 🥾 richardmclellan.blogspot.com/2012/01/livi...

Hat-tip to the Swiss voters 🇨🇭

If you’re all about conservation speak the truth, loudly and frequently rsv.org.au/truth-for-bi...

From @earthlyeducation.bsky.social

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Funding available The Gunduwa Regional Conservation Association welcomes applications for funding to conduct biodiversity conservation & sustainability projects in the Gunduwa region. For more details, visit the GRCA website, and download the GRCA 2024–30 Prospectus: gunduwa.org.au/gunduwa-pros...

"Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor The rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows" – Leonard Cohen

A recent 'good news' story about biodiversity in the Gunduwa region: "Research trip uncovers 24 new species on Barnabinmah Station near Yalgoo, WA" www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01...

'Possum magic at Charles Darwin Reserve' Another recent good news story about biodiversity in the Gunduwa region: "Relocated brushtail possum caught on camera signals landscape-scale conservation success" www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...

Just some “happy” #wildoz babies for your feed

The Gunduwa region is in the transitional zone between the Southwest Australia Biodiversity Hotspot and the more semi-arid interior of the continent. But it's a hotspot in itself, within the centre of endemism for acacias, and home for a plethora of rare & endangered species. #BadimiaCountry

Fabulous to see more chuditch being translocated into the Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary by one of our long-standing partners: the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. #BadimiaCountry

We're live. Fabulous to be back among friends at Bluesky. For those not familiar with Gunduwa, we're a community-based biodiversity conservation & sustainability initiative in mid-western Australia (#BadimiaCountry). Please feel free to check us out on our website: gunduwa.org.au