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Free speech is pretty easy . . . one's words should not be detrimental to the freedom or safety of another and, in Nelson Mandela's words, "The purpose of freedom is to create it for others". #auspol #speech #freespeech #NelsonMandela

#nature #climate #auspol

Fruits of the White Beech Tree on Lady Carrington Drive, Royal NP. They're awaiting the Brown Cuckoo Doves, Wonga Pigeons, Green Catbirds and Satin Bowerbirds who will enjoy them. Any which they break up and leave will be eaten by the Yellow-throated Scrubwrens who make this patch their home #birds

Happy International Day for Biodiversity! Acting locally means personal actions, let's consider our choices and their impact on the earth: what we consume, supply chains, what we eat, how we travel, who we vote for. You and I are part of this. www.cbd.int/biodiversity... #BiodiversityDay #nature

When we hear a bird sing, it's a moment of connection between two minds. In our cities, full of white noise, we learn to tune out. My next book (out soon) will lead the reader into tuning in: learning to listen through the layers of sound in our natural environments; learning who is saying what.

I have long held to the sensibility that our understanding or experience of #consciousness and #sentience may not be the only experience of these things . . . Broadening our vision in these respects is the doorway to deeper, more profound, immersive and meaningful experiences in #nature

I feel that people who wave Australian flags on ANZAC Day knowingly or not cross the line from honouring the fallen into supporting the patriarchal nationalist constructs which are used to deceive young people into the idea that imperialist wars for wealth and power are somehow righteous.

The goal of effective communication is mutual understanding, not necessarily winning the argument. Argument and insults don't change minds, they close minds. Conversations which open awareness to arrive at better conclusions begin by offering dignity and creating grounds for mutual respect . . . 1/2

In the year 66788 the constellations will all be unrecognisable and the Southern Cross no more In the year 66788 Australia and New Guinea will be 4.5 kilometres further north from their current position . . . 1/5

I always have a little chuckle when I'm standing in a beautiful forest and someone comes up to me and says "Have you seen anything good today?"

Another fine mixed seed and sweet potato damper. So quick and easy to make and so tasty. Self raising flour, salt, water, seeds and puréed sweet potato. There’s endless variations you can do of this simple wholesome bread.

Done. My wholefood vegan kitchen now has 4 months supply which I've stocked up over 6 weeks. Grains, beans, nuts, seeds spices, polenta, semolina, flours, dals, dried fruit, canned goods, home canned fruit. I'm a scratch cook and also know how to wildcraft greens and roots. I'm ready/prep'd.

Who Gives a Crap keeps kicking goals . . .

Mark Zuckerberg's new 87.5 metre yacht with helipad and four massive diesel engines. This isn't wealth or a healthy aspiration, this is a terrible illness. I actually cried for him when I saw this.

"Growth" is shrinking. It's shrinking the living world. It's shrinking our lives. It's shrinking our futures, it's shrinking our possibilities and it's shrinking our humanity. We must explore economies and systems based on a planet where there's space for all species, for need, not "wants".

As a field ornithologist and nature educator who has banded hundreds of birds I would like to say we need to stop this. We need to stop opening them up and putting GPS trackers in them. What more do good hearted, right headed people need to know to conserve them and be in awe and wonder at them?

When I consider all I've seen over the last 60 of my almost 68 years, we need to own all that's about to drop on us. We could have chosen respect for all species, dignity for every human, a thriving Earth and systems and lives and know-how which supported all this. We chose lies and greed instead.

It requires around .75 of a tonnes of coal to make the steel for the average car in China. In China they create around 2 tonnes of CO2 to manufacture 1 tonne of steel. In 2025 alone China made 34.53 million cars and at least 4 million trucks each year. We're not going to tech our way out of this.

@albomp.bsky.social should not cut the fuel excise. The price is currently right for the supply situation. If the price is cut, antisocial types will rush out with jerry cans and deplete our supply.

here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of the knowledge of the demonism in the world

I've been plant based since 1974. Here's my supplements: • B12, daily or very regularly • D3, I get adequate sun most of the year but still supplement • Iodine, Iodised salt or three sheets of Nori every day or two • Blackstrap molasses, 1 tablespoon daily. I have the same advice for meat eaters.

Whenever I tell anyone I'm moving onto a gorgeous sub tropical property in the hills just off the coast with stunning rainforest full of birds and wildlife, where we're building a permaculture farm and food forest and I'm building a tiny house they say, "This is my dream too" . . . Later this year.

We're not headed for civilisational collapse. We are simply experiencing the outcome of bad choices and behaviour based on false beliefs. Human supremacy, the blind belief that humans are above all other species and the only species deserving our moral consideration has brought us . . . 1/9

We're all in shock about rising prices and oil scarcity but not our conscious decisions to hold onto faulty beliefs and subsequent habits and behaviours driving the extinction crisis, the climate catastrophe, the breaking of 7 of 9 planetary boundaries, deforestation . . . who we vote for.

We can address all our overshoot/planetary boundary problems, most of our climate problems and human development problems by adopting plant based eating. All plants have protein - All animals have feelings - All humans have choices.

Happy Autumn Equinox world . . . (Larrapinta Trail, Kwartatuma, Central Australia)

In 1974 I turned 16. Nixon resigned. Whitlam won again. Ali won a boxing match and I recognised that animal agriculture and industrial ocean fishing was not only a fundamental evil premised on denial of agency of all species but would eventually destroy the earth. I went plant based. I was right.

I was pretty ashamed that our leader of the Opposition, Angus Taylor used the visit of the EU President to parliament to spout his christianism and white supremacy but I guess we still labour under the idea that in a democracy the most embarrassingly ignorant among us must always be heard from too.

When pondering the claims of technological solutions for our organisational failures we have to ask: How's that been working out for us so far?

The root cause of all our organisational failures on this finite planet which we share with over 2 million species is Human Exceptionalism: the belief that we are above all other species and deserving of special moral consideration. Our obsession with status and distrust of the other doesn't help.

This may change your world. Birds process sound and vision around 10 times more rapidly than humans do. Here, I have a 2.3 second clip of an Eastern Whipbird call, followed by the same clip slowed 10x. Perhaps it's time to recognise that different intelligences are no less relevant than ours. #Birds

We come from the land. All which sustains us comes from the land. We return to the land. Given these truths we must surely interrogate the notion that land is "property" and a "resource" rather than something we belong to and should live upon with gratitude with wisdom. Also, happy World Frog Day!

I found this gorgeous Diamond Python on the trail last week. It appears they’ve recently dined on a Ringtail Possum. #nature #herping #reptiles #python

Bad Lorikeets! Here's what can happen if you leave a window open in Sydney. After helping themselves to some honey I had put out for my mum, they perched on my iMac for the morning no doubt waiting for seconds . . . cheeky buggers. #birds #birding #nature #badlorikeets

This gorgeous little Eastern Yellow Robin almost landed on me this morning . . . #birds #birding #naturelovers #nature

The "Pork Chop Crew", one of many trios of young male lyrebirds in Royal National Park who spend their days joyously dashing around the rainforest floor, into trees or onto rock ledges before floating back to the ground all the while practicing their song, dance & mimicry, on endless repeat. #birds

Take a few seconds to enjoy the beautiful rainforest sounds of the Hacking River Valley and a Superb Lyrebird as he forages. He's ably assisted by a Yellow-throated Scrubwren who are comensal to lyrebirds and are also excellent mimics. #birds #birding #nature #naturelovers #lyrebirds

Even here on Sydney's southern beaches we seem to have a colony of these Southern Leaf-tailed Geckos, as they turn up in our garden and on our walls now and again. #nature #herping #reptiles #geckos

Green Catbirds are members of the bowerbird clade. They were going off on call and response this morning in Royal National Park. #birds #birding #nature #naturelovers

Ruddy Turnstones at Boat Harbour (Sydney) on a very windy beach (hence the camera shake). The Ruddy Turnstone's bill is the "Swiss Army Knife" of the bird world. It's many uses makes them a success on beaches, rocky headlands and mud flats. They're joined by a random Red-necked Stint. #birding

Superb Lyrebirds in rainforests are often accompanied by this fellow, hopping around and collecting any of small invertebrates which are disturbed in the vigorous leaf raking. This is the Yellow-throated Scrubwren, a comensal of the lyrebird and one of the forest's most fascinating species. #birding

Humans need green spaces as much as every other species. Connecting with nature, receiving its energies and moving with its flows is in our DNA. We must work for more of these everywhere . . . a mandatory part of all urban planning. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Rufous Fantail, a beautiful summer migrant in Sydney forests right now. These chirpy chaps mostly forage in denser vine tangles and shrubbery where they use their fanned tails and wings to disturb small invertebrates. However they will also sally from a perch too. #birding #birds #nature

Shire locals and lovers of The Royal will know what I mean . . . #nature #naturelovers #birding #bushwalking #hiking #Sydney

The four most abundant butterflies on the Uloola Track today were the Common Grass Blue, Australian Painted Lady, Caper White and Varied Swordgrass Brown. Caper Whites often eclose in enormous numbers, sometimes in the millions. I'm hoping their presence is the sign of one of these fabulous events!

Reptiles I often find on the Uloola Track are the Common Scaleyfoot (a legless lizard), Coppertail Skink, Eastern Brown Snake and Jackie Dragon. #nature #reptiles #herping #naturelovers

The Uloola Track is a ridge top trail in Royal National Park which passes through a succession of soil types: sandstone, laterite and shale. Each supports a very different plant community creating a series of ecotones which makes for excellent birding. It's also pretty awesome for reptiles too!