Communities are frustrated by the lack of state or federal action to tackle the ‘out of control’ Indian myna – an aggressive introduced bird species that competes with native wildlife. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

"There's no bigger threat to food security than climate change and the decline of natural systems. Improving nature's capacity to continue providing essential ecosystem services like pollination, fresh water and a stable climate is good for food security." www.theland.com.au/story/928188...

ACF’s citizen scientist investigation program uncovers thousands of hectares of potentially illegally bulldozed forest in Queensland and NSW. Our interventions have also managed to stop active landclearing operations in some locations. au.news.yahoo.com/alarm-bells-...

Australia’s big four banks are enabling deforestation, threatening our wildlife and our climate. That's why we're partnering with @ausconservation.bsky.social to change that! 🌳 Find out more here: https://www.six-invest.com.au/campaigns/banks-are-funding-deforestation

Congrats to the winner of the "environment" category photography awards held by Australia's largest fossil fuel industry lobby group

Scientists say the looming El Nino will be amplified by human-made climate conditions. #climatechange www.theage.com.au/environment/...

Former Labor ministers and unionists call on the PM to reconsider his backing of the risky, dangerous, costly AUKUS pact. ☢️ #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Gas damages the climate and the local environment. We urge Environment Minister Murray Watt to call in this project so its impacts can be properly assessed under Australian law. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The volunteers fighting deforestation from their phones. www.upstart.net.au/the-voluntee...

Australia's biggest ever defence spend and growing nuclear risk deserves some overdue genuine scrutiny. Thanks to #APSF for holding a spotlight to the secretive, second hand and second rate #AUKUS plan aukuspublicinquiry.netlify.app @ausconservation.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au

Peter Garrett, former ACF president (and he played in a band too...), will lead a community-based independent inquiry into AUKUS. Proper scrutiny has not yet been applied to the $368bn defence pact. ☢️ #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Ongoing land clearing in the Great Barrier Reef catchment is damaging the unique World Heritage listed icon. That's why ACF and four other national environment groups have written to the UN about it. au.news.yahoo.com/urgent-un-pl...

Queensland's deputy premier defends his decision to allow a private school to clear koala habitat for new sport ovals. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

Our new report sounding the alarm on the frenzied rollout of AI data centres in Australia and the enormous pressure they place on our environment. We're calling for an urgent moratorium on new data centres until we have strong protections. act.gp/EnergyVampires @ketanjoshi.co @greenpeace.org

Ratings agency Fitch warns about Australia's rapacious AI data centre power consumption. www.themandarin.com.au/313841-ratin...

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026" New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

526 new trees will be planted by an elite Brisbane private school to offset clearing part of a koala corridor for a new pool, ovals, and boarding rooms. Koala experts fear the species will be locally extinct by the time the new trees reach maturity. au.news.yahoo.com/elite-privat...

ECNT launches legal action against federal environment minister Murray Watt, arguing his decision not to assess plans to clear nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savannah in the NT, was unlawful. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

For 44 years, Australia has subsidised diesel use. Yes, it is time to stop. #auspol theconversation.com/for-44-years...

We understand this means international law, including the ICJ’s advisory opinion on states’ obligations on climate change, is relevant to the legality of Minister Watt’s decisions about the NW Shelf extension. #auspol @lisacox.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A UN special rapporteur has been granted leave by the Federal Court to intervene in two challenges to Environment Minister Murray Watt’s approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf expansion project. Story on SMH blog. www.smh.com.au/national/aus...

BREAKING: In an Australian first, the Federal Court has accepted the application by a UN Special Rapporteur to make submissions in ACF’s legal challenges to the extension of Woodside’s NW Shelf gas hub. www.acf.org.au/news/un-spec...

The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to welcome the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of States in respect of climate change news.un.org/en/story/202...

Industry and Science Minister Tim Ayres says new coal and gas projects are not incompatible with Australia’s net zero ambitions... 🧐 #auspol www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/925064...

Powerful piece about Tuvalu's struggle with rising sea levels. #climatechange #Pacific www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

If Cloud Carrier wants to build its big data centre it should be compelled to build the renewables and water recycling infrastructure to service it. Data centres must not be allowed to derail Australia’s clean energy transition. #auspol @reneweconomy.com.au reneweconomy.com.au/protests-cal...

14km The weather was gorgeous, and by the end I was as tired as the motionless ragged female karri moth I spotted resting near the peppies. I'm fundraising for @ausconservation.bsky.social to donate go to australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray see my blog at open.substack.com/pub/lowlands...

I took lots of photos of rainbows on our walk today, and I was coincidentally wearing my 1980s rainbow scarf.. To read more you can go to my substack blog open.substack.com/pub/lowlands... I'm fundraising for @ausconservation.bsky.social to donate go to australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray

“It's been clear for quite some time that the Coalition hasn’t found itself able to adopt a constructive role when it comes to reforming the EPBC Act.” #auspol au.news.yahoo.com/senators-off...

Alcoa’s strip-mining of WA’s jarrah forest is under further investigation after its “deliberate repeat breach” of environment laws that destroyed habitat for protected species – including black cockatoos, quokkas and numbats. By @petemilne.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Circular walk , or rather elongated loop, to West Cape Howe hut and back, admiring the dioecious clematis open.substack.com/pub/lowlands... Im fund raising for @ausconservation.bsky.social to donate go to australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray

A real ‘intergenerational equity’ budget would address our unceasing environmental decline. By @tdneale.bsky.social @theconversation.com #auspol #budget2026 theconversation.com/a-real-inter...

Go the "lobbyists" for the koalas! 🐨https://www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in/2026/05/13/lobbyists-rally-against-private-school-plans-to-clear-koala-habitat

The federal budget contains at least seven times more spending on initiatives that damage nature and the climate than it allocates to climate and nature protection. #budget2026 #auspol www.acf.org.au/news/at-leas...

People and nature will pay the price if Woodside exploits the gas at Browse. Exported gas comes back to Australia as heatwaves, bushfires, floods and coral bleaching. Leave it in the ground and under the sea floor. Tap the sun and wind instead. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/gas-pro...

Despite the company's latest PR push, Woodside’s Browse proposal is an economic and environmental disaster that should be stopped in its tracks. www.acf.org.au/news/woodsid...

Tuart buds are distinctive, some call them mushroom shaped, some say they are shaped like icecream cones. I'm fund raising for @ausconservation.bsky.social to donate australiasbiggestbushwalk.org.au/s-murray open.substack.com/pub/lowlands...

Water flows to parched New South Wales wetlands where an urgent rescue mission to save dying wildlife unfolded are a step closer to resuming after legislation passed the state parliament’s upper house.

Yarrala, a waterhole in Western Australia's West Pilbara where Robe River Kuruma women once gave birth, has dried out and filled with red pindan earth, with Traditional Owners blaming Rio Tinto's groundwater extraction near its iron ore operations. nit.com.au/07-05-2026/2...

The reservation scheme must be an exit ramp for Australia’s reliance on gas and “a tool for a managed gas exit, not a lifeline for more drilling.” #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A new gas drilling project approved for Victoria’s Otway basin will harm the marine environment and make the path to a safe climate harder. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

So, gas companies will be forced to set aside 20% of export volumes for domestic use under a reservation scheme designed to shore up supplies and bring down prices for households and businesses on the east coast... #auspol (1/3) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The federal government is expected to announce further details on the design of its planned east coast gas reservation scheme later this afternoon. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Global attention on the vulnerability of food supply chains has inspired a paddock-to-plate revival for farmers and shoppers. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

The parliamentary inquiry into the taxation of Australia's gas exports is set to release its final report today. #auspol #gastax #taxgas au.news.yahoo.com/not-going-aw...

Almost 6 years to the day since Rio Tinto sparked global outrage by blowing up 46,000-yo rock shelters at Juukan Gorge as part of iron ore mining in WA’s Pilbara, the company has come under fire from traditional owners over water management in the area. www.theaustralian.com.au/business/min...

Federal budget 2026 is under a week away. Here are five things the government should spend money on to protect nature and the climate – and five moves that would save a heap of public money. #auspol #budget2026 www.acf.org.au/news/budget-...

"If you can't get emissions down, you're not dealing with climate change." @billhare.bsky.social @climateanalytics.org www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Emissions of methane from Australian coalmines are more than double official government estimates reported to the UN, according to a new International Energy Agency report. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As now proposed, the legal test for consistency with the standard will be met if a developer merely confirms they complied with some principles and followed certain processes. There’s no requirement for these processes to deliver outcomes and objectives. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...