Official version of our latest paper is out on Reproductive investment in native and invasive populations of Pittosporum undulatum👇. Here we are collecting some of the data. I lost my car keys that day. Ben found them when revisiting the site. #Trees #InviasiveSpecies #FieldWork

#Birdoftheday Brown Thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla) Boola Boola #Gunaikurnaicountry

This healthy little fella at Munghorn Gap Nature Reserve near Mudgee, NSW, knows of 23 threatened wildlife species that need our help! 480 acres of their habitat, 100 metres from the Gap, will be destroyed if a coal mine extension goes ahead. Stop Yancoal here: www.lockthegate.org.au/object_to_mo...

Once again a reminder to fill up those bird baths and receptacles for all the critters over the coming week as temperatures soar. 🥵☀️🐦🐸🐝

Answer m: Habitat loss, habitat loss, habitat loss. A small but growing problem of lower leaf protein as a direct result of rising CO2. We warned about this 30 years ago www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Eastern Yellow Robin #BirdOfTheDay theme #Solitude

My buddy and bat scientist @arummel.bsky.social is studying how bat wings move in flight. Scientists often look at the 2d shapes of bat wings but her work shows it’s critical to consider the 3d shape while in flight. #SICB2026

"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project." Read that again: **116** times. Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding?? www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

It was so hot yesterday that one of the two ringtail possums left the box. Please leave water out for all wildlife. They will need it for the next few days! 🥵

The Coloniality of Planting with Ros Gray & Shela Sheikh

Eastern Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus ssp. aculeatus), Tyers/Boola Boola #Gunaikurnaicountry

Demure little superb parrot 💚

Oil & gas steel platforms like skyscrapers in our Bass Strait oceans since ‘60s, decommissioned. Exxon Mobil & Woodside remove your junk. We don’t want your fake ‘artificial reefs’ with arsenic & mercury ‘traces’ but our clean seabed back. Thanks & go.

Happy New Year to all the creatures and those that protect them. 🐝

Relentless "improvement" of the countryside leaves no space for nature. But ever more people are now helping the wild return, through *rewilding*. No matter who you are or where you live, you too have a part to play in the fight. There is no better New Year's resolution.

Collecting data to pressure governments to protect the Gondwanaland ecosystem for future generations. knittingnannas.org/2025/12/29/s...

Wildflowers from the Boola Boola State Forest. Fringed Lillies and Blue Pincushion.

This morning I spoke about my favourite topic, for @deakinuniversity.bsky.social's Health & Social Development School Day. Yes, many Aussie mammals are well-known, but not nearly as many as you might think. There's much to learn. We must do a far better job of conserving these extraordinary animals!

@natesanderson.bsky.social :)

"Prescribed burning resets the clock, giving a few short years with an open understorey. But the void is soon filled by flammable fast-growing shrubs." theconversation.com/in-1939-a-ro...

This is a clearly written, evidenced-based article by two highly respected academics. So it probably won't be read by anyone at Forest Fire Management Victoria.

Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing Ken Henry www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #epbc

Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?

Some photos of flora and fauna from a recent visit to nature reserves at South Gippsland, traditional country of the Bunurong and Gunaikurnai people.

Plantation forestry is an ecocidal abomination across the entire planet, not just Ireland. share.google/xRB80UAPYR5t...

Brigitte Duclos & I discuss why 24 hour cat curfews & containment are good for cats, wildlife, & human health, in cities & rural Australia, including on farms. Interview starts ~ 1:44:26 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... @deakinuniversity.bsky.social @biodivcouncil.bsky.social @ausmammals.bsky.social

Living sculpture. Notice also the pool of water held in the crook of this ancient oak on the shores of Kenmare River (bay).

Look, what happened to Gough Whitlam was terrible, he was a visionary. But, I'm far more concerned about how terrible @australianlabor.bsky.social are TODAY, especially their pathetic environmental law reform package. Let's talk about the future, shall we? biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/ge...

Diuris laxiflora - the Bee Orchid A relatively small orchid, the Bee orchid is endemic to Western Australia and flowers between September and early November. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #nature #bloomscrolling

This is deplorable. Koalas suffer and ecosystems are trashed, because the Victorian government won't take sufficient proactive measures to prevent koala starvation. The issue has been known for months, and such crises are predictable and preventable. www.theage.com.au/environment/...

Your regular reminder that by throwing away nature, we throw away *everything*.

After a 4y delay, @vicgovernment.bsky.social has released a disappointing response to the recommendations of an Expert Advisory Panel which reviewed the 1975 Wildlife Act, rejecting many critical recommendations from the Panel. See our assessment: biodiversitycouncil....

Australia's much loved wildlife and places sorely need greater care and legal protection. Our latest for @aunz.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/labor-is-clo... With good friends and colleagues, @drphilmccormack.bsky.social & @yungenchee.bsky.social.

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation. And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

“Baudin’s or bauxite – we can’t have both” It’s a stark warning … but Alcoa’s proposed expansions to its bauxite mining in WA’s jarrah forests will be catastrophic for the endangered Baudin’s black cockatoo. #wildoz #ausbirds #ozplants #bauxite #conservation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#openaccess New #LiDAR methods are revealing the influence of land use change and climate change on forest height, as Patrick Norman and colleagues write

A stunning Mallee out in Southern cross #Eucalyptus burracoppinensis, named after the town Burracoppineast of Merredin. Gotta love an endemic Euc! And one with such stunning flowers and distinctive fruit!

It is utterly shameful that the Western Australian government hasn’t committed to fully rehabilitating this site, the most contaminated mine site in the Southern Hemisphere, Australia’s Chernobyl. Please share & demand this injustice is corrected. #CleanUpWittenoom www.cleanupwittenoom.com/donate

Australia is home to approx 24,000 species of native plants 🌿 This #BiodiversityMonth, we’re celebrating the beauty and diversity of native flora — from orchids to mistletoes. Our guide books are your companions for exploring them: www.publish.csiro.au/PlantsAndFun...

This #nationalthreatenedspecies day, please enjoy some fabulous #australianmammal images submitted by our talented and dedicated Committee.. #numbat - @ellaloeffler.bsky.social #fattaileddunnart - @drdunnart.bsky.social #leadbeaterspossum - Arabella Eyre #spottedtailedquoll - Jemma Cripps

Protecting darkness and minimising light pollution is important for human and wildlife health. Please consider signing and sharing this petition. Petition EN7346 - National Legislation for Light Pollution Regulation and Dark Sky Preservation www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... Closes 19 September.

Our week: Nannas face charges for locking on to logging machinery in a NSW forest and we’ve begun an investigation on climate change misinformation and disinformation for a submission to a Senate Committee. How’s ur retirement going? 🧶 knittingnannas.org/2025/08/19/n...

Jarrah forests (Eucalyptus marginata) are unique to southwest Western Australia. They grow nowhere else. 🌿🌱🌳 Alcoa’s proposed #bauxite mine expansion threatens to destroy this unique #ecosystem whilst also releasing 1.3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases. It’s a lose, lose scenario #wildoz

The Fingerboards Mine Was Rejected in 2021 — Let’s Keep It That Way! 💚 It’s time for Gippsland to come together once more to protect Country, water, farms, and communities. ✍️ Take action www.geg.org.au/mineral-sand... #GunaiKurnaiCountry #MineFreeGlenaladale #StopGCM #StopKalbar

This is a snapshot of an area in the Boola Boola State Forest on #gunaikurnaicountry that FFMV has on the list to burn in 2025. An area of damp, wet forest along a creek with abundant biodiversity. How is this even allowed?

I'll be talking rewilding with Cormac Hamil at Belfast's Féile an Phobail at 7.30 tomorrow evening (Wednesday the 6th). I've always found Belfast audiences especially engaged when it comes to rewilding, so I'm expecting this to be another lively, highly stimulating discussion! Join us if you can!!

"More than 300 species of Australian native mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians use tree hollows. But suitable hollows take time to form – often hundreds of years." theconversation.com/5-ingenious-...?

There are still tickets available for the @warburton_environment launch of FOREST COUNTRY at Cameo Belgrave! ➡ events.humanitix.com/forest-count...

Always lovely to see the first Nodding Greenhood Orchids for the season. 🙂 Victoria Australia. #Gunaikurnai country