Before another old tree falls, let us remember that someone already lives there. Home is precious—whether it belongs to us, a bird, a squirrel, an owl, or a doe and her fawn.

🦇The Grey-headed Flying Foxes are back at the Victory Park camp in Traralgon, Victoria, Aus. They are vital nocturnal pollinators that feed on nectar and pollen from flowering Red Box (E. polyanthemos), carrying genetic material across large distances as they forage.

Australia could be forced to deal with a new stream of hazardous material if the deadly H5 strain of avian influenza spreads to native birds. au.news.yahoo.com/aussies-face...

".. the small Quebec town ... has become the first municipality in Canada to officially recognize trees as living beings with inherent rights ... declaring that trees deserve protection, including the right to life, natural growth, integrity, and regeneration" www.facebook.com/groups/29053...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Open Letter to Ed Smelt. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Certain mosquitoes, including the white-kneed mosquito (Aedes alboannulatus), act as pollinators for various Australian greenhood orchids. These terrestrial orchids such as the Nodding Greenhood (Pterostylis nutans), rely on a complex, deceptive pollination mechanism. Boola Boola/Tyers

Late 19th-century farm abandonment in the Northeast US led to the greatest forest recovery in the history of the world, as trees returned naturally. The result is that the region is 3 or 4 degrees cooler than it would otherwise be, mitigating climate breakdown. insideclimatenews.org/news/0407202...

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Rotund

Post-burn survey of a Planned Burn in the Boola Boola State Forest showing one of the many hollow bearing trees that has collapsed. These burns are causing the destruction of large old trees and wildlife, but do nothing to stop the severity of any future bushfires.

It's hard to get everything into an 800-word piece. One thing that got left on the editing floor is duck hunting. It reduces waterbird numbers, stresses birds which compromises their immune function and health, and brings waterbirds, hunters and hunting dogs into close proximity. Very bad idea.

"Short-beaked echidnas are currently divided into five subspecies by biologists, mostly based on where they live, but a new genetic analysis that looked at mitochondrial DNA... suggests they are basically all very genetically similar." This research is #OpenAccess in #AusZoologist Read more 👇

Wow! 200,000km² of ocean declared entirely off-limits to fishing in some of the most biodiverse waters on earth 🌏 That's a win 🙌 #oceanoptimism oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

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...

Woolworths has restocked and discounted a product so dangerous that Australia’s pesticides regulator has recommended it be pulled from shelves next year. SGARs are back for a limited time. au.news.yahoo.com/woolworths-q...

It's Autumn, and Forest Fire Management's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of torching our forests. Every dot here shows a current or imminent burn. Such burns are bad news for Greater Gliders. Their den trees often collapse after a burn, leaving them homeless. Or worse.

#GunaikurnaiCountry is wild on the river tonight! Turn the sound up, you need to hear this! It's the tree friends off on the night shift

I'd ask the name of the forest ecologist who signs off on all these destructive planned burns, but I suspect FFMV don't have one.

One of the worst decisions ever made for Adelaide It’s an ‘on the edge of the desert’ town & needs every bit of habitat & shade it can get I grew up there Cutting down a single old tree should frankly be thought about very very VERY closely Once gone, never to return

BREAKING: Minister for Environment finally secures budget funding for Environment portfolio Unfortunately for the environment it's $500M for "unlocking major projects and helping proponents get a faster yes or a faster no" Recall, NONE of the 6 National Environmental Standards have been finalised

Citizen #scientists #knittingnannas #bobbrownfoundation & @wildernessaus.bsky.social bring you this gorgeous (but endangered) Greater Glider & bubby emerging from their den at dusk. 🧵1/2

Murray Watt is at again as the Min for Enviro Destruction. Not satisfied with the piss weak laws passed last year the draft MNES standards are also piss weak. We should not be surprised. biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/four-ma...

#Dailyglimmer Breathtakingly and hauntingly beautiful! The Wynne prize 2026 winner The Wanambi tree by Gaypalani Wanambi.

A sudden influx of protected birds at Victoria's Tower Lake has led to a ban on duck shooting on its waters. au.news.yahoo.com/controversia...

There are nationwide calls for Victoria's Allan Labor Government to close Tower Hill to duck shooters after 275 protected birds settled on its waters. It has responded by doubling down on its support for duck season. au.news.yahoo.com/rare-sight-o...

The VIC Gov has approved destruction of rare snow gums on the summit of Mt Macedon so people can get a view of Melbourne. Take action here and help to #SaveMacedonSnowGums www.melbournefoe.org.au/save_mt_mace...

👇 thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

More grist for the mill. Important implications for the controversies of fire management, logging, and native forest conservation iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Study finds Tasmanian native forest logging increases potential for more severe bushfires www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Once again: this is exactly what LLMs and chatbots are designed for. This is them doing their designed function. Mass production of meaningless text so someone who wants to do harm has cheap access to the aesthetics of justification www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hollow bearing trees are essential for wildlife, but are very vulnerable to the planned burns the Victorian government promotes. Some 25% of such trees reached by fire in these burns collapse. This is from unceded Wurundjeri country last week.

Heart shaped stump. Gunaikurnai country. 💚

“Decades of conscious neglect by successive LNP and Labor governments, state and federal, mean that Victoria’s biodiversity is overall in a parlous state.” - me "The Age sought comment from (Premier) Allan...She did not respond." www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Wildlife at Cape Conran, Victoria. Gunaikurnai country.

This is a disgrace. Planned Burn in Marlo State Forest. The most depressing part were all the trees that had been felled in the name of 'safety'. Not pleasant for regular and Easter visitors. Do better Forest Fire Management Victoria, Steve Dimopoulos, MP Jacinta Allan

Local council rules that at 500 years old “Old Spotty” gum tree can look after itself while its surrounding forest is logged. #Shoalhaven Time to get out your gum boots Nannas!

Contractor that cut back ancient oak in London park identified

“Rigs-to-Reefs” is a program that allows wealthy oil corporations to abandon their platforms in the ocean instead of removing them. Marine life will inevitably attach themselves to these underwater structures, but they're really just hunks of rusting junk that don’t belong. bit.ly/3Ob45DB

Is Australia's reformed EPBC Act shaping up to be as broken as the old EPBC Act❓ Final drafts of National Environmental Standards on: 1️⃣Matters of National Environment Significance & 2️⃣Environmental Offsets will be out for public comment in Apr Example Standards "full of vague, non-binding language"

Fuel shocks show why electric freight can’t wait www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...

Some lizards. Morwell National Park.

TLDR? The @albomp.bsky.social government is being loose with the truth about the environment and conservation, again. "This important report...mistakes promises for progress – is not worthy of a nation with both the means and the obligation to lead." theconversation.com/australia-cl...

If there was ever a moment for Australia’s shift to renewables and EVs, this is it www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"If the public must pay their fair share to see the Twelve Apostles, why don’t multinational fossil fuel companies have to pay more to drill for gas in the waters around them?” writes Louise Morris, Advocate at The Australia Institute. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4ukJ0H0

Excellent! Well overdue! I hope it becomes a permanent ban Australia-wide, except for under very extreme and specific circumstances, as judged and implemented by genuine experts in pest and wildlife management www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

ACF FOI docs show tt Rachel Parry (then DepSec DCCEEW) & KylieCoulhan (WA EnvAssmt) exchanged ~200 txts w WoodCIDE re approval conditions “Rachel–we are about to send you our response which identifies 3 items of factual correctness which if modified would then constitute a document we can accept”

At this point, the Environment Department (and new EPA) exists to make recommendations that can be overruled as a political signal to industry.

Woodside is looking for a new CEO, so we thought we'd lend them a hand 🙌

“Our research has demonstrated that the loss of these forests, the mature trees used by these birds, cannot be offset or mitigated,” said Kate Millar, CEO of @birdlifeoz.bsky.social. “Once the forests are gone, these much-loved birds will be gone.” Read more: https://theaus.in/4tZhi2i

There’s been a bright moon the last two nights but we’ve still had a bit of variety in the moth visitors to our Perth Hills garden, including: Garrha pudica Eublemma inconspicua Thallarcha eremicola Earias huegeliana #teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist #nature

For all you #birders out there (including me) - 'Birdbrain' benefits: new research shows that seasoned birders had denser tissue in parts of the brain tied to working memory, spatial awareness & object recognition. #BirdBrain Link for more information: www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...