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Illegal coal mining in koala habitat?

"A mining company has been accused of destroying koala habitat and illegally mining coal at a site in Queensland, without government approval. About 47 hectares of koala habitat has been cleared near Vitrinite's Vulcan Mine in the Bowen basin, about 150 kilometres south-west of Mackay, to make way for an open cut coal pit."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/koala-habitat-cleared-without-federal-approval/104414272
#koalas #Biodiversity #law #breaches #FossilFuel #coal #mining #ThreatenedSpecies #ExtinctionCrisis #ClimateBreakdown

'A symbol of our nation’:
Waratah among 20 more species added to Australia’s threatened wildlife list

"Twenty more plants and animals, including a type of waratah, have been added to Australia’s list of threatened wildlife, bringing the total number of endangered species and ecosystems to almost 2,250."

"The Australian Conservation Foundation ... the expanding threatened species list showed the national nature laws were “powerless to stop Australian plants and animals being wilfully destroyed”."

"Albanese said this week the government would consider watering down the EPA proposal in a bid to secure the Coalition’s support."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/sep/04/australian-threatened-wildlife-list-waratah-leaf-tailed-gecko-added
#extinction #biodiversity #wildlife #flora #governance #Australia #EndangeredSpecies #ThreatenedSpecies #environment #laws

"Between 2000 and 2022, NSW logged approximately 435,000 ha of native forest and woodland, all of which overlapped with the distributions of at least one threatened forest-dependent taxon."

"While logging in NSW has degraded 435,000 ha of native forest across 143 threatened taxa distributions, logging is still legal under current legislation."
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https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.13185
#biodiversity #ShiftingBaselines #ThreatenedSpecies #NSWLogging #FCNSW #LoggingIndustry #deforestation #degradation #harm #fires #roads #SettlerSociety #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #ExtinctionCrisis #EPBCAct #EUDR

Indigenous-led action by Bundjalung knowledge-holders for collaborative management of Country

"Globally, many Indigenous people want to help protect their traditional lands and waters, drawing on knowledge stretching back millenia. Indigenous people have an obligation to look after species and habitats that are culturally important to them."

"Indigenous Australians are ready to sit at decision-making tables to improve the management of Country. They intimately understand our precious environment – and their contribution could be transformative."
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https://theconversation.com/indigenous-australians-want-a-seat-at-the-table-when-it-comes-to-conservation-heres-how-we-might-get-there-235954
#ecology #conservation #biodiversity #Bundjalung #IndigenousKnowledge #WesternManagement #koalas #DecisionMaking #Country #trauma #IPLCs #ThreatenedSpecies

Australian biodiversity conservation and 'fighting the government.'

"A rare legal win for an ecologist over a violent confrontation with NSW loggers exposed years of intimidation from corporate forestry representatives and law enforcement ."

"In environmental science circles, state surveillance and persecution of an ecologist whose findings refute or debunk state land management practices surprises no one. Last year, the International Science Council, a body representing more than 250 organisations, summarised that “the findings of environmental scientists … have long triggered censorship, intimidation, harassment and even violence when these challenge economic interests, political agendas, or ideologies”. It reported that scientists “have been physically attacked, wrongfully detained, and killed for their research and advocacy … threats and attacks are widespread in virtually all fields examining human impact on the environment”.

"A 2021 joint university study of Australian environmental scientists found more than half employed in industry or government “are routinely constrained in communicating scientific evidence on threatened species, mining, logging and other threats to the environment”. In some cases, “scientists self-censor information for fear of damaging their careers, losing funding or being misrepresented in the media. In others, senior managers or ministers’ officers prevented researchers from speaking truthfully on scientific matters...In all logged states, time spent fighting the government has overtaken the fieldwork time of ecologists and forest researchers."
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https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/june/katherine-wilson/combative-nature#mtr
#NSWForestry #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #breaches #violence #GumbainggirCountry #activism #ecology #conservation #science #researchers #Koalas #ThreatenedSpecies #extractivism #mining #logging #defamation #surveillance #CivilDisobedience #CoffsHarbour #Gondwana #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ExtinctionCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #democracy #governance #Australia

Australia's roads are "killing corridors" for biodiversity
Mobility design for extinction records

"Appin Road is known as Australia's 'killing corridor' because of the large number of endangered koalas killed on the stretch. Increased traffic on south-west Sydney's Appin Road has resulted in 32 of the endangered marsupials being killed on the notorious stretch since July 2022 – roughly half of all deaths in the district over the same period. Wildlife advocates have long referred to it as Australia's "killing corridor".
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/developer-responds-as-aussie-road-upgrade-near-killing-corridor-labelled-pretty-horrific-030233495.html

Koala in the gutter
In Bellingen, we reported about the widening of Gleniffer road to aid tourism and the timber extraction industry. Once a quiet thoroughfare, Tuckers Nob SF is now logged and clear-felled in large parts. Vehicles are enticed to speed though the once remnant forests where koalas had their home. Recently one disoriented koala was viewed in the gutter. It seems a matter of time before the speeding vehicles will knock down the last homeless marsupials.
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Monopolising and overusing residential roads for the purpose of industrial extraction.
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111005620715386309
#koalas #roads #koala #ThreatenedSpecies #ExclusionFencing #Sydney
#GlenifferRoad #cars #LoggingIndustry #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BiodiversityCrisis #MobilityDesign #Australia #extinction makers

First the thylacine, then the koala, then the kookaburra...

"The tree hollows kookaburras need to breed can take a hundred years to develop. Every forest patch felled means hollows are lost. Over the past 200 years, nearly 50% of our forest cover has been felled. Urban development all along Australia’s east coast has continued."

The “guuguubarra” laughed for 16.3 million years. "That once-ubiquitous call will be heard no more."

"If species such as kookaburras and koalas are disappearing, then the threatened species have no hope."
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https://theconversation.com/why-the-kookaburras-iconic-laugh-is-at-risk-of-being-silenced-208181
#birds #nature #ThreatenedSpecies #LandClearing #LoggingImpacts #FossilFuels #sprawl #extinction makers

No new extinctions in Australia?
Australia’s new environment laws are being drafted behind closed doors
"Australia’s extinction rate is one of the worst in the world. About 100 of Australia’s flora and fauna species have been wiped out since colonisation, and there are now 1,900 threatened species at greater risk of extinction."
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https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/03/19/australia-new-environment-legislation-secret-tanya-plibersek/
#EPBC #law #biodiversity #SamuelReview #ThreatenedSpecies #NaturePositive #extinction

"Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions
have risen by 18% since 2000. Despite small declines in the previous four years, emissions increased again in 2023, mostly due to air travel rebounding after COVID-19."

"Our emissions per person are the tenth-highest in the world and more than three times those of the average global citizen. The main reasons are our coal-fired power stations, inefficient road vehicles and large cattle herd."

Threatened species’ declines continued
"The index showed an unrelenting decline of about 3% in the abundance of Australia’s threatened bird, mammal and plant species each year. This amounts to an overall decline of 61% from 2000 to 2020."
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https://theconversation.com/on-a-climate-rollercoaster-how-australias-environment-fared-in-the-worlds-hottest-year-225268
#climate #FossilFuels #cattle #MobilityDesign #pollution #ThreatenedSpecies #extinction #cars

End native forest logging in NSW!

"Native forest logging ended in Victoria on January 1. State-owned logging company VicForests will cease to exist from June 30 this year."

"VicForests' management of community forestry, including the harvesting of wind-thrown timber, ended on February 5, with the organisation citing the "risk of litigation" and "the cost it would burden the taxpayer with" as the reason for bringing its original June end date forward.
State-owned logging business VicForests, which has previously been found to have breached threatened species laws, will cease to exist from June 30 this year."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/state-owned-logging-company-vicforests-wind-up-date-revealed/103580736
#FCNSW #NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #litigation #law #subsidies #ThreatenedSpecies #koalas #SaveTuckersnob #biodiversity #climate

New Australian environment laws would not stop widespread deforestation, organisations say

"Three groups familiar with draft conservation laws say they do not go far enough and may allow political influence on development decisions."

"Plibersek said about 90% of Australian timber came from plantations but the government was “not talking about banning native forest logging altogether...We’re talking about making sure that we are careful and thoughtful about the timber industry that we have in Australia."

The "national state of the environment report ... found Australia’s environment was in poor and deteriorating health, with at least 19 ecosystems showing signs of collapse or near collapse."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/22/new-australian-environment-laws-would-not-stop-widespread-deforestation-organisations-say
#Law #conservation #deforestation #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #ThreatenedSpecies #collapse