DNA study shows feral cats killing more reintroduced native species than estimated
"Tests on DNA taken from reintroduced native animals in remote SA shows feral cats are the main culprit in their deaths. Feral cats have been blamed for two-thirds of Australia's mammal extinctions since European settlement."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-22/feral-cats-killing-more-native-species-than-estimated/105197140
#cats #ExtinctionCrisis #roaming #pets #Bellingen #BiodiversityCrisis #conservation
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The great koala - glider national park - logging an environmentally significant area
"The Minns Labor government promised to create a koala national park before the state election more than two years ago, but has not taken a decision on the boundaries and has allowed logging to continue. Between April and July 2024, the surveys detected greater gliders at 82 sites. The government’s analysis estimated the planned park has between 29,693 and 44,211 gliders, with a mean estimate of 36,483."
“...Logging should cease in all state forest areas identified as containing greater gliders.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/17/endangered-greater-gliders-recorded-in-proposed-great-koala-national-park-in-nsw-as-logging-continues
#BiodiversityCrisis #conservation #harm #destruction #NativeForests #koalas #gliders #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #ExtinctionCrisis #governance
Koala 'overabundance' - 700 euthanised , some sterilised
The species is often treated like a “pest”.
"When plantations are harvested, all trees are eventually cut down, forcing koalas to move across roads where they're at risk of being struck by cars, or onto private property where they're attacked by dogs, or into national parks where they're already overabundant...The area surrounding Budj Bim has been systematically logged since the 2019/2020 bushfires, likely leaving thousands of koalas homeless...Koalas don’t understand the difference between native forest and a plantation. It’s food. It’s shelter. Without these two things, they die."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/freak-weather-event-in-australian-national-park-leads-to-estimated-700-dead-koalas-033624408.html
#biodiversity #koalas #habitat #dogs #cars #roads #plantations #LoggingImpacts #ExtinctionCrisis
The Sydney surburban sprawl that’s a death zone for koalas
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-13/the-sydney-surburban-sprawl-that%E2%80%99s-a-death-zone/105169238
#koalas #Biodiversity #sprawl #roads #trauma #cars #RoadTrauma #Sydney #NSW #extinction #ExtinctionCrisis #SettlerSociety #thylacines
The eastern curlews
have “been hammered by habitat destruction up and down the entire flyway for the past 40 years”. Sean Dooley, a senior adviser at BirdLife Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/08/a-high-flying-visitor-the-wondrous-far-eastern-curlew-faces-fresh-threat-in-nt-wetlands-haven
#birds #MigratoryBirds #Darwin #ExtinctionCrisis
Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?
"Over the past decade, more than 550 Australian species have been either newly recognised as at risk of extinction or moved a step closer to being erased from the planet."
"Analysis shows 1,964,200 hectares of koala habitat was cleared between 2012 and 2021 – 81% of that in Queensland."
"Australia tops global rankings for mammal extinction – at least 33 species have died out since European invasion and colonisation – and is number two behind Indonesia for loss of biodiversity. The challenge is not only to stop the loss of habitat but to restore the environment in places it has been lost in 250 years of European-driven clearing."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/07/australia-is-in-an-extinction-crisis-why-isnt-it-an-issue-at-this-election
#biodiversity #ecosystems #loss #nature #wildlife #koalas #care #biosphere #laws #deforestation #extractivism #SettlerSociety #destruction #extinction #pollution #sprawl #housing #governance #ExtinctionCrisis #FossilFuels
#Australia is in an #ExtinctionCrisis – why isn’t it an issue at this #election? | Australian election 2025 | The Guardian
we are living through an #ExtinctionCrisis unlike anything in human history—over a million #species are at risk of disappearing in the coming decades. #ecosystems that have taken millions of years to evolve are unravelling before our eyes, driven by #HabitatDestruction, #climate chaos, #pollution, and endless #extraction. every species lost is a thread pulled from the web of life, and sooner or later, that web collapses.
Brilliant cartoon by @schloriancartoon
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**HERE'S A REAL MEGA POPULAR MUZWOT ETHOS POST ...
"Going anywhere nice this summer?"
It just isn't right at all any longer, it isn't fair and it is grossly selfish and totally irresponsible, irrespective of the ton of glossy ads that try to normalize it still.
Jetting off around the globe for holidays in the age of #ExtinctionCrisis and #climatecatastrophe has LONG Had Its Day and it is something now disgusting, deeply vulgar and shameful
- it is no longer glamorous WHATSOEVER.
#heathrow
Provide habitat and fund wildlife hospitals!
"The WA Wildlife Hospital has seen a 17 per cent year-on-year increase in patient admissions over the past 15 years."
Reasons?
"These include increasing urban sprawl, with suburbs encroaching on natural habitats as the population grows, and attacks from introduced predators such as wandering cats, foxes and dogs."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-20/wa-wildlife-hospital-buckling-under-surging-animal-admissions/104923496
#Biodiversity #wildlife #birds #carers #sprawl #FishingHooks #roads #drivers #IntroducedSpecies #pets #dogs #ExtinctionCrisis #SettlerSociety
Earth has experienced five previous mass extinction events. Humans are working on the sixth.
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“You can stand on coast right now anywhere in Chennai and every few strides, you can see bulge-eyed turtles till the horizon.Over 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles wash ashore in southern India."
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/01/over-1100-dead-olive-ridley-turtles-wash-ashore-in-southern-india/
#marine #turtles #biodiversity #FishingIndustry #fishing #ExtinctionCrisis
just finished reading Venomous Lumpsucker, a mind-warping near future satire on environmental policy. Winner of the 2023 @clarkeaward.bsky.social Ned Beauman is an author whose work I'll be following. #extinctioncrisis #climatecrisis #satire #nearfuture #dystopian #scifi #clifi #ecofiction
Care for the planet
Pay attention to the beautiful tapestry of life to ensure our planet’s enduring stability.
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Listening to the Quiet with Harrison Ford and E.O. Wilson, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06uYTjKwS1E
https://eowilsonfoundation.org
#biodiversity #conservation #wildlife #care #ecology #ExtinctionCrisis
Making gardens for birds and biodiversity,
reducing threats and improving habitat.
1. Secure pets
2. Avoid using insecticides and outside lights
3. Stop poisoning raptors
4. Prevent window strikes
5. Create an inclusive garden
6. Encourage insects
7. Water the birds too
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https://theconversation.com/from-securing-pets-to-building-insect-hotels-here-are-7-ways-to-attract-birds-to-your-garden-247561
#gardens #backyards #Biodiversity #ecosystem #wildlife #birds #insects #pets #cats #dogs #lawns #insecticides #poison #ExtremeHeat #water #ExtinctionCrisis #fauna #flora
HOME UNSETTLED
Settlers are detached from the land and mostly mistake "Little boxes made of ticky tacky" as 'home.' But now
"Climate change is forcing us to rethink our sense of ‘home’ – and what it means to lose it."
Val Plumwood ... "argues that, under capitalism, the idea of personal belonging to a particular place or dwelling is often framed as being more important than many other vital attachments to place, such as connection to land. She uses the term “shadow places” to describe the ecosystems we exclude and exploit – including our forests and waterways – even though they are fundamental to our existence. These places provide essential labour, nourishment and the conditions we need to survive and flourish. For Plumwood, an expanded sense of “home” would encompass the broader ecological context we exist within."
" Indigenous Australian law scholar Irene Watson explains colonisers were already alienated from a sense of connection to land when they came to “Australia”. This disconnection led them to plunder the land, treating it as a commodity rather than a living, complex ecosystem that nurtures and is nurtured by First Nations peoples."
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https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-forcing-us-to-rethink-our-sense-of-home-and-what-it-means-to-lose-it-247234
Malvina Reynolds - Little boxes on the hillside, Full Version with Lyrics >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoXtddNPAM
#Country #IndigenousPeoples #care #displacement #land #privatisation #commodification #LandSpeculation #landlordism #rentierisation #SettlerSociety #suburbia #housing #sprawl #homeplace #ClimateBreakdown #values #australia #NativeForests #plunder #ecosystems #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis #FossilFuels #extractivism #loss #home
