Analysis of Vegetation Management Regulatory Frameworks in Australia

"EDO’s Analysis of Vegetation Management Regulatory Frameworks in Australia examines land clearing laws across all Australia jurisdictions, highlighting key issues and areas for improvement."

"In 2021, over 100 countries, including Australia, pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030 through the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use (Glasgow Declaration). The Glasgow Declaration includes six key commitments, including to conserve forests and accelerate their restoration; and to reverse forest loss and degradation while ensuring robust policies and systems are in place to accelerate the transition to an economy that is resilient and advances forest, sustainable land use, biodiversity and climate goals."

"WWF-Australia commissioned EDO to undertake an analysis of legal frameworks across Australia that regulate land clearing, to see how they match up against the Glasgow Declaration."

"The scorecard shows New South Wales and Queensland sit at the bottom of the leaderboard, with South Australia placing first."

https://www.edo.org.au/2023/08/29/vegetation-management-regulatory-frameworks-analysis/
#EDO #Australia #NSW #NSWlogging #ForestryCorporation #NativeForests #BellingLogging #ClearFelling #degradation #RemnantVegetation #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #koalas #GlasgowDeclaration #biodiversity #climate

Invasive species such as feral cats are the number-one driver of biodiversity loss in Australia, UN report shows

"Australia is the mammal extinction capital of the world and cats have played a role in two-thirds of mammal extinctions over the last 200 years"

"Every year, cats kill 2 billion reptiles, birds and mammals in Australia. That's almost 6 million every night."

"Australia has close to 3,000 invasive alien species estimated to cost Australia approximately $25 billion every year in losses to agriculture and management costs," CSIRO chief research scientist for biosecurity Andy Sheppard said."

"The report "found 45 per cent of all countries did not invest in the management of biological invasions and only 17 per cent had national laws or regulations addressing the problem".

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-05/un-invasive-species-report-biodiversity-loss-australia/102815414
#IPBES #biodiversity #extinction #prevention #degradation #cats #roaming #pets #regulation #200years

The #environmental Kuznets curve in reverse might stand as a general #metaphor: since conditions for accessing cheap and disciplined #labour power tend to be bound up with expanding #BusinessAsUsual, comparatively high #carbon intensity and increased #transport, #capital will shoot its arrows upwards and backwards, towards the summit of #degradation.- Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise Of Steam Power and The Roots Of Global Warming. Verso 2016, page 410.

System degradation - The Darling River

"The suffocation of up to 30 million fish in western NSW has been described by a scientist as a "canary in the coal mine" for a sick river environment. NSW deputy chief scientist Darren Saunders said the fish deaths were symptomatic of a larger problem.

"The fish are a canary in the coal mine"

"What we found is there's a much broader degradation in the ecosystem in the Darling Baarka. But essentially the environment is sick, the fish are essentially an indicator."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-01/menindee-fish-kill-inquiry-findings-darling-river-health/102803676
#DarlingRiver #Menindee #FishKill #river #NSW #ecosystem #degradation #care #coal #climate #extinction makers

Fading forests
The Amazon, the Congo or Australia – it's the same story

"Many ecologists say that the selective logging permitted by the Forest Code is often not sustainable. That’s because the trees that are removed are generally slow-growing species with dense wood, whereas the species that grow back have less-dense wood, so they absorb less carbon in the same space. And few companies follow the requirements for selective logging, such as limiting road construction or the number of trees cut...About 90% of selective logging in the Amazon is estimated as illegal, and therefore doesn’t follow any of these procedures."

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-02599-1/index.html
#forests #logging #roads #degradation #deforestation #CarbonEmissions #climate

Generation restore is collecting seeds to heal the land
Indigenous young people are restoring environment ravaged for generations.

"Generations of land clearing since colonisation has put an ancient ecosystem in southern New South Wales in danger. The ultimate goal is to create an environment suitable for native pines that have been over-harvested. Native trees such as the cypress pine were once prolific in the woodland, but were historically used for homesteads and fencing, which resulted in generations of clearing."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-27/native-seed-harvesting-in-lake-cargelligo/102774546
#GenerationRestoration #ecosystems #NSW #IndigenousPeoples #ColonialLegacies #degradation #Landclearing #grazing #erosion

Offsetting- A cheap illusion of climate action
Forest conservation carbon offsets being significantly overestimated, new study finds
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-08-25/forest-conservation-carbon-offsets-overestimated/102755212
#Offsetting schemes #deforestation #degradation #REDD+ #Climate #Verra #CarbonStandardCredits #forest #offsets #logging #Australia #illusion #ClimateAction

Intergenerational report highlights the threat of a hotter, less productive Australia due to global warming.

"At least 50% of Australia’s sandy coastline, a major drawcard for tourism, is under threat of erosion due to climate change."

https://theconversation.com/intergenerational-report-highlights-the-threat-of-a-hotter-less-productive-australia-due-to-global-warming-212121
#IntergenerationalJustice #climate #HeatExposure #NSW #degradation #coast #erosion #FossilFuel #disasters

Logging the Mid North Coast of NSW in the midst of a biodiversity and climate crisis

The Forestry Corporation is planning to log native forests of Bellingen. This 'panic logging' within the proposed Great Koala National Park. The broad-scale clear-felling will endanger the koala and all of bio-diverse more-than-human systems. It will heat up the climate and increase the fire risks.
The many logging trucks and heavy fossil fuel machinery will be a hazard for all of Bellingen and the surrounding areas. Noise, dust and pollution will lessen all of our lives.
There was no consultation process with affected 'stakeholders' or the people of Bellingen. This is undemocratic.

Friends of Tucker’s Nob:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/250189120465227/
https://twitter.com/BelloActivists
https://www.facebook.com/BellingenEnvironmentCentre/

#Bellingen #NSW #logging #BellingenLogging #FossilFuel #pollution #BiodiversityLoss #GKNP #degradation #FossilFuel #pollution #BiodiversityLoss #GKNP #degradation #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob

Yes, brand damage for scenic Bellingen, surrounds and Australia
Immerse yourself in one of the many logging sites at the Mid North Coast of NSW.
#Bellingen #NSW #tourism #beautification #logging #SaveTuckersNob #FossilFuel #climate #pollution #BiodiversityLoss #wildlife #GKNP #NativeForests #GreatKoalaNationalPark #degradation

Carbon offset scheme performing badly
“Deep in the Australian outback, there are billions of dollars being made from carbon farming. It's called Human Induced Regeneration (HIR) and while it's Australia's most popular method of carbon farming, it's also controversial."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-18/experts-criticise-carbon-offset-scheme-730/102736696
Land #degradation #pastoralists #overgrazing #LandClearing #pollution #emissions #carbon #offset

#PalisadesNuclearPlant has a long history of problems. And #Holtec a long list of violations. They were made for each other [sarc]

#Palisades #nuclear plant gets $150 million in #Michigan budget

By Sheri McWhirter, Jul. 03, 2023

"Michigan lawmakers included $150 million toward the effort to restart the Palisades nuclear plant as part of a record $81.7 billion state budget passed last week.

"State officials contributed the millions in taxpayer dollars toward #Holtec International’s effort to get the nuclear plant upgraded and fired back up to provide 800 megawatts of carbon-free, base load power as the energy sector transitions away from fossil fuels. If it happens, it would be the first nuclear plant nationwide to return to generating power after being decommissioned.

"The plant was closed last year when its fuel ran out and the owner sold the facility to Holtec. The new owner has now twice applied for federal money to help get the plant operational again.

"The Biden administration has a $6 billion fund within the U.S. Department of Energy intended to preserve the U.S. nuclear reactor fleet and energy sector jobs.

"[...] Power generation at nuclear plants does not generate greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change, like burning fossil fuels does. However, some #environmental advocates remain concerned about ecological #degradation from needed #uranium #mining and #radiation risk from #ToxicWaste nuclear plants produce."

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2023/07/palisades-nuclear-plant-gets-150-million-in-michigan-budget.html

#UraniumMining #NuclearPlants #NuclearWaste

Loss of terrestrial biodiversity in Australia: Magnitude, causation, and response

"Australia’s biota is species rich, with high rates of endemism. This natural legacy has rapidly diminished since European colonization. Extinction rates, already far exceeding the global average for mammals, are predicted to escalate across all taxa, and ecosystems are collapsing. Severe degradation of Australia’s natural world began ~250 years ago, when European colonization began removing Indigenous peoples from the land they had managed for >60,000 years."

"The authors “focus here on biodiversity loss since European colonization, particularly the contemporary processes shaping the status of biodiversity and the conservation response... More than 7.7 million hectares of the habitat of threatened species was cleared between 2000 and 2017"

“Australians have much to learn from an increased respect for, and application of, Indigenous ways of knowing. Embedding human social, spiritual, and general well-being objectives as an emergent property of healthy ecosystems is a core principle of the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg7870

Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
https://www.cbd.int/gbf/

#StateForest #BellingenLogging #GKNP #SettlerCulture #Australians #degradation #logging #EcosystemDegradation #IndigenousKnowledge #koalas #biodiversity #extinction makers

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/world/americas/nigerian-migrants-brazil.html

#OilRich, what is it good for: But for many Nigerians, #unemployment is rampant, helping to fuels a major #exodus of “very #desperate people either fleeing #conflict or fleeing the #degradation of #livingconditions due to #climatechange or due to other social factors”

#Kleptocracy #RenewablesAreDeflationary

Sydney’s drinking water quality under threat from climate crisis, report finds

“Climate change is predicted to drive more frequent and extreme natural disasters in coming years. This will threaten the resilience or capacity of the catchment to maintain essential ecosystem services such as the provision of adequate, good quality source water.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/09/sydneys-drinking-water-quality-under-threat-from-climate-crisis-report-finds
#Sydney #sewage #sprawl #climate #bushfires #pollution #habitat #degradation #wetlands #erosion #mining #water

« Le plus difficile, c’est ce #flicage permanent » : à la #Macif, des #salariés craquent

https://basta.media/le-plus-difficile-c-est-ce-flicage-permanent-a-la-macif-les-salaries-craquent

> Depuis plusieurs années, des #salariées de la #MACIF alertent sur la #dégradation de leurs #conditions de #travail. Entre la #pression, la #surveillance quotidienne et le #rendement imposé, beaucoup se mettent en #arrêt faute d'angoisse au travail.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/08/06/amazon-drugs-coca-cocaine-deforestation-environment-biodiversity-climate-change-criminal-brazil-peru-colombia-bolivia-lula-logging/

The #crime under the #Amazon’s canopy is increasingly difficult to ignore—not least because nearly all #deforestation and #degradation in the Amazon is estimated to be the result of #illegal #land and #resource grabs, mainly involving #logging, #livestock grazing, #agricultural production, and #mining.
#climatechange #trees #rightsofnature #ForestsAreNotRenewable

https://www.oneearth.org/planetarian-diet/

According to the EAT-Lancet Commission, a scientific initiative tasked with defining targets for #sustainable #food production, global food production—especially factory-farmed #redmeat— is one of the most significant drivers of #environmental #degradation, #climateinstability, and #biodiversity loss.

#PlanetaryBoundaries #EatYourYard #afluenza

Soil is likely home to 59% of life.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2304663120
#soil #biodiversity #degradation

Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism,
Jarrod Hore
"Hore draws together personal, scientific, commercial and state-based collections to help us understand settler colonialism anew, demonstrating that at their core, settlers saw themselves as belonging in new, wild and untouched landscapes."

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/general-history-prize/2023-shortlisted-visions-nature-how-landscape-photography-shaped
#photography #book #history #IndigenousLands #landscapes #Environment #Degradation #nature