Australia's extinction crisis
#Extinction is a choice

"On the 4 August 2022, the Senate agreed to the committee's recommendation that this inquiry formally known as Australia's faunal #ExtinctionCrisis be re-adopted in the 47th Parliament for inquiry and report by 28 June 2023"

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/ExtinctionCrisis
#Habitat #Destruction #Laws ThreatenedSpecies #EnvironmentalAttitudes #Pets #Dogs #Cats #Wildlife #Conservation #Biodiversity
Image: Seen in #CoffsHarbour

Visions of Nature: How #Landscape #Photography Shaped #Settler #Colonialism, Hore, 2022
"revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of #settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. They rode a wave of interest in #wilderness imagery and made pictures that were hung in settler drawing rooms, perused in albums, projected in theaters, and re-created on vacations. In both the American West and the Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler #belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, a generation of photographers came to associate “#nature” with remoteness, antiquity, and #emptiness, a perspective that disguised the realities of #Indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental #abundance."
https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/events/booktalk/online-book-talk-hore-visions-of-nature/
#Book #EnvironmentalAttitudes #Australia