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Naomi aka Tattooed_Mummy · @Tattooed_mummy

1019 followers · 540 posts · Server wandering.shop

One hungry koala named Claude devours thousands of plants at nursery.
🐨 Claude was caught when he gorged so many eucalypt plants in one night he ended up too full to move.

Claude has been caught red-handed chewing his way through seedlings worth £3,000 at a nursery in #Australia.
#BeMoreClaude #news #koala
https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/06/claude-koala-eaten-plants-nursery-new-south-wales-australia-19459444/

#australia #bemoreclaude #news #koala

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Bin Chicken 🗑𓅠 · @BinChicken

303 followers · 2130 posts · Server rants.au

ABC News - Claude the koala eats thousands of nursery seedlings intended for NSW wildlife corridor

Claude the koala eats thousands of nursery seedlings intended for NSW wildlife corridor
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-05/koala-eats-nursery-seedlings-intended-for-wildlife-corridor/102814920

That's one hungry crafty koala!

#Australia #Koala

#australia #koala

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SeaFury 🦜 🌧️ · @Fury

1645 followers · 1776 posts · Server mastodon.au

@joannaholman 😬😂😂😂 my spirit animal #koala on an eating rampage

#koala

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Chalkwhitehands · @andrewplord

151 followers · 2170 posts · Server mas.to

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We have two very large gum trees in our front yard, and every so often, they are visited by the local koala.

The first time you are woken at three in the morning by a koala call is not something you forget.

#koala #animalsofmastodon

#animalsofmastodon #koala

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen

151 followers · 639 posts · Server mastodon.au

ABC News - Gold Coast City Council introduces new laws to help protect endangered koalas from dogs

Council introduces laws to help protect endangered koalas from dogs

"Dog owners living in parts of the Gold Coast must now follow strict rules or face fines under tough laws designed to keep koalas safe...New laws in a Queensland city mean people who live in designated koala habitat area must prevent their dogs from attacking the animals, by providing a range of options so the marsupials can enter and escape."

"Each year, probably about 100 koalas get taken into animal hospitals … due to dog attacks, around about 75 per cent of them die — so it's a major issue."

"The proposed new laws have been designed to help protect koalas by ensuring dog owners in designated koala areas provide koala-friendly backyards"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-26/gold-coast-city-council-new-laws-koala-habitat-dog-owners/102778360
#pets #dogs #fences #PetsIndoors #Bellingen #council #endangered #koala #wildlife #conservation #biodiversity

#pets #dogs #fences #petsindoors #bellingen #council #endangered #koala #wildlife #conservation #biodiversity

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ZДP0ЖFCΞ2 · @Zap0xfce2

3 followers · 60 posts · Server troet.cafe

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WTF Koala... Im Zauberwald Shooter mit einer sehr dicht hereinblickenden Elfenkoalafee 🤣 #Koala #sweet #shooter

#shooter #sweet #koala

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen

150 followers · 632 posts · Server mastodon.au

NSW environment protection laws unlikely to succeed without major overhaul, damning review finds
"A scathing review of NSW environment laws warns half of the species under threat in the state are on course to become extinct within the next 100 years.. Biodiversity is not being conserved."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/24/nsw-environment-protection-laws-unlikely-to-succeed-without-major-overhaul-damning-review-finds
#NSW #biodiversity #law #EnvironmentalManagement #conservation #failure #Koala #extractivism #NativeForest #logging #SaveTuckersNob #extinction makers

#nsw #biodiversity #environmentalmanagement #conservation #failure #koala #extinction #law #extractivism #nativeforest #logging #savetuckersnob

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen

135 followers · 585 posts · Server mastodon.au

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Make a killing on nature

Ever wondered how much money a single koala might be worth?
"At the moment, the price for the koala credit is about $400."
"A credit is the compensation a developer would need to pay in New South Wales for killing a koala's habitat — known as a "biodiversity offset"."

"Traded biodiversity 'credits' are key to Labor's environmental plans, but critics are not convinced. In New South Wales, a koala "species credit" can be bought for several hundred dollars."

"And there is no hard-and-fast commitment to stopping that native forest logging [nor] even a commitment to stopping the rampant land clearing that's happening in New South Wales and Queensland."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-10/labor-environmental-biodiversity-credits-investment-critics/101804974
#market #valuation #nature #ThreatenedSpecies #biodiversity #extinction #koala #NSW #logging #SaveTuckersNob #BellingenLogging

#market #valuation #nature #threatenedspecies #biodiversity #extinction #koala #nsw #logging #savetuckersnob #bellingenlogging

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Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic

46708 followers · 44437 posts · Server mamot.fr

Some "open AI" is much more open than the industry dominating offerings. There's #EleutherAI, a donor-supported nonprofit whose model comes with documentation and code, licensed #Apache2. There are also some smaller academic offerings: #Vicuna (UCSD/CMU/Berkeley); #Koala (Berkeley) and #Alpaca (Stanford).

These are indeed more open (though Alpaca - which ran on a laptop - had to be withdrawn because it "hallucinated" so profusely).

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#eleutherai #apache2 #vicuna #koala #alpaca

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen

119 followers · 579 posts · Server mastodon.au

New research shows: "Alarmingly, climate change is making bushfires more frequent."
Logging and 'thinning' Bellingen does too.

"We excluded deliberate burns such as hazard reduction (or prescribed) burns lit by fire authorities. We also excluded places that had been logged, because they’re known to be at a high risk of severe fire – and so including them would have skewed the results."

"Clearly, we must seek to limit the number of wildfires. An obvious response is to take more strident steps to tackle climate change. But even if humanity meets this huge global challenge, it will be a long time before we see demonstrable changes in climate conditions."

"More immediate options include managing vegetation to reduce flammability. For example, activities such as logging and thinning can make forests more flammable, so such practices should be halted in these vulnerable ecosystems."

"Greater efforts are needed to conserve biodiversity that is sensitive to fire, and to conserve ecosystems at risk of collapse. We must also embrace new technologies to detect wildfires as soon as they ignite, and suppress them as quickly as possible."

https://theconversation.com/yes-climate-change-is-bringing-bushfires-more-often-but-some-ecosystems-in-australia-are-suffering-the-most-211683

Logging elevated the probability of high-severity fire in the 2019–20 Australian forest fires
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01717-y

What environmental and climatic factors influence multidecadal fire frequency?
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4610

#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #Gleniffer #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala #SaveTuckersNob #bushfires #biodiversity #conservation

#biodiversity #climate #fossilfuels #fire #risks #water #bellingen #gleniffer #gumbaynggirr #midnorthcoast #logging #bellingenlogging #tuckersnobsf #gknp #clearfelling #koala #savetuckersnob #bushfires #conservation

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The Dinosaur Dave · @TheDinosaurDave

769 followers · 1361 posts · Server sauropods.win

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Here, we see the giant extinct #Kangaroo (red and tan) found in #Queensland #Australia. Its along side a 1.8m tall person holding at #Koala and #wedgetailed #eagle. There's also the previous record holder #Procoptodon (dark tan) on the other side.
The third image is the display at the #Lego store #Brickresales, where I've added a baby to the build. Lastly a close up of the pair jumping.

#kangaroo #queensland #australia #koala #wedgetailed #Eagle #procoptodon #lego #brickresales

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen

117 followers · 573 posts · Server mastodon.au

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Bellingen - Tuckers Nob proposed logging/ clear felling Information Meeting

To the community of Tuckers Nob State Forest and any residents concerned by proposed Industrial Logging of Compartments 26/27 you are invited to a meeting by Friends of Tuckers Nob at

Gleniffer Hall
Thursday 17 of August at 6 pm

#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #catchment #RosesRd #GlenifferRd #trucks #traffic #noise #dust #Gleniffer #meeting #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #woodchips #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala