Environmentalists condemn Australia’s ‘woeful record’ after 48 plants and animals added to threatened species list

“This many species being added to the list in one go is a sign of widespread ecological collapse,” Tim Beshara of the Wilderness Society.

“Australia has a woeful track record when it comes to protecting our unique animals and plants. We are a world leader in sending mammals to extinction – and it is mostly because we keep allowing their homes to be bulldozed, logged and overrun,” Nature campaigner Jess Abrahams

“We need stronger laws to protect these species and significantly more funding to do it with."

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/07/environmentalists-condemn-australias-woeful-record-after-48-plants-and-animals-added-to-threatened-species-list
#Australia #EnvironmentalManagement #sprawl #roads #cats #dogs #deforestation #logging #NSWLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #wildlife #koalas #conservation #care #extinction makers

Stop logging native forests in a climate and biodiversity emergency Pt 2

It is not ok to do industrial logging in a biodiversity crisis.
It is not ok to kill our atmosphere
It is not ok to kill the diversity of life on the planet.

Electrifying heavy-duty vehicles could reduce environmental inequalities
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-electrifying-heavy-duty-vehicles-environmental-inequalities.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01219-0
Camilleri, S.F., et al, Air quality, health and equity implications of electrifying heavy-duty vehicles, Nature Sustainability (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-023-01219-0.

https://www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-change/international-commitments
Australia is party to the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement came into force in 2016. It was a major step forward in international efforts to address climate chang

Climate Change Detection and Attribution?
https://archive.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch9s9-1-2.html

#FossiFuel #machinery #HDVs #trucks #pollution #exposure AirQuality #externalities #OneHealth #NSWLogging #logging #BellingLogging #Bellingen #RosesRoad #GlenifferRoad #Climate #GHG #SaveTuckersNob

I learned about this cool #GNOME feature today, and I thought I'd share it with those who don't know about it yet:

You can, in any app window, press Ctrl+Shift+i to open the #Inspector, a little window for getting #debug and version information, logs, tree views of the UI template, per-widget property information, a text field for adding custom CSS, and a whole bunch more useful stuff!

#logging #GTK #debugging

Killer logging fires might just shorten your life
Increased traffic, dust
Road building machinery powered by fossil fuel
Heavy logging machines spewing fossil fuel exhaust
Repeated forest slash and burn fires with lingering smoke for months and months.
A dryer forest more prone to catch fire and accelerate climate disruption.

"Respiratory experts have called on the EU to lower its regulatory limits for air pollution in line with the World Health Organization (WHO)."

"They added that the impact of the climate emergency and human health had become interlinked and was now “irreversible”. An increase in pollen and other allergens as well as wildfires, dust storms and fossil fuel-based traffic all worsen existing respiratory conditions or can create new ones, the authors wrote in the peer-reviewed paper."

"Air pollution is estimated to have killed 6.7 million people globally in 2019 and 373,000 in Europe, with greenhouse gases and air pollution sharing many of the same sources."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/04/climate-crisis-poses-greatest-risk-to-people-with-respiratory-illnesses-experts-warn
#air #pollution #fires #smoke #logging #NSW #forests #SaveTuckersNob #FossilFuel #traffic #machinery #ForestryCorporation #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark

Stop logging in the planned Great Koala National Park

"Around 14,000 hectares of NSW native forest is logged each year, despite inquiries and scientific reports calling for threatened species habitat to be urgently protected following the immense destruction of the Black Summer Bushfires."

"However, thousands of hectares of koala habitat within the proposed park area could be destroyed while planning for the park is under way—unless the NSW government acts urgently to suspend logging in these areas."

Dear Minister Sharpe,

"Thank you for committing $80 million to establish the Great Koala National Park on the mid-north coast of NSW. As you know, koalas will be extinct in NSW well before 2050 unless there is urgent government intervention to protect koala habitat.....">>>

https://wilderness.good.do/GKNP/2023sharpe/
#logging #NSW #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #climate

Would rare glossy black cockatoos nest in the proposed Great Koala National Park on the NSW Mid North Coast?

Conservationists are celebrating the rare discovery of nests of one of Australia's most-threatened cockatoos.

The bird is one of the most-threatened species of cockatoos in Australia
For the first time in more than 20 years, glossy black cockatoo nests have been discovered on the New South Wales' Mid North Coast.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-03/rare-glossy-black-cockatoo-nests-found-in-northern-nsw/102795868

Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Biliirrgan) listed as vulnerable under federal environmental law
https://glossyblack.org.au/glossy-squad-northern-rivers/

#Nambucca #Bellingen #CoffsHarbour #GumbaynggirrCountry #Biliirrgan #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #logging #vulnerable #birds #conservation

Logging koala habitat in Bellingen
#SaveTuckersNob #NSW #logging #NativeForests #BellingenLogging #biodiversity

DFO's subversion of the letter and intent of the Species at Risk Act urgently needs to be adjudicated in court.

#SpeciesAtRiskAct #Conservation #Law #BullTrout #Logging

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

Senseless killing of endangered gliders highlights the need to S T O P L O G G I N G glider habitat.

The Nature Conservation Council (NCC) of New South Wales provides a toolbox to watch, record and report destruction.

“Everything in this t o o l k i t is entirely legal. It offers concerned citizens with a tangible way they can p r o t e c t t h e f o r e s t s. Over the coming weeks and months, we will be working with groups on the ground to further support people prevent or report breaches illegal logging activity."   

“The strategic use of citizen science was instrumental in the recent decision by the Victorian Government to e n d to native forest l o g g i n g by 2024."
 
T o o l s:
"NCC has been working with local environmentalists and scientists to develop a toolkit to help people from across NSW to monitor, report and stop illegal logging activities." 

"Our Breach Watch website and handbook is designed to support people to survey a forest before it has been logged (both from home and in the field) report future of previous breaches to the EPA. This can lead to measures like ‘exclusion zones’ being implemented to protect critical habitats and species, and fines issues for egregious breached in logging conditions."  
https://www.nature.org.au/senseless_killing_of_endangered_gliders_highlights_the_need_to_stop_logging_glider_habitat

Tool Box:
Breach Watch website 
https://www.breachwatch.org.au/

Identify a forest scheduled for logging
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/natureorg/pages/4186/attachments/original/1693443382/BREACH_WATCH_HANDBOOK-FINAL-2.pdf?1693443382
#activism #ToolBox #logging #StopLogging #NSW #NativeForests #biodiversity #ClimateAction

The Great Koala National Park without any Koalas

"The proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP) on the NSW Mid North Coast between Kempsey, Grafton and Armidale is home to 1 in 5 of the wild Koalas in New South Wales".
An excellent overview by Mark Graham >

https://1earthmedia.com/the-great-koala-national-park-without-any-koalas/
#GKNP #logging #LoggingIndustry #BellingenLogging #Kalang #NambuccaRiver #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #water #biodiversity #extinction makers

Forestry Corporation's logging operations halted in Tallaganda State Forest, glider found dead
"After discovering a dead endangered marsupial, Forestry Corporation NSW (FCNSW) has been issued a stop-work order in a state-owned forest near Canberra".

"EPA investigators discovered a dead southern greater glider beside a logging area within the Tallaganda State Forest. This habitat is ground zero in the race to save this critically threatened species," she said. WWF conservation scientist Kita Ashman"

Stop logging native forests in a climate and biodiversity emergency!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-31/southern-greater-glider-dead-forestry-corporation-logging-halted/102797160
#FCNSW #logging #StopLogging #StopEcocide #TallagandaSF #EndangeredSpecies #conservation #gliders Extinction makers

NSW forestry agency ordered to stop logging after greater glider found dead

The state-owned New South Wales forestry agency has been ordered to immediately stop logging in parts of a state forest after the Environment Protection Authority found a dead greater glider – an endangered species – nearby.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/30/nsw-forestry-agency-ordered-to-stop-logging-after-greater-glider-found-dead
#TallagandaSF #logging #biodiversity #wildlife #FCNSW #StopLogging

The NSW government has promised to create “an iconic Great Koala National Park” but there is a big problem ... they’re still logging it! If we’re going save koalas from extinction, this must stop!
https://www.koalapark.org.au/
Image: Forest embassy Bellingen
#biodiversity #logging #GKNP #NSW

The forest ecology alliance has a forest embassy in Bellingen
forestecologyalliance@gmail.com
#NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #logging #SaveTheKalang #Bellingen

@environment @Bellingen

Dr. Tim Cadman about clear felling Tuckers Nob forest, compartments 26/27, also know as the proposed Great Koala National Park.
on Coffs Coast Breakfast (start 38 min - 49 min)

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/coffscoast-breakfast/coffs-coast-breakfast/102768584

Some points mentioned:

The impacts of clear felling on koalas and wildlife.
Koalas and other wildlife are 'blind' to so called 'plantation' labels or old growth forests.
The proposed logging period also overlaps with the 'vulnerable to extinction' marsupials' breeding season. ( September and February)
The noise, trucks, dust, fires, smoke, pesticides of industrial logging operations making the area unlivable for all living beings.
Possibly an uninhabitable scenic Gleniffer for approx. 2 - 5 years due to being tuned into an industrial site.
The short notice to (some) residents.
The undemocratic nature of non-consultation.
The fobbing off to a FCNSW website.

At approx. 47 min FCNSW had their statement read out.

#Gleniffer #residents #Bellingen #pesticides #fires #smoke #trucks #noise#FCNSW #logging #GKNP #GreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #biodiversity #RosesRoad #GlenifferRoad #StopLogging #TN26/27 #SaveTuckersNob

Koalas crushed, starving as Kangaroo Island's blue gum plantations come down

"As the plantations come, down dislocated koalas are hurting recovering native vegetation."

"Wildlife workers and researchers say Kangaroo Island koalas displaced by the removal of controversial Tasmanian blue gum plantations are starving — and an urgent solution is required...We're seeing koalas starving and being displaced in large numbers and this is just not good enough. Mrs Welz said since November last year, her group had cared for numerous animals with crush injuries."

"What we … would love to see is a sacrificial plantation where healthy koalas can be put in to live out their natural lives," she said."

"Koalas are not indigenous to Kangaroo Island and were introduced in the 1920s...the island's vegetation had not fully recovered from the Black Summer bushfires, and as koalas displaced by the plantation shutdown moved into farmland and areas of roadside vegetation, over-browsing was occurring."

"The spokesperson said the department was aware of the potential impacts on remnant native vegetation as koalas were forced to move, but that it was not considering acquiring or leasing part of the remaining unburnt plantation as a refuge."

"The animals are being displaced as the island's timber plantations come down."

""Locals say a koala management plan is needed as displaced animals are destroying native plants."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-30/calls-for-koala-management-kangaroo-island-plantations-removed/102754180
#wildlife #habitat #koalas #crush #injuries #plantations #RemnantVegetation #logging #BlackSummer #bushfires #CarbonOffsets #KangarooIsland #translocation

Stop burning fossil fuels
Stop deforestation

Off-the-charts records: humans have broken the climate

"Climate science’s projections are pretty robust over the last decades. Unfortunately, humanity’s stubbornness to spew out ever higher amounts of greenhouse gases has also been pretty robust."
Prof Malte Meinshausen, University of Melbourne, Australia.

“What we are seeing this year is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of what we expect to happen...If we do not halt global warming soon, then the extreme events we see this year will pale against the ones that are to come.”
Prof Natalie Mahowald, of Cornell University

"The impacts are frighteningly more impactful than I - and many climate scientists I know - expected."
Prof Krishna AchutaRao, Indian Institute of Technology.

A" “tiny window” of opportunity remained open to tackle the climate crisis,..with humanity having all the tools needed. The researchers overwhelmingly pointed to one action as critical: slashing the burning of fossil fuels down to zero."

We need, above all, a just and equitable transition. A very small percentage of the human population is responsible for most greenhouse gas emissions.
Prof Paola Arias, University of Antioquia, Colombia.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/crazy-off-the-charts-records-has-humanity-finally-broken-the-climate
#deforestation #logging #Bushfires #heatwaves #floods #disasters #FossiFuels #transition #ClimateAction #Climate #OffTheCharts records

In general, I reckon that it is a good idea to STOP cutting down our mature native forests - that is the tiny pockets that we have left. And help preserve our endangered wildlife. If you could turn your attention to this pressing matter, please, #auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/home-of-endangered-marsupial-threatened-by-state-sanctioned-logging-in-nsw-environmentalists-say

#australia #wildlife #logging #climateemergency #extinction

How 19th-century plantations turned Maui into a tinderbox

Hawaii/ Lahaina, the 18th century, “Venice of the Pacific”:
"A glut of natural wetlands nourished breadfruit trees, extensive taro terraces and fishponds that sustained wildlife and generations of Native."

"But more than a century and a half of plantation agriculture, driven by American and European colonists, have depleted Lahaina’s streams and turned biodiverse food forests into tinderboxes... The rise of plantation capital spawned the drying of the west side of Maui."

"Land privatization and water depletion set the stage for the Lahaina fire 150 years ago. ...Disaster capitalism at its finest”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/27/maui-wildfire-water-plantations-ecology
#colonial #monoculture #plantations #water #rights #logging #IndigenousPeoples #Lahaina #Hawaii #disasters #Australia #NativeForest #bushfires