James Trezise ⁦Biodiversity Council⁩ describes “Nature positive’ at ⁦⁦Kylea Tink MP⁩ forum on the Future of Our Environment pleading for national leadership on environmental law reforms

The offshore oil and gas industry should not be exempt from complying with national environmental law, that's why we are calling for the scrapping of an amendment which would carve out the offshore oil and gas industry from needing to comply with the EPBC Act.…

If we want to finally be the good guys on #climate , we need to stop trashing nature and #biodiversity - Leading by example - Australian Geographic australiangeographic.com.au/topics/opinion… Biodiversity Council Hugh Possingham 💧simon holmes à court Sarah Bekessy

Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives its kids free University education…in Australia we subsidise the fossil fuel industry and charge our kids a fortune to go to university…the choices our governors make change lives #auspol #qanda

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Public money for public schools, not for private school swimming pools! - This is a petition started by my daughter. Could you possibly retweet and sign if you agree? chng.it/RvBzKrQMBp
#ForEveryChild
AEU Brendan Wintle

So fabulous to have several of our Biodiversity Councillors talking about nature at WOMAD! If you were lucky enough to see Sarah Bekessy, Martine Maron or Brendan Wintle tell us your highlight 😀 💡

Labor & the Coalition are on a unity ticket in arguing against having climate change in our national environmental laws 😔

In 2005 the now PM, Anthony Albanese, introduced his own Bill to add a climate trigger.

20 years later Labor say we don't need one 😳🤦🏼‍♂️

Allowing duck hunting to continue in Victoria is shameful and part of a disturbing trend by. Great analysis by Jack Pascoe Biodiversity Council of why we must demand better care of nature by Victorian Government
theconversation.com/allowing-duck-… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

We've committed to protect 30% of Australia's land by 2030. To reach our ambitious goal of boosting protection to 30% by 2030, we’ll have to sharpen our focus and boost funding. Here's how we could actually do it. theconversation.com/weve-committed… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Congratulations ⁦Climate Council⁩ for an incredible, brave, impactful decade of truth-telling and change. Inspiring.

Thx Andrew Leigh for being the first Australian Labor MP to come & sit with me. I’ve always respected you as a good man. Andrew asked me to give up. I said I would when PM Anthony Albanese agrees that we should stop kidding ourselves we’re doing enough for a safe future.
#ClimateHungerStrike

Exciting launch of University of Melbourne's #OnePlanet vision HT Mark Cassidy Brendan Wintle Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology unimelb.edu.au/one-planet

Thanks Lorax451 - i’d point you toward the very positive response to Sarah Bekessy and colleagues Biodiversity sensitive urban design including being legislated now in South Australia. theconversation.com/heres-how-to-d…

“In QLD local govs can, and most do already have rules requiring owners to keep their cats contained. However, most have not implemented effective education, monitoring, and enforcement programs to ensure that cat owners are complying with the rules.”
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Great weekend listen: Brendan Wintle on the importance of small habitat patches for conservation abc.net.au/listen/program… via ABC Australia

Climate action must not exacerbate our biodiversity decline crisis. With good regional planning it is possible to deliver green energy projects in areas that minimise biodiversity impacts. Sad to see La Trobe University clear 3.5 ha of bushland for a solar farm.
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This is amazing - surely it can’t be true?

Yet more extinct Australian mammal species.

We discovered three new species of marsupial. Unfortunately, they're already extinct theconversation.com/we-discovered-… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

We cannot solve the climate crisis by cutting down trees - The tension between renewables and biodiversity should be solvable through lateral thinking and careful planning - ABC News abc.net.au/news/2023-10-2…

Thank you for the Ockam’s Razor this morning Brendan Wintle we have an urgent need to act on the Sunshine Coast Qld as our housing estates continue expanding faster than Council can manage. Is anyone doing research into community attitudes up here? Big potential: suburbs 4 wildlife