In Norway they tax their fossil fuel industry properly and give kids free university education, but here in Australia we subsidise the fossil fuel industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni. Budgets are all about choices #auspol #insiders abc.net.au/news/2024-03-0…

Hello World,

Imagine having a culturally significant site within a major city, dearly loved by the community, that had world-class birdwatching & nature-based tourism potential.

Well, our Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, approved its destruction!

I find this so incredibly galling - the same companies who we fought against and ‘won’ with cigarettes are back targeting teens with vapes in the exact same way. I really don’t know how they sleep at night

This morning I lay witness to perhaps 20% of the entire Swift Parrot population.

Thrill and despair in the same scene. To think they could be extinct within a decade.

We need to do more. Their value is greater than that of harvested timber.

1/2 Well this article made my day! First attempt to model whether humanity has any chance of getting to a safe and just operating space - where humanity's needs are met without breaching any planetary boundaries. Drumroll... the answer is... yes. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Last year Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek marched for The Voice in Redfern.

Now she’s ignoring First Nations pleas as bulldozers rip through 110 hectares of endangered species habitat at Lee Point Darwin.

Call her on 02-62777920 and 02-93790700 to say enough’s enough.

We are walking with the Traditional Owners of Evelyn Downs to develop relationships and support their aspirations for Country.

Read more 👉 bushheritage.org.au/newsletters/20…

📸 Annette Ruzicka
📍 Yankunytjatjara and Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara Country, South Australia

At Lee Point now, hundreds gathering and singing.

Except in cases where offset ‘credits’ are paid upfront b4 proj impacts are permitted, most scenarios involve immediate & certain biodiv losses in exchange for uncertain, future gains

Many risks are foreseeable👇but Annica Schoo (ACF)'s🧵shows the infinite regress of responsibility

We looked at all offsets required in national enviro approvals over a five-year period. We asked whether offsets were legally protected and whether they were required to be legally protected in the first place. Without legal protection, an offset could become a carpark tomorrow.

Excited to be talking about nature and why we should be investing in it at the Responsible Investment Australia conference Biodiversity Council ICON Science RMIT

Bulldozers have begun clearing high-quality savanna woodland at Darwin's Lee Point, tragically erasing biodiversity and cultural values. Approval of this project highlights how broken our national environmental laws are.

Contact Minister Tanya Plibersek now and demand new…

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SWIFFT Seminar - Unfolding trends in conservation -free on-line event. This seminar will explore new and emerging strategies across Government, NGOs and the environmental education sector aimed at conserving biodiversity and threatened species. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c9cb1ba8…

Ridiculous

With growing enthusiasm in gardening to help wildlife, which simple features will help the most native species?
After 5,795 wildlife surveys in 30 WA towns by 243 citizen scientists the results are in. 212 vertebrate native wildlife species used the gardens and only 4…

The country collects more in HECS repayments annually than it does in tax from oil and gas — and experts say changing that could pay down the HECS debt within three years.ab.co/3UdzFzO

The cognitive dissonance in Western Australia today.

WA had its hottest summer on record, triggering a potential “forest collapse” due to climate change

Fossil fuel co Woodside Energy holds its AGM, boasting annual underlying net profit of $5 billion

Their profit, our loss

UQ’s Prof. Maron Martine Maron discussed Australia’s extinction crisis and EPBC Act reforms at a recent Senate inquiry. “We need stronger National Environmental standards that don’t allow trading off one species for another” she says. Read for more: 1/3