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There's nothing new per se here, but it's nonetheless a saddening read, gaaaaah.
Climate litigation isn’t ‘activist lawfare’, it’s democracy at work. The oil, coal and gas industries have strategically ducked and weaved litigation for decades, but the law is catching up with them.
Forget climate denial, Labor’s tactical fatalism will burn us all. The climate movement is ill-equipped to deal with a threat that looks like this. Any fantasy we had of a global moral pact of good intentions is dead.
Wood for the trees, Jonathan Green, November 2023
https://www.themonthly.com.au/november-2023/essays/wood-trees
#biodiversity #ecosystems #NativeForests #IndigenousPeoples #wildlife #EPBCAct #SamuelReview #extractivism #degradation #LoggingIndustry #mining #harm
"We're a biodiversity hotspot, but we won't be if we cover the whole of it in suburbia."
"If you're putting roads through koala habitat, you see more car strikes.
If you're building houses in there, you get more dog attacks,
and ultimately also the more koalas are compressed, you see higher stress in the population, and that results in less resilience and greater disease."
"The science is clear. We need to [be building] up, not out. The most important thing councils can do is protect the habitat that's there and be involved in restoring areas."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-12/drone-survey-researching-koala-populations-endangered-animals/105279284
#biodiversity #koalas #EndangeredSpecies #RemnantVegetation #NativeForests #sprawl #roads #cars #dogs #BellingenShire #suburbia #SettlerSociety
Action on illegal deforestation and land clearing - somewhere
A Brazilian judge has ordered the seizure of private lands where forests have been illegally razed.
"A justice on the Brazilian Supreme Court has directed the government to seize private lands where forests have been illegally razed." >>
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/brazil-judge-deforestation-land-seizure
#deforestation #LandClearing #crimes #governance #biodiversity #Australia #NativeForests
Native forest regeneration failure
Logging devastated Victoria’s native forests – and new research shows 20% has failed to grow back
"Following the end of native logging in Victoria on January 1 2024, the state’s majestic forests might be expected to regenerate and recover naturally. But our new research shows that’s not always the case. "
"These degraded areas no longer hold the value they once did and they cannot provide the same level of ecosystem services such as carbon storage, water purification, or habitat for wildlife."
"With no current government restoration plan, these landscapes will remain degraded indefinitely. Our research suggests leaving nature to its own devices would mean losing a fifth of the forests logged over the past 40 years. Bringing the trees back has multiple benefits and would be well worth the investment."
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https://theconversation.com/logging-devastated-victorias-native-forests-and-new-research-shows-20-has-failed-to-grow-back-254465
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A significant increase in forest regeneration failure following logging is driven by climatic and management factors
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0301479725011454
#biodiversity #wildlife #NativeForests #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #extractivism #clearfelling #degradation #regeneration #failure #ClimateBreakdown
The great koala - glider national park - logging an environmentally significant area
"The Minns Labor government promised to create a koala national park before the state election more than two years ago, but has not taken a decision on the boundaries and has allowed logging to continue. Between April and July 2024, the surveys detected greater gliders at 82 sites. The government’s analysis estimated the planned park has between 29,693 and 44,211 gliders, with a mean estimate of 36,483."
“...Logging should cease in all state forest areas identified as containing greater gliders.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/17/endangered-greater-gliders-recorded-in-proposed-great-koala-national-park-in-nsw-as-logging-continues
#BiodiversityCrisis #conservation #harm #destruction #NativeForests #koalas #gliders #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #ExtinctionCrisis #governance
@ajsadauskas @jaystephens Ta, interesting. I vaguely recall some of that, but your helpful toot defo provided more info than i knew.
I think something like this is why i feel, & tbh remain, so archly cynical... If Straya, & frankly the rest of the world, was genuinely honestly doing all the serious shit needed NOW to decarbonise & ameliorate, then seeking engineering solutions in flood zones like this would be ok. Knowing though that we & most others are totes NOT seriously addressing the crisis, fuels [boom tish] my severe pessimism, coz eg, engineering designs need engineering assumptions [in this case including expected heights & frequency of floods]. Such assumptions necessarily must be predicated on a certain "steady state" belief [plus safety margins thrown in]. That's all fine, IF we had reason to trust such assumptions. I do NOT trust them, simply coz there IS no steady state; humans are continuing to add more & more CO2 & CH4 to Gaia's atmosphere, thus more & more raising the enthalpy, ergo the heating energy, ergo... yada yada.
The Tasmanian government intends to open up just under 10,000 hectares of previously protected native forest for logging, new documents released under right-to-information laws show. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/tasmanian-government-moves-ahead-with-native-forestry-logging/105065596
#LoggingIndustry #LoggingIndustry #AboriginalHeritage #Heritage #NativeForests
"The hypermarketization of everything", Quinn Slobodian, 2025
Bean counters are attempting to put a monetary value on the complexity of nature
Think of a logged forest.
"The value of the timber produced counts towards Australia’s gross domestic product. But cutting trees down also produces a loss. For example, the forest is no longer there for the community to enjoy. And it no longer provides “services” such as filtering water and preventing soil erosion."
"There are many reasons to measure the value of those services. For example, governments might then be able to charge a logging company a licence fee which reflects the community value of the forest. A government may decide the forest is too valuable to allow logging at all, or the fee may just be set too high for any company to find it profitable to log it."
"To date, the value lost when trees are cut down, or other ecosystems are damaged, has not been included in the national accounts. The new environmental accounts seek to change this."
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https://theconversation.com/new-report-slaps-an-official-price-tag-on-australias-precious-natural-assets-250623
Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War,
Quinn Slobodian, 2025 >>
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781890951917/hayeks-bastards
#nature #Biodiversity #EPBCAct #NatureNegative #Naturepositive #complexity #ecosystems #degradation #value #loss #NativeForests #extractivism #hypermarketization
Documentation of the systematic destruction of Tuckers Nob forests
"Presentation for Friends of Tuckers Nob on the history and significance of Tuckers Nob State Forest and why it must be included in the NSW Government's proposed 'Great' Koala National Park. Based on a recent preliminary report submitted to government, showing the original forest and koala sightings, with a list of moratorium areas (including Tuckers). All the most recent developments, bringing the viewer up to date. This is why we need a #GreaterKoalaPark, with no logging."
The video has a link to the report containing the results (maps) of the investigations by Dr Tim Cadman and local community-based citizen scientists:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKZvVjG_XvM
#ResourceFrontiers #extractivism #biodiversity #ecocide #koalas #NativeForests #rainforest #BellingenLogging #clearfelling #NSWLogging #Bellingen #community #trauma #harm #moratorium #FCNSW #plantation #conversion #annexation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #bushfire #risk
I'm nowhere near her electorate, but am on a mailing list from Zali Steggall, who just sent this. Fyi.
Human-mediated extirpation of wildlife through logging
"Before industrial logging in south-west British Columbia, there were nearly 1,000 spotted owls in the old-growth forests. But they have vanished in recent decades, victims of habitat destruction. Activists have tried in vain to hold the government to account, alleging protected species laws have failed to prevent the extirpation of the owls."
"Efforts to revive the population have failed, with a pair of owls released from the breeding program dying within months. The lone female in the wild is also believed to have died."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/12/canada-owl-rats-valentines-day
What happened to the Northern Spotted Owl? >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_spotted_owl
#LoggingImpacts #harm #birds #biodiversity #NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #Wildlife #habitat #destruction #degradation #extirpation #NSWLogging #SaveTuckersNob #koalas #BellingenLogging #SettlerSociety #governance #ecocide
https://social.chinwag.org/@sbs_bot/113981081917844884 Any sentient being descended from apes that is not anxious, if not actually terrified, about the #ClimateCrisis, is either dead inside, or part of the problem... which on reflection are prolly the same thing anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqVVBUdW84
The Liberal Party of Australia has made an ad about its nuclear plan, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!
As usual, simply brilliantly incisive!
#TheJuiceMedia
#AusPol #Greens #VoteGreens #ProgIndies #WeAreTotallyFscked #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #Misanthropy #FsckOffDutton! #ShitParty1 #ShitParty2 #ComeOnTanya! #WhyIsLabor #NatsAreNuts #NoNukes #racism #FuckRacists
#ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance
HOME UNSETTLED
Settlers are detached from the land and mostly mistake "Little boxes made of ticky tacky" as 'home.' But now
"Climate change is forcing us to rethink our sense of ‘home’ – and what it means to lose it."
Val Plumwood ... "argues that, under capitalism, the idea of personal belonging to a particular place or dwelling is often framed as being more important than many other vital attachments to place, such as connection to land. She uses the term “shadow places” to describe the ecosystems we exclude and exploit – including our forests and waterways – even though they are fundamental to our existence. These places provide essential labour, nourishment and the conditions we need to survive and flourish. For Plumwood, an expanded sense of “home” would encompass the broader ecological context we exist within."
" Indigenous Australian law scholar Irene Watson explains colonisers were already alienated from a sense of connection to land when they came to “Australia”. This disconnection led them to plunder the land, treating it as a commodity rather than a living, complex ecosystem that nurtures and is nurtured by First Nations peoples."
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https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-forcing-us-to-rethink-our-sense-of-home-and-what-it-means-to-lose-it-247234
Malvina Reynolds - Little boxes on the hillside, Full Version with Lyrics >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoXtddNPAM
#Country #IndigenousPeoples #care #displacement #land #privatisation #commodification #LandSpeculation #landlordism #rentierisation #SettlerSociety #suburbia #housing #sprawl #homeplace #ClimateBreakdown #values #australia #NativeForests #plunder #ecosystems #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis #FossilFuels #extractivism #loss #home
And, Jenny, whilst we do so, will it be in parallel with continuing to support fossilfools via approving more fracking & coal, more land clearing & native forest destruction, more Adani climate crimes?
Hmmmm, Jenny? Shall we ask Tanya? Oh no, silly me, it matters not what she thinks, coz renown Tory Fighter Elbow will just overrule.
#AusPol #Greens #VoteGreens #ProgIndies #WeAreTotallyFscked #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #Misanthropy #FsckOffDutton! #ShitParty1 #ShitParty2 #ComeOnTanya! #WhyIsLabor #NatsAreNuts #NoNukes #racism #FuckRacists #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance
How a mayor beat the loggers to turn the place green again
Could Bellingen become a “green municipality”?
"A region battered by predatory logging and ranching...With its forest-gobbling ranchers, bootleg loggers and dodgy sawmill operators, this sprawling township the size of Israel was a big red flag."
“For decades, Paragominas was one of the Amazon’s epicentres of deforestation and timber extraction. That changed in 2008, with the municipal environmental pact, which reduced deforestation by 80%,” says Beto Veríssimo, co-founder of Imazon, a rainforest-based thinktank. ..Controlling deforestation turned the township into a magnet for investment and economic growth.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/07/brazil-amazon-paragominas-deforestation-landgrabs-shootouts-logging-slash-burn-farming-green-sustainability
#deforestation #LoggingImpacts #BellingenLogging #Gleniffer #Amazon #biodiversity #NativeForests #FrontierCommunity #logging #slashandburn #NSWLogging #FarrRight #governance