Quintessentially Australian:

"Bulldozers made quick work of the Murray Darling Basin landscape."
"Bulldozers flattened trees and grasses which were then burned"
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/satellite-photos-reveal-disturbing-change-to-iconic-aussie-landscape-065657701.html
#biodiversity #EPBCAct #nature #conservation #LandClearing #MurrayDarlingBasin #agribusinesses #PropertyDevelopers #governance #destruction #NSW #Australia #climate #incineration

"Digging dams in sensitive environments"

"A commercial farming company (Green Leaf Australia Group) and one of its directors have together been fined close to $300,000, for constructing and using dams without approval and impacting a "nationally significant" freshwater wetland in northern New South Wales."

"...The court found that some of the offences involved removing vegetation and clearing land, which caused harm to the environment, including nationally significant freshwater wetlands listed as endangered ecological communities.

"It's not just the environmental harm but also the Aboriginal cultural harm that's occurred though this offending, which Magistrate Scott Nash described as 'reckless and motivated for financial gain,'" Ms Stockley said."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-05/300k-fine-for-green-leaf-farming-company-and-director-over-dam/105006882
#wetlands #ecosystems #water #biodiversity #Ramsar #conservation #NSW #MidNorthCoast #ClybuccaAboriginalArea #harm #landclearing #irrigation #FinancialGain #extractivism

'Last chance to see' tourism: See rare or endangered species before they disappear
Bird-tracking apps turning sightings into stampedes
Chasing online alerts with a lot of fossil fuel.
"Almost one in six Australian birds are threatened with extinction."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-15/tourism-industry-twitchers-birdwatching/104919868
#birds #birdwatching #twitchers #overtourism #LoggingImpacts #landclearing #extinction #biodiversity #conservation #TheDrive #SUVs #Fossilfuels #cats #pets

Australian water quality trends over two decades show deterioration in the Great Barrier Reef region and recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin
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Guo, D., Zhang, Q., Minaudo, C. et al. Australian water quality trends over two decades show deterioration in the Great Barrier Reef region and recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin. Commun Earth Environ 6, 67 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02044-3
#water #pollution #rivers #MDB #GBR #reef #GreatBarrierReef #phosphorus #LandClearing #degradation

$4.8 million pledged to return island to the wild to save threatened species
By Jodie Hamilton

South Australia's fourth-largest island is set to become an ark for mammal species recovery, funded by $4.8 million from governments including ridding the island of rats, mice, and cats.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-04/flinders-island-haven-for-threatened-native-animals/104891244

Confronting devastating destruction

"Since Europeans arrived in Australia, much of the country has become severely degraded."

"Around 40% of our forests and 99% of grasslands have been cut down and cleared, and much of what remains is under threat. Thousands of ecological communities, plants and animal species are threatened with extinction."

"Australia remains a global logging and deforestation hotspot. We have the world’s worst record for mammal extinctions and lead the world in arresting climate and environment protesters. To top it off, a recent study estimated more than 9,000 native Australian animals, mostly invertebrates, have gone extinct since European arrival. That’s between one and three species every week."
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https://theconversation.com/in-2025-lets-make-it-game-on-not-game-over-for-our-precious-natural-world-245761
#LoggingImpacts #LandClearing #deforestation #mining #degradation #extractivism #SettlerSociety #coal #climate #FossilFuels #BiodiversityCrisis #extinction #EcologicalGrief #destruction #conservation #change #Australia #NYE

'Farming'
"NSW farmer fined record $1m for wiping out critical koala habitat for private airstrip larger than Sydney airport. Ronald Greentree and his company Auen Grain cleared 1,262 hectares of land home to 30 threatened species, NSW government says."

"The 1,262 hectares (3,120 acres) of native vegetation cleared included critical habitat for 30 threatened species, including the koala and Glossy Black Cockatoo, to make way for a private airstrip, crops and cattle yards...Greentree has a history of destroying biodiversity."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/29/nsw-farmer-fined-land-clearning-koala-habitat
#NSW #LandClearing #farming #cattle #ThreatendSpecies #koalas #harm #crime #biodiversity #extinction makers

Waterholes are in danger of filling up with eroded soil from farms. This is putting a big squeeze on life in the river.

https://theconversation.com/soil-erosion-is-filling-vital-inland-river-waterholes-putting-the-squeeze-on-fish-turtles-and-crayfish-207155
#aquatic #wildlife #LandClearing #cattle #erosion #MurrayDarlingBasin

I've been here for a couple of weeks, and I've not yet done the polite thing of an #introduction post, so here goes.

My day job is in #webdev for a small company in #Hobart working mostly in #WordPress (reluctantly), as well as #Laravel and #React.

I live in #Glenorchy, #Tasmania (part of Greater Hobart, for those not from these parts) and am interested in how the community and governments can work together to make local communities a better place to live: #urbanism, #walkability, #biking, #housing (as a human right), #coops, #PublicTransport, #TacticalUrbanism, #cycling, #UrbanMobility, #MissingMiddle, #BikeTooter, #StrongTowns, #Trains, #CarDependency (against, obviously).

I’m a #vegan #AnimalRights advocate, and am on the Tasmanian state committee of the #AnimalJusticeParty. I’m also interested in the #environment (read: our ability to continue living on this planet): #ClimateChange, #BiodiversityCrisis, #LandCare, #LandClearing (against, obviously).

That’s enough #hashtag stuffing for one introduction.