#bunya β Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bunya, aggregated by home.social.
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Feral pigs are running wild
"Destruction wrought by pig-borne disease is thining the canopy of bunya pine forests. Australian landscapes didnβt evolve for hard-hoofed animals and aggressive foragers with the mass of a feral pig β¦ we are seeing severe ecological imbalances starting to occur.β >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/30/feral-pigs-queensland-rainforests-rivers-sacred-sites
#InvasiveSpecies #pigs #ungulates #bunya #SacredSites #harm -
Walking the trees: we traced how First Nations groups moved bunya pine and black bean trees
Pre-colonial dispersal of Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) and Black Bean trees (Castanospermum australe) by Indigenous Peoples. "Unpicking the deeper past using First Nations lore and genetic analysis is a promising combination to shed light on domestication. Indigenous movement of plants worked to domesticate landscapes. That is, social and cultural preferences of ancestral groups drove ecological transformations which seem, at first glance, to be natural."
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https://theconversation.com/walking-the-trees-we-traced-how-first-nations-groups-moved-bunya-pine-and-black-bean-trees-229914
#IndigenousKnowledge #BioculturalKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #flora #botany #trees #bunya #translocation #landscape #domestication #food #ethnoecology
