#gumbaynggirr — Public Fediverse posts

Bellingen's main street was blocked by forest defenders

"The group remained on the road and demanded that the logging truck stop. Protesters sat down and laid underneath the vehicle."

"Members of the group shouted out to onlookers about logging industry profits and alleged corruption exacerbating climate change and the extinction of endangered native species."

“Forests are falling on Gumbaynggirr Country with zero consent and consultation with Gumbaynggirr Elders."

“Colonial extraction is driving extinction and climate collapse. There is no other option than to disrupt it.” >>
https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/protesters-block-bellingen-main-street
#NSWLogging #FCNSW #PineCreek #TuckersNob #LoggingIndustry #protest #Bellingen #roads #trucks #harm #extinction #extractivism #biodiversity #ResidentsVoters #Gumbaynggirr #IndigenousPeoples #

Controlling feral animals and restoring native vegetation.
A court will decide the future of Yuraygir’s feral horses. That matters for native plants and animals

"Yuraygir National Park, on the coast of northern New South Wales on Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr Country, is a stunning landscape where you can see coastal emus and spot migrating whales from the shore."

"It is also home to a small feral horse population that is now at the centre of a legal dispute. The final hearing, taking place on Wednesday, could have repercussions far beyond feral horses."

"However, there is a strong ecological case for controlling feral horses. As large, hard-hooved, introduced grazing animals, feral horses can inflict significant damage to Australian ecosystems. They trample plants, compact soils, erode stream banks and disturb wetlands. This endangers many native species that rely on these fragile habitats, some of which live nowhere else. So feral horses must be managed with the same planning and urgency as other invasive animals."

"For now, we await a decision from the NSW Land and Environment Court. But to safeguard this sacred landscape, we must protect it from the hard hooves and hungry mouths of feral horses." >>
https://theconversation.com/a-court-will-decide-the-future-of-yuraygirs-feral-horses-that-matters-for-native-plants-and-animals-290522
#biodiversity #NationalParks #Yuraygir #Gumbaynggirr #FeralHorses #legacy #InvasiveSpecies
Image: emu eggs

People who care for Country
How Indigenous Protected Areas became a vital way to protect nature in Australia >>
https://theconversation.com/how-indigenous-protected-areas-became-a-vital-way-to-protect-nature-in-australia-288394
#IndigenousProtectedAreas #conservation #FirstNationsPeoples #IPAs #biodiversity #Gumbaynggirr #care

Telstra outage, tourism slump and space junk | Australia Wide this week – ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Telstra outage, tourism slump and space junk | Australia Wide this week  ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #australiawide #bestof #bestofaustraliawide #emergency #flights #Gumbaynggirr #outage #Science #spacedebris #spacejunk #Telstra #tourism #voucher
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/792781/

Passing on language and culture
Bamay Possum’s Party (Gumbaynggirr)

"Bamay Possum’s Party is an educational children’s story featuring Gumbaynggirr words that has been enjoyed by readers since 1994. This improved 2025 edition features colourful illustrations by Frank McLeod and includes notes for teachers and a guide to the sounds of the Gumbaynggirr words used throughout the book." >>
https://muurrbay.org.au/resources/bamay-possum-party-gumbaynggirr/

Bamay Possum's Party >>
https://muurrbay.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Bamay-Possums-Party-Sheet-Music_Gumbaynggirr.pdf

Reclaiming our Aboriginal languages
Published by the Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative, based in Nambucca Heads, New South Wales. >>
https://muurrbay.org.au/
#Gumbaynggirr #book #possum #Dunggiirr #children #koala #AboriginalLanguages #Nambucca #MidNorthCoast #NSW
Image: Possum startled by roaming cats, Bellingen

Court makes landmark decision after illegal logging in NSW state forest
"Trees were illegally felled in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest, north of Dorrigo." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-01/wild-cattle-creek-state-forest-illegal-logging-court-decision/106514766
#loggingIndustry #FCNSW #harm #crime #Coffsharbour #Dorrigo #NSW #biodiversity #Gumbaynggirr #FirstNationsPeoples

'English First' policies and
the uncomfortable waning of empire

* “The English Language Bill demonstrated that New Zealand First was "trying to appeal to a racist fringe". Professor O'Sullivan >
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-05/new-zealand-first-pushes-to-make-english-an-official-language/106410158

* "The English-only movement...is a political movement that advocates for the exclusive use of the English language in official United States government communication through the establishment of English as the only official language in the United States." >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-only_movement

* “Australia is home to over 250 distinct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, comprising around 800 dialects, which are deeply connected to specific land, culture, and identity.” >
https://www.alt.nsw.gov.au/learn/nsw-aboriginal-languages-information

* 'Scarily diverse' people from First Nations or from a culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
https://theconversation.com/a-shadow-on-your-art-how-do-first-nations-and-culturally-diverse-authors-feel-about-representation-275446

* "Monolingualism or unilingualism, is the condition of being able to speak only a single language." >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolingualism

#EnglishLanguage #EnglishFirst #language #LanguagePolicies #monolingualism #MonolingualMindset #diverse #polyglots #MultilingualPeople #NormativeMonolingualism #ForcedAssimilation #settlersociety #Anglophones #FirstNationsPeoples #Gumbaynggirr

Logging NSW mid-north coast biodiversity in the plantationocene ( The Great Koala National Park )

'The NSW government has imposed a temporary moratorium on timber harvesting within the boundary from Monday, but harvesting in plantations will continue."

"Koalas on track to be extinct in the wild across NSW by 2050."
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-07/great-koala-national-park-to-go-ahead-on-nsw-mid-north-coast/105743430
#biodiversity #Plantationocene #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #koalas #gliders #Gumbaynggirr #Dunghutti #NSWLogging #GaggingSci #plantations

Developing Coffs Harbour foreshore will amount to a ‘desecration of the land’, traditional owners say

"We need to have cultural spaces preserved, and no one is listening."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/10/coffs-harbour-foreshore-development-traditional-owners
#CoffsHarbour #NSW #MidNorthCoast #coast #sprawl #JettyForeshore #Gumbaynggirr #IndigenousPeoples #consultation

Girrwaa Duguula - teach language through song.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-19/choir-sings-in-gumbaynggirr-reviving-ancient-indigenous-language/104795492

( Gumbaynggirr country between #Nambucca Heads to #Grafton in New South Wales. )

#FirstNations #Gumbaynggirr #Choirs #Singing

When they came and took the forest away... there was a civil uprising.
Pt 1/2

Timber thieves operated in a small town in Mexico. Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán.
"One estimate states that about half of the area's 17,000 hectares of forest have been lost to illegal logging..."about fifty thousand acres of forest were illegally cut between 2008 and 2011," and 200–250 logging trucks a day passed through the town."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher%C3%A1n

Reclaiming the Forests and the Right to Feel Safe
"Crime, raging violence, corrupt politicians, a toothless justice system had the Indigenous community in a stranglehold. In 2011, the women of Cherán led a revolt against illegal logging and corruption. Today, the forests are coming back, and the Indigenous community is returning to its roots."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cheran-mexico

The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrPBdLiqMb0

The Cherán Indigenous Community’s Remarkable Road to Self-rule
"After turning to self-government to fight illegal logging by narco-traffickers, a small town in Mexico is celebrating 4 years of communal decision-making."
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-cheran-indigenous-communitys-remarkable-road-to-self-rule-in-mexico

Pt. 2
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/110948624647555754
#Forests #biodiversity #trees #water #Cherán #IndigenousPeoples #uprising #Logging #violence #trucks #cartels #corruption #IndigenousSelfRule #SelfDetermination #DecisionMaking #SocialMedia #protests #democracy #activism #resistance #PoliticalParticipation #fightback #NewryStateForest #NSWLogging #Gumbaynggirr

When they came and took the forest away... there was a civil uprising.
Pt.2/2

Cherán. 5 years of self-government in an indigenous community in Mexico
"Ordinary people decided to confront the criminal organizations that came down from the hill with several vans loaded with wood. That was the beginning. Its experience has inspired indigenous communities throughout Mexico, who seek respect for their rights, territory, institutions and culture."
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/cher-n-5-years-of-self-government-in-indi/

“Reclaiming the Forests and the Right to Feel Safe.” The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/world/americas/in-mexico-reclaiming-the-forests-and-the-right-to-feel-safe.html

Images: Confronting the cartel: Ritual Inhabitual depict a community’s fightback against corruption in Mexico
https://www.1854.photography/2023/07/ritual-inhabitual-ones-to-watch/

Can satellite imagery fight illegal logging in Mexico?
Between 2006 and 2012, researchers estimate that about 70 percent of Cheran’s forests were ravaged by organised criminals as locals staged protests to denounce police inaction.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/26/can-satellite-imagery-fight-illegal-logging-in-mexico

Pt. 1
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/110948628395660370

#Forests #biodiversity #trees #water #Cherán #IndigenousPeoples #uprising #Logging #violence #trucks #cartels #corruption #IndigenousSelfRule #SelfDetermination #DecisionMaking #SocialMedia #protests #democracy #activism #resistance #PoliticalParticipation #fightback #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #NSWLogging #Gumbaynggirr

Many now flock to natural places for the best selfie background

"Trampling plants, damaging rock art, risking your life: taking selfies in nature has a cost."

"Someone goes swimming, puts it on social media and suddenly there’s 100 people a day coming to go wild swimming where the platypus and the glow-worms live. And in a wet year, suddenly all the vegetation around the rock pool is trampled, it turns into a muddy mess."

https://theconversation.com/trampling-plants-damaging-rock-art-risking-your-life-taking-selfies-in-nature-has-a-cost-211901
#Gumbaynggirr #Bellingen #PromisedLand #NeverNeverRiver #tourism #OverTourism #locals #selfie #nature #wildlife #platypus #NoGeotags #travel

New research shows: "Alarmingly, climate change is making bushfires more frequent."
Logging and 'thinning' Bellingen does too.

"We excluded deliberate burns such as hazard reduction (or prescribed) burns lit by fire authorities. We also excluded places that had been logged, because they’re known to be at a high risk of severe fire – and so including them would have skewed the results."

"Clearly, we must seek to limit the number of wildfires. An obvious response is to take more strident steps to tackle climate change. But even if humanity meets this huge global challenge, it will be a long time before we see demonstrable changes in climate conditions."

"More immediate options include managing vegetation to reduce flammability. For example, activities such as logging and thinning can make forests more flammable, so such practices should be halted in these vulnerable ecosystems."

"Greater efforts are needed to conserve biodiversity that is sensitive to fire, and to conserve ecosystems at risk of collapse. We must also embrace new technologies to detect wildfires as soon as they ignite, and suppress them as quickly as possible."

https://theconversation.com/yes-climate-change-is-bringing-bushfires-more-often-but-some-ecosystems-in-australia-are-suffering-the-most-211683

Logging elevated the probability of high-severity fire in the 2019–20 Australian forest fires
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01717-y

What environmental and climatic factors influence multidecadal fire frequency?
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4610

#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #Gleniffer #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala #SaveTuckersNob #bushfires #biodiversity #conservation

Bellingen - Tuckers Nob proposed logging/ clear felling Information Meeting

To the community of Tuckers Nob State Forest and any residents concerned by proposed Industrial Logging of Compartments 26/27 you are invited to a meeting by Friends of Tuckers Nob at

Gleniffer Hall
Thursday 17 of August at 6 pm

#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #catchment #RosesRd #GlenifferRd #trucks #traffic #noise #dust #Gleniffer #meeting #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #woodchips #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala

Newry State forest - Anti-logging protest enters second week
Anti-logging protesters near Coffs Harbour, on the New South Wales north coast, say an area being logged in the Newry State forest contains sacred sites and endangered species.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/video/anti-logging-protest-enters-second-week/g6o6mcn7l

'It's killing our songlines' - traditional owners protest against logging
Podcast & transcipt
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/its-killing-our-songlines-traditional-owners-protest-against-logging/4p2pwob17
#Logging #biodiversity #Gumbaynggirr #FirstNationspeople #CoffsHarbour #NewryStateForest #SacredSites #EndangeredSpecies #koalas

NSW Labor accused of ‘fundamental breach of trust’ over logging in promised koala national park

"Tensions are escalating in state forests near Bellingen, where a protesters’ camp is locked in a standoff with a heavy police presence. The government made one single promise – it was going to create the great koala national park – and now it’s gutting it. All communities around are considering it a fundamental breach of trust and reneging on a promise.”

Bellingen is turning into a 'blank spot' on the map, all that has had the potential to 'put it on the map' is extracted, eradicated and ruined.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/12/nsw-labor-accused-of-fundamental-breach-of-trust-over-logging-in-promised-koala-national-park
#NSW #MidNorthCoast #Bellingen #Gumbaynggirr #Logging #landClearing #EndangeredHabitats #NewryStateForest #GNKP #koalas #biodiversity #Promises #Legitimacy #Trust #Climate

The New South Wales Government has ranked last out of every state and federal government in combating deforestation.

"Approved plans for forestry operations at Newry State Forest were made active last week. Newry State Forest holds cultural importance to the Gumbaynggirr people."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-03/wwf-ranks-nsw-government-last-australia-combating-deforestation/102683524
#climate #logging #NSW #CoffsHarbour #NewryStateForest #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #Gumbaynggirr #climate #biodiversity

Restoring biodiversity homes after fires

“The golden-tipped bat is found in rainforest gullies along the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range and was heavily impacted during the Black Summer bushfires of 2019–20. The microbat, which weighs up to 6 grams, is highly specialised and roosts in the bottoms of bird nests made by the yellow-throated scrub wren and the brown gerygone.”
“Indigenous knowledge saves golden-tipped bats as Black Summer bushfires destroy habitat.Traditional Aboriginal weaving techniques are being used to create nests for a tiny, threatened bat species in New South Wales. Ecologists hung about 30 artificial roosts during the 2022 breeding season in golden-tipped bat habitat in the mid-north coast NSW hinterland.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-03/indigenous-knowledge-saving-golden-tipped-bats-black-summer/102669214

Sharing culture to create new homes for the golden-tipped bat
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/news/sharing-culture-to-create-new-homes-for-the-golden-tipped-bat

Yarrawarra weaving group
https://www.yarrawarra.com.au/event/monthly-weaving-circle/

#MidNorthCoast #Bushfires #microbats #bats #birds #nests #FibreCraft #rainforest #habitat #Gumbaynggirr #IndigenousKnowledge #Yarrawarra #weaving #biodiversity #restore #ThreatenedSpecies #conservation

Forestry Corp taking a wrecking ball to Gumbaynggirr culture and the Great Koala National Park

"The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the states leading environmental advocacy organisation, has today condemned targeted and intensive logging of forests within the proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP) by Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW)."

"Newry State Forest on the Mid-North Coast (10km west of Urunga) is the most recent target of these operations inside the proposed GKNP...31,000 hectares of forest are currently slated for logging within the boundaries of the proposed GKNP over the next 12 months. This represents nearly 18 per cent of the entire area proposed for gazettal to form the GKNP.”

https://www.nature.org.au/forestry_corp_taking_wrecking_ball_to_gumbaynggirr_culture_gknp

NSW clearing 640 football fields of land per day, the majority unexplained

https://www.nature.org.au/nsw_clearing_640_football_fields_of_land_per_day_the_majority_unexplained

#GKNP #Gumbaynggirr #SacredSites #NewryStateForest #logging #LandClearing #NSW #climate #biodiversity #conservation

Gumbaynggirr Elders physically removed from Sacred Land in Newry State Forest

"These industrial logging operations destroy our water security, make our globally significant forest fauna extinct, destroy important public assets and carbon stores and endanger lives and properties by causing much more intense and frequent bushfires."
"Our land is being destroyed at this time by logging. The Newry State Forest holds our Nunguu Miirlarl, our sacred mens place and is home to many endangered animals, particularly our Koalas and our possum glider. We need to protect our totems. We need to protect Gumbaynggirr Culture. The NSW government promised a Great Koala National Park yet they (NSW Forestry Corporation) continue to log huge areas of Koala Habitat. We need take a strong stand and say no. This Logging must stop."

https://nit.com.au/31-07-2023/7001/elders-physically-removed-from-sacred-land
#Gumbaynggirr #Country #NewryStateForest #logging #GKNP #biodiversity

A message from Gumbaynggirr country
#Gumbaynggirr #Bellingen #NSW #respect #ecosystem #tourism SchoolHolidays #waterways #pollution #GeoTags

#Gumbaynggirr is on the Gambay - #FirstLanguages map. #Gambay showcases over 780 languages.

https://gambay.com.au/languages/Gumbaynggirr
https://www.firstlanguages.org.au/

#FLA #IndigenousLanguages #Coffs #Bellingen #Nambucca