#koalas — Public Fediverse posts

Great Koala National Park 'dependent' on carbon offsets, but taxpayers will pay 95% of cost

"The NSW Government says the Great Koala National Park is “dependent” on money from carbon offsets. Media headlines suggests the offsets are “worth hundreds of millions of dollars”."

"...Over the long term, taxpayers will pay for 95% of the costs of the Great Koala National Park, while carbon offsets will pay for about 5%. Yet the public is told that it is the carbon offsets that are providing the “real money”, the park “depends” on the offsets."

"Native forests should be protected because of their ecological, environmental and social value. Not because polluters are prepared to throw in some small change." >>
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260904-great-koala-national-park-dependent-on-carbon-offsets-but-taxpayers-will-pay-95-of-cost
#FossilFuels #pollution #Biodiversity #offsets #con #tax #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NationalParks #wildlife #koalas

Great Koala National Park 'dependent' on carbon offsets, but taxpayers will pay 95% of cost

"The NSW Government says the Great Koala National Park is “dependent” on money from carbon offsets. Media headlines suggests the offsets are “worth hundreds of millions of dollars”."

"...Over the long term, taxpayers will pay for 95% of the costs of the Great Koala National Park, while carbon offsets will pay for about 5%. Yet the public is told that it is the carbon offsets that are providing the “real money”, the park “depends” on the offsets."

"Native forests should be protected because of their ecological, environmental and social value. Not because polluters are prepared to throw in some small change." >>
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260904-great-koala-national-park-dependent-on-carbon-offsets-but-taxpayers-will-pay-95-of-cost
#FossilFuels #pollution #Biodiversity #offsets #con #tax #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NationalParks #wildlife #koalas

Great Koala National Park 'dependent' on carbon offsets, but taxpayers will pay 95% of cost

"The NSW Government says the Great Koala National Park is “dependent” on money from carbon offsets. Media headlines suggests the offsets are “worth hundreds of millions of dollars”."

"...Over the long term, taxpayers will pay for 95% of the costs of the Great Koala National Park, while carbon offsets will pay for about 5%. Yet the public is told that it is the carbon offsets that are providing the “real money”, the park “depends” on the offsets."

"Native forests should be protected because of their ecological, environmental and social value. Not because polluters are prepared to throw in some small change." >>
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260904-great-koala-national-park-dependent-on-carbon-offsets-but-taxpayers-will-pay-95-of-cost
#FossilFuels #pollution #Biodiversity #offsets #con #tax #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NationalParks #wildlife #koalas

Great Koala National Park 'dependent' on carbon offsets, but taxpayers will pay 95% of cost

"The NSW Government says the Great Koala National Park is “dependent” on money from carbon offsets. Media headlines suggests the offsets are “worth hundreds of millions of dollars”."

"...Over the long term, taxpayers will pay for 95% of the costs of the Great Koala National Park, while carbon offsets will pay for about 5%. Yet the public is told that it is the carbon offsets that are providing the “real money”, the park “depends” on the offsets."

"Native forests should be protected because of their ecological, environmental and social value. Not because polluters are prepared to throw in some small change." >>
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260904-great-koala-national-park-dependent-on-carbon-offsets-but-taxpayers-will-pay-95-of-cost
#FossilFuels #pollution #Biodiversity #offsets #con #tax #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NationalParks #wildlife #koalas

Great Koala National Park 'dependent' on carbon offsets, but taxpayers will pay 95% of cost

"The NSW Government says the Great Koala National Park is “dependent” on money from carbon offsets. Media headlines suggests the offsets are “worth hundreds of millions of dollars”."

"...Over the long term, taxpayers will pay for 95% of the costs of the Great Koala National Park, while carbon offsets will pay for about 5%. Yet the public is told that it is the carbon offsets that are providing the “real money”, the park “depends” on the offsets."

"Native forests should be protected because of their ecological, environmental and social value. Not because polluters are prepared to throw in some small change." >>
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260904-great-koala-national-park-dependent-on-carbon-offsets-but-taxpayers-will-pay-95-of-cost
#FossilFuels #pollution #Biodiversity #offsets #con #tax #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NationalParks #wildlife #koalas

https://www.europesays.com/ie/670563/ No koalas spotted inside purpose-built underpass after five months #AppinRoadUnderpass #beulah #conservation #Éire #GlenLorne #IE #Ireland #koalas #ousedale #Science #stockland #SydneyBasinKoalaNetwork #underpass #Wildlife

"The koala population
in the Burbank bushland (south-east Queensland) ...has suffered massive losses in the past 20-30 years."

"...Those little ones cross roads, walk into backyards with dogs or trip into swimming pools … we've had all of those types of koalas rescued..."

Strapping tracking collars around their necks and buzzing the marsupial with thermal drones will now help monitor the sprawling urbanisation, cars and dogs?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-25/tracking-collars-monitor-qld-koala-populations/106938890
#koalas #wildlife #HabitatFragmentation #Burbank #SEQueensland #greenbelt #GofetchMyData #dogs #pets #roads #conservation #telemetry

Are industrial scale burns incinerating Australian biodiversity?

"The “industrial” scale burns which are designed to “process landscapes as efficiently as possible” are known to frequently kill – in 2022, Victorian authorities accidentally incinerated several koalas when they set a forest alight, and evidence suggests fires set in Tasmania have killed endangered devils."

"A complete “rethink” of fire management practices by state authorities" is needed.
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/rare-aussie-bird-under-threat-over-common-tree-practice-catastrophic-061116403.html

Driscoll, D.A., Macdonald, K.J., Gibson, R.K. et al. Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08174-6
#Biodiversity #bushfires #fires #megafires #PyroConvectiveStorms #incineration #pileburning #sprawl #destruction #wildlife #birds #GlossyBlackCockatoos #koalas #CulturalBurning #ExtinctionCrisis #FossilFuels

Monitoring Australia’s endangered species
while logging their habitats

Scent dogs are being replaced by cost-effective biomonitoring of threatened species. Technology will detection chemical signals of wildlife assemblages in the environment. " Little did we know that traces of wildlife presence float in the air and can be detected through traces of DNA."

Will the air sampling techniques operate with the pollution of heavy logging machinery to detect the scent of a koala or a glider? Will it cut through the thick smoke from (bush) fires that follow? Will traffic pollution allow allow the technology to pick up the airborne eDNA?
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Frère, C., et.al (2023). Koalas, friends, and foes -- the application of airborne edna for the biomonitoring of threatened species.
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14784
#Koalas #glider #platypus #wildlife #conservation #BioMonitoring #dogs #ScentDogs #UAVs #eDNA #technosphere #olfaction #MoreData #NSWLogging #IndustrialLogging

Santos plundering and polluting the planet for profit.
https://www.lockthegate.org.au/north_west_locals_prepare_to_picket_santos_pipeline_route

ALP - Anthracite Lignite Party
https://www.lockthegate.org.au/plibersek_approves_three_vast_thermal_coal_mine_expansions_damning_water_climate_and_koalas

#FirstNations #Gomeroi #Koalas
#lockthegate #narrabri #Muswellbrook #pilliga
#MachEnergy #Santos #whitehaven #YanCoal

As summer heat arrives in August and they are expanding fossil fuels.
It is time to be prepared for mega fires in Australia.

"Australia’s unprecedented bushfires of 2019 to 2020 burned an area larger than the United Kingdom, killed at least 33 people, killed or displaced close to 3 billion animals, and destroyed the habitats of more than 500 species."

For 60,000 Years, Australia’s First Nations Have Put Fire to Good Use.
Watch “Burnt Country”, Kirsten Slemint's documentary on cultural burning in Australia.
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https://e360.yale.edu/features/2024-film-contest-second-place-australia-indigenous-fire
#bushfires #IndigenousBurning #CulturalBurning #FossilFuels #MegaFires #ExtremeHeat #biodiversity #koalas #extinction #Australia

The Koalas
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https://vimeo.com/932323309

Their habitat is disappearing under our eyes.
"The film started as an investigation into that small population of koalas, but quickly expanded into an expose on the demise of koalas across the country as federal and state governments continue to preference native forest logging and housing over nature. Again and again they saw community members trying in vain to stop politicians and industry from destroying koala habitat."

The film maker "believes many Australians think of their country’s wildlife as almost “vermin”, as the animals that have lived their for millennia often stand in the way of turning land into a fast and easy profit."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/australia-set-to-be-embarrassed-overseas-as-confronting-new-documentary-released-074057097.html
#Koalas #wildlife #biodiversity #LoggingIndustry #SettlerSocieties #cars #dogs

The degradation of public lands and biodiversity in settler societies:

"Grazing, fracking, logging, mining and permits for other private interests are imperiling wildlife, soil and vegetation already under siege by global warming...We are not safeguarding our public domain. The government agencies overseeing it are failing us. The private interests that want the land for profit have planted their teeth in the government. The national trend is against the preservation of the commons. Huge stretches are effectively privatized, public in name only... It is an infuriating battle when the agencies deemed to guard our public lands are the same ones putting them in jeopardy."

“This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West”, Christopher Ketcham (review)
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-07-26/review-this-land-chris-ketcham
#NSWLogging #LoggingIndustry #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #governance #Book #BellingenLogging #SettlerSocieties #extractivism #cattle #AgencyCapture #TheCommons #Bellingen #koalas #wildlife

Image: Logged biodiversity habitat rushing through Bellingen main street

‘Property poetry’?
"Real estate is another way to say Australia."

"Kate Holden connects Turnbull’s persistence in illegally clearing vast tracts of koala habitat, and his murder of Turner, to British Enlightenment theories of property. The English philosopher John Locke, she observes, “placed emphasis on labour to morally justify the owning of property. The more work put into the land, the more settled a man was upon it. Holden traces associations between Locke’s ideas, the history of terra nullius and the “strange, morbid fixation in Australian myth of just how hard a person has to work on this land.”

"[b]y the time of Australia’s settling, the ineluctable mark of a British citizen was land ownership. It enfranchised him, gave him rights […] Land – elemental, foundational – was the desperately prized asset in a new colony. Without it, man was only an object."

"Yet the contradictions and inequities surrounding the trade in stolen land are rehearsed largely without reflection or analysis across contemporary Australian culture."
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https://theconversation.com/property-poetry-real-estate-ads-and-literature-have-more-in-common-than-you-might-think-214835

#SettlerSociety #TruthTelling #dispossession #silence #IndigenousRights #RealEstate #speculation #HomeOwnership #HouseHunting #NationalImaginary #Australia #writing #degradation #koalas #JLocke #books #deforestation #AusCulture

Private landholders control 60% of the Australian continent.
Many of Australia’s ecosystems are severely degraded.
Only 22% of Australia’s landmass is currently protected.

"About 60% of the continent is owned or managed privately – and 70% to 90% of inadequately protected wildlife is found mostly on such land, which includes farms, pastoral leases and mines."

"Through what legal mechanism can private landholders be engaged in biodiversity conservation? A conservation covenant is a legally binding commitment landholders make to restrict how their property is used."

"Existing covenants are generally used to protect high-value conservation land where ecosystems are healthy. Rarely are they used on degraded land needing restoration, such as overgrazed paddocks or former mining."
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https://theconversation.com/private-landholders-control-60-of-the-australian-continent-so-lets-get-them-involved-in-nature-protection-217450
#PrivateLandholders #degradation #mining #overgrazing #ConservationCovenant #NaturePositive #30x30 #nature #wildlife #koalas #Refuges #NatureRepair #restoration #conservation #biodiversity #climate

New documents: EPA and Forestry Corporation at loggerheads over forests, koala protection
"In the September budget, funding for monitoring not only the NSW forestry approvals but also the 20-year Regional Forests Agreements was cut to $1 million p.a. This, supposedly to ensure forest biodiversity was protected from industrial logging."
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https://michaelwest.com.au/new-documents-epa-and-forestry-corporation-at-loggerheads-over-forests-koala-protection/
#ForestryCorporation #IndustrialLogging #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #NativeForests #destruction #koalas #conservation #biodiversity #monitoring

And then the koalas just vanished...
Speeding cars, road designs, roaming dogs and disease are the biggest koala killers.
Logging and sprawl should also be added to the list of extinction makers

"A database tracking hospital admissions and deaths reveals the devastating impact cars, disease and dogs are having on the South East Queensland koala population"
.
"In the five years between 2009 and 2014, 52% of reported wild koala deaths were caused by car strike, 34% were from a chlamydia-related disease and 14% were because of a dog attack.

"This equates to 1,431 koala deaths from a car strike, 943 chlamydia-related deaths, and 395 dog attack deaths in just five years."

"Remember that these deaths were just the reported cases, so the real numbers would be significantly higher."
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-cars-chlamydia-canines-biggest-koala.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40827-w
Ravi Bandara Dissanayake et al, Anthropogenic and environmental factors associated with koala deaths due to dog attacks and vehicle collisions in South-East Queensland, Australia, 2009–2013, Scientific Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-40827-w
#dogs #pets #dogAttacks #Mauling #cars #speeding #roads #RoadDesign #HabitatFragmentation #koalas #wildlife #IndustrialLogging #Bellingen #ThreatenedSpecies #IntroducedSpecies #sprawl #biodiversity #conservation #extinction makers

Logging in the Great Koala National Park without current threatened species surveys?

"Koalas, greater gliders and other threatened species have not been counted since 2017, well before the 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires and floods – but that has not stopped logging on an industrial scale in Clouds Creek State Forest and other native timber forests within the proposed Great Koala National Park in NSW."

"Forestry Corp’s ‘business as usual’ is not working for the koala or other threatened species, such as the greater glider. Logging procedures must change to include up-to-date wildlife surveys and events such as major floods and bushfires."

“It’s actually shocking that there is currently no requirement to conduct ecological surveys in our native forests prior to the commencement of logging." Greens MP and spokesperson for the Environment Sue Higginson

“The NSW Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Agriculture should immediately require pre-logging ecological surveys to be conducted to ensure that threatened species are being protected from industrial logging."
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https://1earthmedia.com/lack-of-threatened-species-surveys-hasnt-stopped-logging/
#GKNP #ThreatenedSpecies #koalas #gliders #IndustrialLogging #NSWLogging #WildlifeSurveys #MPG #MontrealProcessWorkingGroup #ExtinctionCrisis #biodiversity #habitat

..."To highlight the ongoing threat to koalas and Aboriginal culture from industrial logging of koala habitat in the Coffs Harbour region."

"The National Parks Association had requested that City of Coffs Harbour Councillor Jonathan Cassell make a small presentation in the form of a local Gumbaynggirr designed koala (Dunggiirr) t-shirt to the Prime Minister, to highlight the ongoing threat to koalas and Aboriginal culture from industrial logging of koala habitat in the Coffs Harbour region."

https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/albo-receives-a-surprise-koala-t-shirt-on-behalf-of-great-koala-national-park-supporters
#koalas #habitat #IndustrialLogging #BellingenLogging #NativeForests #CoffsHarbour #GKNP

The NSW #Koala #Conservation efforts to provide a safer #WildlifeCorridor by erecting a sign have been nullified by speeding motorists after just two weeks. The koala sign has been unearthed and the sign has been stolen.
#BellingenShire #Bellingen #MoreRoads #Detours #Cars #Speeding #Koalas #NorthCoast #Biodiversity #Habitat

#Bellingen #Motorists knocked down a new #Koala sign which was installed barely three weeks ago and was two meters away from the road.
#BellingenShire #Cars #Detour #Traffic #LawFree #PromisedLand #Wildlife #Vehicle #Collisions #Koalas #Koala #Conservation #Efforts #HabitatFragmentation #WildlifeCorridor #Biodiversity #Extinction makers