#plantations — Public Fediverse posts

Harvesting fruit and vegetables 'in the middle of nowhere': The Pacific Islander farm workers scheme

"With about 30,000 PALM workers in Australia as of October, that equates to about 30 deaths per 100,000 people — more than six times the national average of 4.8 per 100,000."

"Back home, I usually drive for no more than 30 minutes before reaching my destination. Here, I'd drive for hours... after working 12-hour shifts." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/palm-workers-urged-to-obey-australian-driving-laws-/104730954

"Two Pacific Islander farm workers dead" >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-06/manjimup-fatal-crash-pacific-farm-workers/106636166
#PALM #workers #food #farms #work #AgriculturalIndustry #SettlerSociety #roads #TyrannyOfDistance #transport #rural #cars #Australia #exploitation #plantations #MobilityDesign #WideOpenSpaces #FossilFuel #FoodMiles
Image: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939

The idea of the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) and ongoing clearfell logging of native forests

"Government GKNP proposal falls short according to Ashley Love...He says a recent environmental report, prepared on behalf of and with input from local environmentalists, indicates the current Government proposal is “grossly inadequate...It fails to adequately protect the largest coastal koala population in NSW, which occupies Bongil Bongil National Park, Pine Creek, Orara East and Tuckers Nob State Forests."

“The majority of plantation production is for pulpwood into a market that is now heavily oversupplied in South-east Asia or for burning as “biofuel” for electricity production.”
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https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/government-gknp-proposal-falls-short-according-to-ashley-love
#Biodiversity #wildlife #NSWLogging #governance #failure #thegreatkoalaNationalPark #ClearFelling #plantations #BellingenShire #TuckersNob #NSWForestry #extractivism

Gentle logging certification

"Our analyses indicate that logging operations are compromising Australia's intention to meet its conservation goals...Our findings highlight the need for urgent reform in Australia's certification schemes and the importance of a significant expansion in protected areas." Professor David Lindenmayer

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-05/sustainable-timber-certification-concerns/105904122
#biodiversity #logging #LoggingImpacts #conservation #climate #NSWLogging #plantations #expansion

Modern slavery in Coffs Harbour?
Where does the fruit for Christmas come from?

"Migrant workers have given evidence in Coffs Harbour at a NSW parliamentary inquiry into modern slavery...More than 100 reports of migrant workers being exploited across Coffs Harbour in the past two years."

"The Coffs Coast is the nation's largest producer of blueberries."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-13/modern-slavery-migrant-hearings-in-nsw/106130342

Modern slavery au
https://www.modernslavery.gov.au/
#CoffsHarbour #NSW #IR #work #fruit #food #PALM #workers #exploitation #plantations #LabourMobility #HorticulturalIndustry #blueberries #ModernSlavery #PacificNeighbours

Christmas hamper contextualised with fruit from the plantations of the Coffs Harbour coast, ChatGPT

"... Poor pesticide spraying practices in the Nambucca Valley and Coffs Harbour regions...Chemical banned by European Union still used in Australia."

When you drive from Nambucca Valley to the Coffs Harbour regions you can see giant white plastic nets enclosing blueberries, raspberries and blackberries plantations. There are toxic chemicals on some berries, the water and the area.

"Banned chemical thiometon detected in berries sold at supermarkets."

"Blueberry farming has boomed in NSW, including in the Nambucca Valley, as minimal red tape is required to set up. Blueberry farms can be started without formal registration or oversight, making it hard for authorities to track pesticide use. Since January 2022, the EPA has prosecuted 21 pesticide-related incidents across a range of crops in local courts across NSW... The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) announced a review into the use of dimethoate on blueberries, raspberries and blackberries."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-07/pesticide-review-thiometon-dimethoate-blueberries-raspberries/105701674
#food #regulation #toxins #pesticide #water #BerryIndustry #EPA #APVMA #governance #fruits #blueberries #NSW #plantations #MidNorthCoast #nambucca #CoffsHarbour #pollution #sprayDrift #dimethoate #thiometon #neurotoxins

"Nous contraignons les animaux à s'adapter aux contraintes d'un élevage calqué sur la production en série d'objets manufacturés, alors que l'élevage devrait respecter les besoins éthologiques des bêtes. C'est une transgression car nous nous octroyons un droit absolu que nous n'avons pas. Cette violence envers les animaux nous accuse. Pourtant, le rapport aux animaux pourrait être l'occasion de penser une manière d'habiter la Terre qui rende possible la coexistence avec les autres espèces. Cela exige d'autres fondements de l'éthique et de la politique."

– Corine Pelluchon

#propriété #coexistence #eugénisme #capitalisme #extractivisme #appropriation #accaparement #plantations #esclavage #nature #séparation #épistémologie #spécisme #antiSpécisme #animaux #philosophie #croyances #écrabouiller #habitabilité #pleurabilité #citation #citations

"Fondation des systèmes politiques modernes, la dualité nature/culture eut des conséquences fondamentales sur la production d'une "science de l'homme", distinguant hommes et femmes, corps et esprit, civilisés et sauvages, et sans doute humains et semi-humains.
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À la "bioprospection coloniale" qui, depuis les premiers pas de Colomb, inventorie espèces végétales, minérales et animales à des fins de profit, s'ajouta ainsi une "ethnoprospection" c'est-à-dire un recensement et une classification universels des espèces humaines dont on pense qu'elles ont elles aussi des "natures différentes". En devenant "aussi diversifiée que la nature elle-même", l'humanité se décline en phénotypes plus qu'en origines géographiques, et l'on glisse d'une vision descriptive à un regard normatif, prédisposé à la hiérarchie."

"Capital et race : Histoire d'une hydre moderne", Sylvie Laurent

#SylvieLaurent #racialisation #eugénisme #capitalisme #extractivisme #appropriation #accaparement #Découverte #Rencontre #ChristopheColomb #Colomb #plantations #Antilles #Amérique #histoire #esclavage #NouveauMonde #racisme #propriété #coexistence #nature #séparation

Koalas face death, attacks and mass starvation from monoculture plantations
Cost-effective management techniques for Australian wildlife

"...Displaced animals were sometimes still up in trees that were felled and ended up with broken bones, or were orphaned babies left behind. Others were attacked by cows or dogs."

"A 2023 study of reported wild koala deaths in south-east Queensland found vehicles were responsible for about half (1,431) of all fatalities."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/11/koalas-face-death-attacks-and-starvation-as-blue-gums-chopped-down-in-victoria
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #harm #pets #Livestock #roads #vehicles #RoadTrauma #KillingZones #plantations #monoculture #extractivism #governance #Australia #extinction

Drone locates 20 koalas in forest due to be logged next year

"A thermal drone imaging survey has been conducted over a plantation within the Great Koala National Park footprint. 20 koalas were detected over two nights at Tuckers Nob State Forest, which is due to be logged in the New Year."

The so called 'plantations' are more like native forests. Tuckers Nob forest must be included in the great koala national park. Video>>
https://www.nbnnews.com.au/2024/12/18/drone-locates-20-koalas-in-forest-due-to-be-logged-next-year/
#LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #koalas #SaveTuckersNob #Bellingen #Gleniffer #plantations #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #conservation #drones #RadioTelemetry #FCNSW #destruction

004Tarkeeth - Koala habitat converted to plantation

Dr. Cadman's video "shows active and recent conversion of original forest and koala habitat to plantation inside the proposed Greater Koala Park, undertaken by #NSWForestry despite repeated warnings. This is what clearfall forestry looks like."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVx6fula8wU
#NSWForestry #FCNSW #RemnantVegetation #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #NativeForests #conversion #plantations
#BellingenLogging #ClearFelling #logging #Tarkeeth #destruction

The Forestry industry and the communities it supports cannot afford another fire.
Forestry industry still feeling effects of Black Summer looks at how to best protect plantations. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-12-30/forestry-communities-cant-afford-another-fire-after-black-summer/103272090
#ForestryCorporation #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #plantations #FossilFuel #bushfires #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis

Afforestation and climate mitigation: lessons from #Chile @TrendsEcolEvo
Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534723002458
Blog: https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2023/11/30/afforestation-and-wildfires-in-chile/

Left: The contribution of tree #plantations to #burned area is increasing
Right: #forest plantations act as a net carbon source in contrast to the #native forests (#sink)

@ecology @wildfirescience @nature @biodiversity @conservation @management @chileconciencia @chilebosque @arcana2023