#shiftingbaselines — Public Fediverse posts

"Between 2000 and 2022, NSW logged approximately 435,000 ha of native forest and woodland, all of which overlapped with the distributions of at least one threatened forest-dependent taxon."

"While logging in NSW has degraded 435,000 ha of native forest across 143 threatened taxa distributions, logging is still legal under current legislation."
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https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.13185
#biodiversity #ShiftingBaselines #ThreatenedSpecies #NSWLogging #FCNSW #LoggingIndustry #deforestation #degradation #harm #fires #roads #SettlerSociety #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #ExtinctionCrisis #EPBCAct #EUDR

Online #Privacy and #Overfishing: #DanielPauly's #ShiftingBaselines

Internet #surveillance, and the resultant loss of privacy, is following the same trajectory as fishing. Just as fish populations in the oceans have fallen 80%, from previously having fallen 80%, from previously having fallen 80% (ad infinitum), expectations of privacy have similarly fallen precipitously. Each successive generation of the public is accustomed to the privacy status quo of their youth.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/online-privacy-and-overfishing.html

Industrialization changed Italy’s Bagnoli Bay. Analyzing the DNA that was trapped in sediment, known as sedaDNA, offers a record of what was lost—and a clue as to how to get it back.

Written by Sean Mowbray

#eDNA #DNA #sedaDNA #shiftingbaselines #BagnoliBay

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/peeling-back-the-sediment-layers/