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  1. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    This could happen anywhere in Australia:
    Biodiversity conservation going to the dogs

    Somewhere in crowded suburbia is a small creek with a bit of bush left behind by accident. It is a refuge for swamp wallabies, blue wrens and many other species of the biodiversity kin.

    ‘User groups’, that is locals and their dogs demand that the last bit of green is for their ‘recreation’ and not Australian flora and fauna. Pet owners allow that their roaming dogs destroy the last small fragmented refuges where native wildlife can survive.

    Recently a council voted to fence dogs out of the park "to manage the growing dog population in the municipality." There are “problems with dog behaviour…They (swamp wallabies) are threatened and chased and killed by dogs.”

    Anger and vandalism followed. Local pet owners demand to "make the park off-leash for dogs.” The dispute requires 'conflict experts’ from outside to get involved.

    In a place where everything is 'dog friendly’ and where half of Australian households own at least one dog, they implicitly ‘voted with their paws’ to be 'wildlife unfriendly'.

    * Conflict experts called in following a dispute over a dog fence in Coburg >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/mer

    * A 'balancing act' as council votes to fence dogs out of park, sparking safety concerns >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/mer
    #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #UserGroups #dogs #pets #roaming #DogOwners #TheBush #recreation #parks #FOMC #fences #UrbanEcology #extinction #councils #WildlifeUnfriendly

    #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #usergroups #dogs #pets
  2. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    This could happen anywhere in Australia:
    Biodiversity conservation going to the dogs

    Somewhere in crowded suburbia is a small creek with a bit of bush left behind by accident. It is a refuge for swamp wallabies, blue wrens and many other species of the biodiversity kin.

    ‘User groups’, that is locals and their dogs demand that the last bit of green is for their ‘recreation’ and not Australian flora and fauna. Pet owners allow that their roaming dogs destroy the last small fragmented refuges where native wildlife can survive.

    Recently a council voted to fence dogs out of the park "to manage the growing dog population in the municipality." There are “problems with dog behaviour…They (swamp wallabies) are threatened and chased and killed by dogs.”

    Anger and vandalism followed. Local pet owners demand to "make the park off-leash for dogs.” The dispute requires 'conflict experts’ from outside to get involved.

    In a place where everything is 'dog friendly’ and where half of Australian households own at least one dog, they implicitly ‘voted with their paws’ to be 'wildlife unfriendly'.

    * Conflict experts called in following a dispute over a dog fence in Coburg >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/mer

    * A 'balancing act' as council votes to fence dogs out of park, sparking safety concerns >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/mer
    #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #UserGroups #dogs #pets #roaming #DogOwners #TheBush #recreation #parks #FOMC #fences #UrbanEcology #extinction #councils #WildlifeUnfriendly

    #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #usergroups #dogs #pets
  3. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    This could happen anywhere in Australia:
    Biodiversity conservation going to the dogs

    Somewhere in crowded suburbia is a small creek with a bit of bush left behind by accident. It is a refuge for swamp wallabies, blue wrens and many other species of the biodiversity kin.

    ‘User groups’, that is locals and their dogs demand that the last bit of green is for their ‘recreation’ and not Australian flora and fauna. Pet owners allow that their roaming dogs destroy the last small fragmented refuges where native wildlife can survive.

    Recently a council voted to fence dogs out of the park "to manage the growing dog population in the municipality." There are “problems with dog behaviour…They (swamp wallabies) are threatened and chased and killed by dogs.”

    Anger and vandalism followed. Local pet owners demand to "make the park off-leash for dogs.” The dispute requires 'conflict experts’ from outside to get involved.

    In a place where everything is 'dog friendly’ and where half of Australian households own at least one dog, they implicitly ‘voted with their paws’ to be 'wildlife unfriendly'.

    * Conflict experts called in following a dispute over a dog fence in Coburg >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/mer

    * A 'balancing act' as council votes to fence dogs out of park, sparking safety concerns >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/mer
    #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #UserGroups #dogs #pets #roaming #DogOwners #TheBush #recreation #parks #FOMC #fences #UrbanEcology #extinction #councils #WildlifeUnfriendly

    #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #usergroups #dogs #pets
  4. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    This could happen anywhere in Australia:
    Biodiversity conservation going to the dogs

    Somewhere in crowded suburbia is a small creek with a bit of bush left behind by accident. It is a refuge for swamp wallabies, blue wrens and many other species of the biodiversity kin.

    ‘User groups’, that is locals and their dogs demand that the last bit of green is for their ‘recreation’ and not Australian flora and fauna. Pet owners allow that their roaming dogs destroy the last small fragmented refuges where native wildlife can survive.

    Recently a council voted to fence dogs out of the park "to manage the growing dog population in the municipality." There are “problems with dog behaviour…They (swamp wallabies) are threatened and chased and killed by dogs.”

    Anger and vandalism followed. Local pet owners demand to "make the park off-leash for dogs.” The dispute requires 'conflict experts’ from outside to get involved.

    In a place where everything is 'dog friendly’ and where half of Australian households own at least one dog, they implicitly ‘voted with their paws’ to be 'wildlife unfriendly'.

    * Conflict experts called in following a dispute over a dog fence in Coburg >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/mer

    * A 'balancing act' as council votes to fence dogs out of park, sparking safety concerns >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/mer
    #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #UserGroups #dogs #pets #roaming #DogOwners #TheBush #recreation #parks #FOMC #fences #UrbanEcology #extinction #councils #WildlifeUnfriendly

    #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #usergroups #dogs #pets
  5. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    A yearning for the idyllic forest scene and cellulose factories

    When they want to ‘get away from it all’ and ‘go for a drive’ through nature, the idyllic forest scene, they are in denial that the romantic craving for the bush turns out to be industrial plantations.

    “Nature ... is a planned product of the forestry industry, a purely wisely placed storehouse for cellulose production, which is readily apparent.”
    - The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil, 1930

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_
    #forests #forestryCorporation #forestry #CelluloseFactories #LoggingIndustry #landscapes #TheBush #plantations #monoculture #RawMaterials #extractivism #biodiversity #nature #book #literature

    #forests #forestrycorporation #forestry #cellulosefactories #thebush #plantations
  6. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    A place where a group of adults are “hunting for kids” because somebody has smashed their car window.

    "A murdered Indigenous teenager who was chased into bushland and beaten with a metal pole was the victim of a heinous racial attack that has torn at the fabric of society, his mother says."
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news
    #children #schoolboy #adults #Perth #Australia #violence #crime #IndigenousPeoples #cars #TheBush

    #children #schoolboy #adults #perth #australia #violence
  7. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    A combustible world: "Any city can burn now. "
    21st-century fires

    "The intensity of the fire ...burned basically the same way as the ones in LA. You had the drought, you had the fuel, you had the wind and that’s all you need. That can be recreated anywhere in the world. Any city can burn now. "

    "Don’t look at the fire, look at the wind. If the wind is blowing over you, it means the embers are, too. The fire could be 2 miles away, but if the wind is toward you, the embers are, too, and act accordingly."
    >>
    theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

    "Fire fuel "used to be thought of as "the bush" leaf litter, grasses, shrubs, trees, in short Australian biodiversity. Now it is also houses, all the stuff and the petrol derived products and infrastructure.

    Bushfire fuel classification overview >>
    afac.com.au/docs/default-sourc
    #fires #bushfires #Fossilfuels #combustion #wind #cars #HomoFagrans #energy #petrotopia #plastic #housing #cities #sprawl #flammable #fuel #chemicals #trauma #vegetation #biodiversity #TheBush #HazardReduction #ClimateBreakdown

    #fires #bushfires #fossilfuels #combustion #wind #cars
  8. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    The entire NSW coastline - gridlocked by tourists

    "They use the bush as a toilet"
    "Beach towns struggle with over tourism. Extra pollution, traffic and waste is putting a strain on local infrastructure." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2024-12-27/bea
    #tourism #OverTourism #congestion #traffic #pollution #christmas #HolidayCrowds #liveable #NSW #coast #communities #TheBush

    #tourism #overtourism #congestion #traffic #christmas #holidaycrowds
  9. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Are Australia's 4WD enthusiasts wrecking the bush?
    From bushwalking to ALL TERRAIN driving in the bush

    "4WD touring is booming and it's putting unprecedented pressure on the bush. The increased traffic is also degrading many of the tracks...Many of the tracks are historical — initially built for logging, gold mining or firebreaks — and are not designed for four-wheel driving. These tracks proliferate, they very rarely disappear."

    "Something bogs up, drivers go round it, and it gets bigger, damages vegetation and spreads weeds and pests...The rules for four-wheel drives are the same whether you're in a national park or in a state forest, you're supposed to drive them on a road. You're not supposed to drive them around in the bush, willy nilly."

    "Seasonal closures can also protect areas at risk of degradation.The spokesperson says 181 infringements totalling more than $60,000 were given to people caught driving cars or riding trail bikes illegally off-road or in restricted areas last year."

    Déjà vu of SUVs being washed in a perennial stream (Orara River) on the eastern slopes of the Dorrigo Plateau and nappies deposited on river rocks.
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2024-07-13/4wd
    #conservation #NPs #TheBush #NSW #TheDrive #Bellingen #Orara #rivers #NeverNever #SUVs #ATV #OffRoad #DomesticTourism #rubbish #weeds #toilets #degradation #car #culture #regulation #bushwalking #biodiversity #habitat #climate

    #conservation #nps #thebush #nsw #thedrive #bellingen
  10. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    There is no magic “poop fairy” to pick up the dog droppings

    Flags planted in dog feces? The proliferation of dog droppings in parks, yards and neighborhoods is a problem in many locations around the world, and one that may only have worsened during the pandemic, when many people adopted new dogs."
    >>
    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/j
    #dogs #pets #faeces #meat #waste #NatureReserves #Bellingen #TheBush #beach #wildlife

    #dogs #pets #faeces #meat #waste #naturereserves
  11. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Sydney's mass tree vandalism
    “This is happening all over the country, all of the time."

    "A disjunct between weak punishment and the crime, a colonial-settler impulse to control native bush, an overriding sense, perhaps, that public property has less value than private – impels them, regardless, to vandalise majestic trees."

    "The novelist and celebrated nature writer James Bradley says the “hatred of trees” is a settler-colonial legacy of the desire to impose order on the natural landscape and a symptom of increased alienation from nature."

    “Trees have helped shape and sustain human cultures for hundreds of thousands of years. Many Indigenous cultures recognise this with systems of reciprocity that connect them to trees, within which trees are not just living beings, but actually relatives or kin. That connection has been disrupted by the processes of extraction that have seen most of the world’s forests cleared, and the hostility to trees you hear when people complain about their messiness, or them blocking their view."

    “The more science learns about trees, the more we realise that even though they exist upon quite different timescales to humans, they are beings, with the ability to communicate and learn. And that they aren’t just good for the environment, they’re good for us, and just being around them makes us calmer, improves our mood, and makes us feel more connected to the world around us.”
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    James Bradley
    cityoftongues.com/about/
    #HarbourViews #PropertyValues #Sydney #views #LaneCove #CastleCove #crime #entitlement #SettlerSociety #legacy #BotanicalColonisation #LoggingIndustry #values #extractivism #reciprocity #NativeForests #biodiversity #wildlife #TheBush

    #harbourviews #propertyvalues #sydney #views #lanecove #castlecove
  12. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Dumping of cats and dogs a danger to native wildlife

    "Cats not accepted at RSPCA NSW shelters for another month amid vaccine shortage. The decision has prompted concern that the illegal dumping of unwanted animals could increase. Invasive Species Council conservation officer Candice Bartlett said a rise in feral cat populations could have devastating impacts on native wildlife...Each year in Australia, cats that are allowed to roam kill 323 million native animals."

    abc.net.au/news/2023-11-27/cat
    #pets #cats #dogs #OverCrowding #consumers #ThrowAwaySociety #dumping #ferals #ChristmasHolidays #wildlife #TheBush #conservation #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis

    #pets #cats #dogs #overcrowding #consumers #dumping
  13. Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @[email protected] ·

    #LGBTQ+ #bars are #closing across the country. But in #NYC, they are #thriving.

    “I felt #tingly inside,” said #NikkeAlleyne, now the #coowner of #TheBush, a new #lesbian #bar that opened in #Brooklyn in late April. “I felt so #safe and so #seen.”

    #Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #NewYorkCity #Entertainment #NightLife #Representation #Culture

    gothamist.com/arts-entertainme

    #culture #representation #nightlife #entertainment #newyorkcity #newyork