The Ethical, legal and scientific concerns about aerial shooting of thousand koalas
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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/more-than-a-thousand-koalas-shot-in-aerial-operation-,19679
#Koalas #Biodiversity #AerialShooting #plantations #LoggingImpacts #governance #Australia
Australia gunned down 700 koalas from helicopters
"There are calls for an investigation into the events that led to the deaths of 700 koalas in the state of Victoria recently. Australia’s controversial program of euthanising injured and starving koalas from helicopters will continue in the short-term and then be scaled back following a fresh assessment of the program by a vet. "
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/devastating-photos-captured-after-australia-gunned-down-koalas-from-helicopters-011645578.html
#koalas #conservation #AerialShooting #plantations #LoggingImpacts #WildlifeCulling #AnimalWelfare #Australia
Sniping koalas from helicopters: here’s what’s wrong with Victoria’s unprecedented cull
"Snipers in helicopters have shot more than 700 koalas in the Budj Bim National Park in western Victoria in recent weeks. It’s believed to be the first time koalas have been culled in this way. The species faces a double threat from habitat destruction and bushfire risk. They are considered endangered in New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory."
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https://theconversation.com/sniping-koalas-from-helicopters-heres-whats-wrong-with-victorias-unprecedented-cull-254996
#Koala #conservation #LoggingImpacts #plantations #FossilFuels #cull #governance #BiodiversityCrisis
The great koala - glider national park - logging an environmentally significant area
"The Minns Labor government promised to create a koala national park before the state election more than two years ago, but has not taken a decision on the boundaries and has allowed logging to continue. Between April and July 2024, the surveys detected greater gliders at 82 sites. The government’s analysis estimated the planned park has between 29,693 and 44,211 gliders, with a mean estimate of 36,483."
“...Logging should cease in all state forest areas identified as containing greater gliders.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/17/endangered-greater-gliders-recorded-in-proposed-great-koala-national-park-in-nsw-as-logging-continues
#BiodiversityCrisis #conservation #harm #destruction #NativeForests #koalas #gliders #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #ExtinctionCrisis #governance
"The logging industry is finding ways to get around the so-called ban."
"A loophole in the law banning Victoria's native timber harvesting means logging projects can still go ahead as the state government passes project approval responsibility to local councils."
"How could it be that a local council would have the expertise, the biological and ecological expertise, to approve logging in an area? When you log and regenerate an area of native forest … that same area of forest becomes much more flammable for a prolonged period of time," Professor Lindenmayer said. "I don't think that we should be adding that extra fire burden for rural and regional people to have to deal with."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-03/timber-harvesting-ban-loophole-victoria/105123078
#LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #bushfire #risks #conservation #biodiversity #wildlife #forests #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #council
‘Burning Up the Biosphere'
Use of wood chips for energy generation - in large volumes
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https://environmentalpaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/threat-map-2024-1.pdf
#LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #WoodChips #biodiversity #ecosystems #conservation #forests #energy #ClimateBreakdown
'Plantation' logging is native forest logging in koala habitat
Tuckers Nob Compartment 017 >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwM15WrJpg
#LoggingImpacts #destruction #NSWLogging #FCNSW #koalas #biodiversity #rainforest #The #GreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob
Human rights and environmental violations throughout Australian supply chains ?
Creating a mandatory human rights due diligence regime for Australian companies
"We analysed the human rights commitments of 25 of the top companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), including some of our largest banks and mining companies."
"We found Australian companies have a long way to go in “knowing and showing” a commitment to respect human rights, suggesting an urgent need for reform...It is clear from our research that many large Australian companies are not operating in line with international standards."
"One response could be for Australia to follow the European Union’s lead and create a mandatory human rights due diligence regime. Australian companies must take proactive steps to comply with international standards. Our findings suggest the government should enact a stronger and broader mandatory human rights due diligence law covering all human rights. "
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https://theconversation.com/some-of-australias-largest-companies-are-failing-to-know-and-show-their-respect-for-human-rights-250055
#HumanRights #ModernSlavery #transparency #DueDilligence #EUDR #SupplyChains #environment #pollution #LoggingImpacts #PayGap #ChildLabour #industry #DoingBusiness #mining #banks #energy #insurance #transportation #telecommunication #media #health #pharmaceuticals #governance
Humans are making it increasingly difficult for wildlife to live and reproduce.
Sprawl, accelerated fossil fuel mobility via motor engines and roaming introduced canines makes survival for other than humans risky or impossible. The prosthetic apparatuses of 'man' sends its noisy and polluting tentacles into every nook and cranny where bio-diversity still dwells - 24/7.
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https://theconversation.com/five-ways-humans-have-scuppered-the-love-lives-of-animals-249425
#biodiversity #wildlife #habitat #ecocide #cars #roads #traffic #pets #lawns #machines #pollution #noise #waste #harm #technosphere #HumanDisturbance #extractivism #monoculture #fossilfuels #mowing #deforestation #LoggingImpacts
Logging the great koala national park
"Before the next election round lets make sure The Great Koala National Park is secured. Its the last chance for the survival of our Koala population on the Eastern Seaboard of Australia."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE7NQbRGZ2U
#biodiversity #FCNSW #NSWLogging #governance #harm #destruction #pinecreek #SaveTuckersNob #wildlife #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #LoggingImpacts
'Last chance to see' tourism: See rare or endangered species before they disappear
Bird-tracking apps turning sightings into stampedes
Chasing online alerts with a lot of fossil fuel.
"Almost one in six Australian birds are threatened with extinction."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-15/tourism-industry-twitchers-birdwatching/104919868
#birds #birdwatching #twitchers #overtourism #LoggingImpacts #landclearing #extinction #biodiversity #conservation #TheDrive #SUVs #Fossilfuels #cats #pets
One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction
"Prevalent threats include pollution, dams and water extraction, agriculture and invasive species, with overharvesting also driving extinctions."
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08375-z
Sayer, C.A., Fernando, E., Jimenez, R.R. et al. One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08375-z
#water #extractivism #pollution #extinction #wetland #rivers #governance #GBF #conservation #Biodiversity #wildlife #dragonflies #odonata #insects #LoggingImpacts #agriculture #aquaculture #degradation #herbicides #pesticides #BellingenLogging
How a mayor beat the loggers to turn the place green again
Could Bellingen become a “green municipality”?
"A region battered by predatory logging and ranching...With its forest-gobbling ranchers, bootleg loggers and dodgy sawmill operators, this sprawling township the size of Israel was a big red flag."
“For decades, Paragominas was one of the Amazon’s epicentres of deforestation and timber extraction. That changed in 2008, with the municipal environmental pact, which reduced deforestation by 80%,” says Beto Veríssimo, co-founder of Imazon, a rainforest-based thinktank. ..Controlling deforestation turned the township into a magnet for investment and economic growth.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/07/brazil-amazon-paragominas-deforestation-landgrabs-shootouts-logging-slash-burn-farming-green-sustainability
#deforestation #LoggingImpacts #BellingenLogging #Gleniffer #Amazon #biodiversity #NativeForests #FrontierCommunity #logging #slashandburn #NSWLogging #FarrRight #governance
The black summer bushfires’ toll on the vets and carers helping Australian wildlife
"When the 2019-20 fires erupted Veterinarians and carers responded on the front lines. In December 2019 the sky went black in many parts of Australia. In the following weeks, unprecedented bushfires killed 33 people, destroyed thousands of homes, decimated about 3bn animals and 24m hectares of habitat...Smoke was circumventing the globe."
"The trauma doesn’t go away."
Burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) is causing hotter, drier conditions and is increasing the risk of bushfires.
> Leave fossil fuels in the ground
> Stop incinerating bio-diversity
> Pay vets to treat Australian wildlife injured by bushfires and combustion engine infrastructure impacts.
> Support volunteer carers for wildlife
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/05/australia-black-summer-bushfires-vets-wildlife
#FossilFuels #HumanActivities #petroculture #fires #risks #Bushfires #2019Bushfires #LoggingImpacts #roadkill #wildlife #biodiversity #incineration #trauma #vets #care #volunteers #governance
Confronting devastating destruction
"Since Europeans arrived in Australia, much of the country has become severely degraded."
"Around 40% of our forests and 99% of grasslands have been cut down and cleared, and much of what remains is under threat. Thousands of ecological communities, plants and animal species are threatened with extinction."
"Australia remains a global logging and deforestation hotspot. We have the world’s worst record for mammal extinctions and lead the world in arresting climate and environment protesters. To top it off, a recent study estimated more than 9,000 native Australian animals, mostly invertebrates, have gone extinct since European arrival. That’s between one and three species every week."
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https://theconversation.com/in-2025-lets-make-it-game-on-not-game-over-for-our-precious-natural-world-245761
#LoggingImpacts #LandClearing #deforestation #mining #degradation #extractivism #SettlerSociety #coal #climate #FossilFuels #BiodiversityCrisis #extinction #EcologicalGrief #destruction #conservation #change #Australia #NYE
NSW's native forest logging industry ruled not 'economically viable'.
"The recommendation was made by the NSW Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) in its triennial analysis of the government-owned logging company Forestry Corporation of NSW."
"It found Forestry Corporation's native timber operation had been steadily losing money over the past decade, in part due to delivering timber to sawmills for less than the cost of providing it."
"It also noted concerns about logging making bushfires worse and damaging threatened species' habitat."
"The revelation comes the same week that Forestry Corporation released its annual report, which shows it suffered a $29 million loss in its native logging division in the 2022-2023 financial year. Studies have suggested shutting the industry could bring net economic benefits to the economy"
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/nsw-native-forest-logging-not-economically-viable-report-finds/104721248
#NativeForests #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #degradation #biodiversity #harm #ClimateBreakdown #wildlife #koalas #plantations #StopLoggingKoalaHabitat #bushfires #risks #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction
Criminalising peaceful protesters with draconian laws
“NSW anti-protest laws are anti-democratic and disproportionate, they also raise constitutional and human rights concerns. They must be scrapped.”
"The proposed laws will add financial penalties up to $22,000 for people who obstruct trains, on top of two years imprisonment....Earlier this year, the Human Rights Law Centre’s Protest in Peril report found that the right to protest has been under attack by governments and institutions over the last 20 years, with NSW having introduced the most anti-protest laws. These laws have disproportionately targeted environmental defenders and people advocating for action on climate change."
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https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/anti-protest-laws-slammed
#HumanRights #ProtectProtest #environment #conservation #BiodiversityCrisis #ecocide #democracy #NSW #law #coal #LoggingImpacts #ClimateEmergency
The destruction of the koala habitat in NSW has reached The Washington Post
The government promised a refuge for the endangered marsupial, known as the Great Koala National Park. But 95 percent of the state forests under consideration are still open to logging by the state-owned logging company. “Forestry Corp is going gangbusters logging some of the best koala habitat because they know they are going to be shut out."
"Thousands of koalas died in devastating bushfires five years ago, and many populations were already in decline after a steady drumbeat of logging, housing developments, dog attacks, car strikes and other threats. In 2022, the federal government declared koalas endangered...A parliamentary inquiry warned in 2020 that the marsupials would become extinct by 2050 without bold action."
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/08/koala-national-park-australia-logging/
#koalas #habitat #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #LoggingImpacts #FCNSW #BiodiversityCrisis #marsupials #NSWLogging #plantation #sprawl #cars #dogs #pets #extinction makers
Non-road diesel pollution is unregulated
Non-road diesel use produced 29.5m tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions in 2018, an amount similar in size to Australia’s total industry pollution. Work to regulate one of Australia’s biggest sources of carbon dioxide stalls, FoI documents reveal
“As the biggest industrial user of diesel, the mining industry is the biggest contributor to the health and budget costs of the noxious and particulate pollution that creates,” Woods said. “It’s becoming a pattern for the mining industry to block environmental protections that Australians need and we hope that is not what is happening in this case.”
"The mining sector accounted for 60% of diesel use in Australia, the government’s report said. That report estimated that atmospheric concentrations of NO2 and PM2.5 particulates from non-road diesel engines in 2018 resulted in combined years lost for those exposed at 5,387, equating to a cost to society of $1.6bn (in 2021 dollars)."
“Health impacts and costs would continue to be incurred in future years,” it said, adding that accumulated years lost between 2018 and 2063 would exceed 250,000 on current trajectories. We now understand there’s no safe level of air pollution,” Charlesworth said, adding it’s a “solvable problem … You can do something about relatively quickly, and you’d see benefits relatively quickly as well."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/12/work-to-regulate-one-of-australias-biggest-sources-of-carbon-dioxide-stalls-foi-documents-reveal
Non-road diesel engine emissions are the largest source of unregulated air pollution in Australia.>>
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/protection/air-quality/national-clean-air-agreement/evaluation-non-road-diesel-engine-emissions
#GHG #Pollution #mining #construction #agriculture #marine #forestry #LoggingImpacts #coal #diesel #FossilFuels #LoggingImpacts #NonRoadDiesel #machinery #harm #climate #governance #regulation #PublicHealth
The government promised a koala national park. Then their loggers moved in
"Logging inside the Great Koala National Park assessment area is four times more intense when measured by area than in nearby state forests outside the park, and environmentalists say the targeted areas are wreaking maximal environmental damage...New analysis suggests the NSW government’s own logging arm is trashing the forest inside the proposed park." >>
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/the-government-promised-a-koala-national-park-then-the-loggers-moved-in-20241104-p5knro.html ($ wall)
#logging #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NSW #biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #destruction #FCNSW #breaches #SaveTuckersNob #subsidies #bushfires #risks #crime #violence #ResourceFrontiers #offsets #ClimateEmergency #governance
