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bertbohosouth.bsky.social @bertbohosouth.bsky.social · 13h

Yep, it’s crazy, it’s devoid of evidence based decisions, it’s ‘out of sight - out of mind’ and it’s all too common across Victoria.

‘Fuel reduction burning’ is a perfect example of thinking in words - empty words. The practice has little relation to reality on the ground.

Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 20h

FFMV plans to burn 60,000ha in Snowy NP.

'Just as decades of public pressure forced the logging industry under tighter rules & eventually brought it down under its own weight, we’ll only bring accountability to fire through the same relentless scrutiny & pressure.'

www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...

The Burning Industry is Out of Control

Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) has been working to protect East Gippsland's forests from logging since 1993. Using citizen science, non-violent direct action, political lobbying and public educat...

www.geco.org.au

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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 20h

FFMV plans to burn 60,000ha in Snowy NP.

'Just as decades of public pressure forced the logging industry under tighter rules & eventually brought it down under its own weight, we’ll only bring accountability to fire through the same relentless scrutiny & pressure.'

www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...

The Burning Industry is Out of Control

Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) has been working to protect East Gippsland's forests from logging since 1993. Using citizen science, non-violent direct action, political lobbying and public educat...

www.geco.org.au

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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 1d

No transparency. No science. Just targets.

www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...

The Burning Industry is Out of Control

Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) has been working to protect East Gippsland's forests from logging since 1993. Using citizen science, non-violent direct action, political lobbying and public educat...

www.geco.org.au

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 5d

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Victorian Forest Alliance @vicforestalliance.bsky.social · 7d

🌳 GIANT TREE WEBINAR THIS THURSDAY 🌳

www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/vfa_webinar_...

Come along to this amazing webinar with Giant Tree Hunter Brett Mifsud, who will be talking about his work exploring the southern forests for giant trees, and why these trees are so important.

RSVP essential!

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 9d

Please watch

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 14d

🔴Why logged forests burn hotter & spread fires faster
🔴How post-fire practices worsen biodiversity loss & community risk
🔵Strategies to reduce fire danger while protecting species
#nature
📆October 09, 2025
⏰6pm - 7pm
📌Online via zoom

Information & registration:
www.nature.org.au/logging_and_...

Logging and Bushfire Risk: An Online Conversation with Professor David Lindenmayer AO

Since 1955 the Nature Conservation Council has been the voice for nature in NSW. We advocate and campaign to protect nature and for a safe climate.

www.nature.org.au

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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 16d

The spelling is the least problematic aspect of this ad (in a Grand Designs magazine issue with a sustainability focus).

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 22d

#PossumArchaeology 🏺

Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 22d

The edges of this tree-hollow and the branch next to it have been worn smooth by what must be generations of #possums coming and going.
The tree is a pencil pine - one of #Tasmania's endemic treasures. These slow-growing mountain giants can live for 1000 years. That's a lot of possums. 🌲 #trees

A tree trunk with a large hole in it, above a roaring river. The edges of the bottom of the entrance to the tree-hollow, and the branch immediately outside of, are a smooth peachy brown, in contrast to the grey brown of the rest of the wood

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Gippsland Environment Group @geg101.bsky.social · 27d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Critically Endangered Glossy Black Cockatoos have an extremely restricted diet. In East Gippsland they only feed on Black She-oaks. "Planned" burning by Forest Fire Management Vic is deliberately destroying their habitat. Read more:
www.geg.org.au/glossy-black...

Australia’s quietest cockatoo is running out of trees. We have betrayed its gentle curiosity | Joseph Earp

As logging, fire and shrinking habitat push the glossy black cockatoo closer to the brink, we don’t just risk losing a species, but a world of wonder

www.theguardian.com

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 21d

Government required to create plan to protect greater glider in major legal win for Wilderness Society

Murray Watt agrees recovery plans for greater glider, ghost bat, lungfish and sandhill dunnart were not made by successive governments * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The federal environment minister, Murray Watt, has conceded that successive governments acted unlawfully when they failed to create mandatory recovery plans for native species threatened with extinction in a major legal win for one of Australia’s largest environmental organisations. The Wilderness Society has been successful in federal court proceedings it launched in March that sought to compel the minister to make recovery plans for species including the greater glider and the ghost bat. Continue reading...

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Wilderness Society @wilderness.org.au · 21d

📣 #BREAKING: We’ve settled our case against Australia’s Environment Minister!

Backed by our supporters & represented by Environmental Justice Australia, we took bold legal action to fight for threatened species, and won! #auspol #wildoz

Two people standing outdoors, with expressions of determination, one holding a red and black feather, next to a caption that reads 'BREAKING: We took bold legal action for threatened species. And we won.' Photo credit: James Thomas Photography.

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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 22d

The gall from a company that for decades refused to see the writing on the wall and ignored every attempt by environment groups to help find alternative solution
#nature #trees #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Paper mill sues Victoria for $402m over alleged timber supply failure

Paper Australia alleges the state government failed to provide enough raw materials for its Maryvale mill, causing substantial loss and damage.

www.abc.net.au

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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 22d

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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Paper mill sues Victoria for $402m over alleged timber supply failure

Paper Australia alleges the state government failed to provide enough raw materials for its Maryvale mill, causing substantial loss and damage.

www.abc.net.au

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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 22d

Maybe the most visceral response I’ve read so far.

Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 23d

‘The philosopher Judith Butler and the Middle East historian Ussama Makdisi are perhaps the only two notified people who have spoken publicly about the email they received. Butler sees the silence of the others as a sign of fear.’

@mashagessen.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

Opinion | I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 23d

I interviewed historian @emmashortis.bsky.social on the particulars of American fascism, comparisons with Nazism, the global crisis of democracy, and Australia's options. None of this is particularly cheery stuff, but you might find some clarity in it.

youtu.be/MM6cXjTBJ0U?...

Historian Emma Shortis on American fascism and Australia's options

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 25d

#Dailyglimmer Out walking and needed seek shelter when hit by a rare thunderstorm over the Derwent Estuary, Nipaluna . Disappeared as fast as it arrived

Mixed clouds with streaks of rain over a bay with low lying hills

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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 24d

In 2021, Greenpeace looked in depth at all the current forest certification schemes.

It called PEFC 'a weak and industry-dominated certification scheme, especially in comparison to the FSC'.

No state native forest logging agency has been able to obtain FSC certification.

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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 24d

Then we have a director of merchandise at Bunnings saying this: PEFC-certified forests indicate sustainable management.

Well, that's a big claim.

'Cam Rist, Bunnings director of merchandise, said it sold tree ferns and "tree ferns products" that were salvage harvested, as well as ones grown from spores.

He said their policy was to only sell Tasmanian tree ferns salvaged from PEFC-certified forests, indicating sustainable management.'

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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 24d

There is simply no evidence for this oft-repeated assertion.

Latest ABARES data for hardwood imports (in cubic metres) shows they have largely flatlined for over a decade.

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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 24d

This claim is by Sue Baker, a University of Tasmania conservation biologist and associate professor of forest sustainability science.

Claim by a University of Tasmania academic: ' If we're not producing our timber from forests in Tasmania or in Australia, we're importing our timber products from other countries and often they're developing countries and [it's] illegally harvested timber that's coming into Australia.'

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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 24d

My jaw dropped at some of the pro-logging claims made by individuals in this article. And not from people you'd expect.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Why Tasmanian ferns hundreds of years old are on sale in UK garden centres

Thousands of native tree ferns are harvested from Tasmania's forests for export each year. Some say the trade saves ferns from destruction, while others accuse the industry of greenwashing.

www.abc.net.au

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Animal Justice Party @animaljusticeparty.bsky.social · 24d

VIC GOVT STOPS FUNDING FOR WOMBATS

The work that Mange Management does is truly life saving for wombats.

But recently, the government stopped their modest yearly funding amount to treat these precious native animals.

The funding needs to be urgently reinstated.

#AusPol #Wildlife #Wombats #Fauna

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 26d

If governments want a quick, credible win on productivity and a cleaner set of forward estimates, they should start by ending budget support for native forest logging and backing the parts of the sector that actually generate value. #Auspol

A smart productivity play: Stop subsidising loss-making native forest logging

On 7 September 2025, NSW set the proposed 476,000-hectare boundary for the Great Koala National Park and halted native-forest logging within it (plantation harvesting continues), with formal gazettal ...

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