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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 21h

A great day #geocaching in the Snowy Valleys on the western side of the alps.
Saw the snow on the mountains in the distance.

View North from Reg's Ledge on Mount Mittamatite near Corryong Victoria. In the foreground are large rocky outcrops and yellow wattle trees. Ridgelines of the mountain go down to a green grassy valley with patchwork farms and harvesting. In the distance are more mountain.

Looking across a wide open valley of farmland, green grass and a treelined river. Far off in the distance are the snow covered mountains of the Australian Alps.

A purple and yellow flaxlily flower on the cliff edge of a rocky mountain.

Bright yellow pompom explosions of wattle blossoms in a mountain ash forest.

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 2d

3rd 30 day #hungerstrike for stronger #environment #protection and #biodiversity #conservation laws, protection of all #threatenedspecies and #habitats and no more #extinctions will begin on the 20th Oct. Daily 3hr morning vigils infront of APH.
#Hangry4Change H4C3

Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 4d

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Glow

Canberra city lights, at last light, glowing on the clouds, from Mount Ainslie.

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations ❤️

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 5d

I wish reforms were based on what's actually required to remedy problems, rather than "deals"

@euanritchie.bsky.social, @drphilmccormack.bsky.social & I reiterate what's required in EPBC reforms to protect Australia's precious natural heritage & to address our intertwined climate & nature crises

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Nov 22

1/ Thank you for reading our article on
'5 things we need to see in Australia’s new nature laws'

Here's a 🧵of some extra info & context ahead of DCCEEW's 2 public webinars on the proposed EPBC Act reforms (on 23 & 28 Nov)

5 things we need to see in Australia's new nature laws

A group of prominent environmental scientists devised this list of 5 things we must see in Australia’s new national environmental laws, if we are to avoid calamity and hasten recovery.

theconversation.com

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 5d

The day was superb. It took only a week to get back to take a photo of these bright colourful beehives. But I wouldn't eat the honey harvested from genetically modified canola.

Landscape photo. Foreground has about 15 stacks bright beehives in a rainbow of colours. Behind them is a yellow field of canola flowers. Background is a village at the foot of a mountain. Blue sky with white puffs of clouds

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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 6d

Look no further for armchair #ClimateCare than Knitting Nannas #ClimateAction of the week right here each week.

Action of the Week 6 Oct 2025

State and Federal Governments can do much more to protect nature. Here are two easy petitions to sign. Nature Conservation Council petition: End Native Forest Logging in NSW Australian Conservation…

knittingnannas.org

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 6d

These are 2 of the 4 fur kids i'm looking after at the moment. 6 month old puppies are a handful, but are the cutest.
I believe the energy of just one of them could power the whole of Snowy Hydro!
#housesitting

Brown puppy lying in the grass giving the phone a funny look. Poplars with bright green Spring foliage and mountains in the background. Blue sky with a few clouds above.

Shiny black puppy looking to the right, sitting on bright green mossy grass. Trees and blue sky in the background.

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 6d

I do not trust Environment Minister Murray Watt to come even close to the protections nature needs to maintain the biodiversity required to save, conserve, and recover threatened species and habitats. He can't, it compromises his relationship with gas, coal, logging, fish farms, etc...

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Marns🌿🍉🐸 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 8d

Either the trees still exist or they don’t.

Gemini coal project has been illegally clearing koala habitat since June.
#auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fiery Senate exchange reveals investigation into coal firm allegedly clearing endangered greater glider habitat

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called environment department bureaucrats ‘weak’ - though later withdrew the remark

www.theguardian.com

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 8d

Pt15 Climate Action Snowshoe Expedition is up on Patreon.
I discuss getting asthma from the summer 2019/20 fires and finding out 6mths later in the middle of a remote section of the alps. The physical costs we suffer because of government inaction on climate change.
www.patreon.com/posts/140541...

Pt15 Climate Action Snowshoe Expedition | Terra Roam

Get more from Terra Roam on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Marns🌿🍉🐸 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 8d

This civilisation is the product of ecological fraud: stolen habitats, exhausted resources and exterminated species. Economic growth itself is an illusion given that it is merely the result of a series of heists that bankrupted the planet.

George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 9d

Civilisations collapse because they don’t even know what a collapse is. It is simply not in their DNA to understand it
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 8d

Feels like more than 2yrs of Israeli oppression on Palestinians. Feels more like decades.
Jewish youth camps in Australia have been teaching them how to kill Muslims since last century.

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 10d

“Baudin’s or bauxite – we can’t have both”

It’s a stark warning … but Alcoa’s proposed expansions to its bauxite mining in WA’s jarrah forests will be catastrophic for the endangered Baudin’s black cockatoo.
#wildoz #ausbirds #ozplants #bauxite #conservation

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Baudin’s or bauxite?’: stark warning black cockatoo won’t survive mining expansion

BirdLife WA calls consequences of Alcoa’s proposals to clear 11,000ha of jarrah forest ‘irreversible and catastrophic’ for endangered bird

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 11d

"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved." - Dr Jane Goodall

Our tribute to Jane's incredible career and profound legacy 👇

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 13d

A solemn day as we pay our respects to Dr Jane Goodall and her extraordinary legacy. Vale, Jane, we promise to keep fighting for all that you loved and fought for too!

theconversation.com/only-if-we-h... With @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social, Marissa Parrott, @drvanessapirotta.bsky.social & Zara Bending.

‘Only if we help shall all be saved’: Jane Goodall showed we can all be part of the solution

Jane Goodall showed tremendous courage in charting her own course as a pioneering researcher – and working to spread hope wherever she went.

theconversation.com

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 11d

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Relax

Bushwalkers relaxing in the afternoon sun beside 2 blue tunnel tents. Foreground is a mossy snowgum trunk. Background is sunlight slanting across the mountains.

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 11d

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Relax

A moss covered bench beside a leafy track in a rainforest.

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 11d

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Relax

A sleeping red heeler dog on a white blanket with a bone beside his paw.

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 12d

Great news!

Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 12d

Marinette!!! Please get through. Only 1 left sailing. Gaza desperately needs the siege broken. Felt so impotent just watching. Our government shames our nation for its lame concerns when it could have acted to stop the genocide at any time.

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 12d

*pushys

Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 12d

I missed the @birdlifeoz.bsky.social webinar last night because I was in this pub chatting with locals about climate change.
This pub took me down memory lane. In 1989 4 friends and I rode our pushes from Cooma to Corryong, via Cabramurra, for Duke of Edinburgh Awards, camping here on the way.

130 year old Tooma Inn at the western foothills of the Australian Alps. A classic pioneer style brick building with a generous patio between rooms at either end. 2 entry door in front. A few green shrubs. Brickwork freshly painted light cream. Dark red corrugated iron roof. 2 chimneys at either end. Telstra phone box, with orange roof, out the front. A locals farm vehicle next to the phone box. Large, old disiduous tree about to bud for Spring. Blue sky and clouds above.

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you. I appreciate your support. I'm saving up to buy him out. I want control of the book about the walk around Australia. If can sell 2000 copies it covers all his publishing costs. If i buy those i can sell at markets 🔥

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · 13d

He gives me really bad anxiety. He took advantage of it being my first book and gave me an unfair deal. I didn't know until talking to other authors. I actually feel scared to talk to him. I might not control my anger and loose royalties along with already losing the rights to my story.

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