Ron Avery
@ronavery.bsky.social
Biodiversity Information Systems, NSW BioNet, data and other stuff that's important
Just sharing work we are doing to organise and publish biodiversity data here in NSW Aust.
Integrated vegetation data - It starts with 65,000 Std vegetation plots used to generate a plant community type classification. PCTs provide the main info framework.
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/anima...
Integrated vegetation data - It starts with 65,000 Std vegetation plots used to generate a plant community type classification. PCTs provide the main info framework.
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/anima...
Integrated BioNet Vegetation Data for New South Wales | Biodiversity | Environment and Heritage
NSW Integrated BioNet Vegetation Data provides a digital inventory and map of native vegetation communities across New South Wales.
www.environment.nsw.gov.au
September 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Just sharing work we are doing to organise and publish biodiversity data here in NSW Aust.
Integrated vegetation data - It starts with 65,000 Std vegetation plots used to generate a plant community type classification. PCTs provide the main info framework.
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/anima...
Integrated vegetation data - It starts with 65,000 Std vegetation plots used to generate a plant community type classification. PCTs provide the main info framework.
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/anima...
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trying to explain Biodiversity Data Space for Biodiversity Meets Data project 😱 @bmd-project.eu #dataspace #BMDexplained
🎥 This week in #BMDexplained: In this video, Sharif Islam explains the challenges of integrating biodiversity data.
🔗 Watch to learn more about BMD's Biodiversity Data Space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3EE...
@sharifx.bsky.social | @naturalis.bsky.social
🔗 Watch to learn more about BMD's Biodiversity Data Space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3EE...
@sharifx.bsky.social | @naturalis.bsky.social
How will BMD improve accessibility to biodiversity data?
YouTube video by Biodiversity Meets Data
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
trying to explain Biodiversity Data Space for Biodiversity Meets Data project 😱 @bmd-project.eu #dataspace #BMDexplained
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The Israeli government is depraved. It's deliberately starving and murdering children. The world, and Australia, must make a stronger stand with sanctions. The people of Australia demand it.
UN secretary-general says Israel’s war on Gaza is intensifying ‘with atrocious levels of death and destruction’.
‘Killing for fun’: Israeli strikes kill 76, no aid yet for northern Gaza
UN secretary-general says Israel’s war on Gaza is intensifying ‘with atrocious levels of death and destruction’.
bit.ly
May 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The Israeli government is depraved. It's deliberately starving and murdering children. The world, and Australia, must make a stronger stand with sanctions. The people of Australia demand it.
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Which ought not to be news to anyone paying even modest attention, but these are professionals, doing it thoroughly.
March 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Which ought not to be news to anyone paying even modest attention, but these are professionals, doing it thoroughly.
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If you haven't been on Salmon Watch, I've pulled together a quick timeline in this piece.
The salmon farming industry is now being used to make alarming changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act — no longer solely a 'Tassie' issue, but a national one.
The salmon farming industry is now being used to make alarming changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act — no longer solely a 'Tassie' issue, but a national one.
Labor will tomorrow introduce changes to environmental protection laws for the benefit of the salmon farming industry in Tasmania. How on earth did we get here?
Dead salmon, dying skates: How Tasmania was thrown into the election spotlight
One month after dead fish washed up on beaches outside Hobart, Anthony Albanese will amend environmental laws to protect the salmon farming industry in Tasmania.
www.crikey.com.au
March 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
If you haven't been on Salmon Watch, I've pulled together a quick timeline in this piece.
The salmon farming industry is now being used to make alarming changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act — no longer solely a 'Tassie' issue, but a national one.
The salmon farming industry is now being used to make alarming changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act — no longer solely a 'Tassie' issue, but a national one.
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How vulnerable are #amphibians to extreme heat? 🐸🌡️
Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally.
See the thread below for a digest 🧵
Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Nature
Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally.
See the thread below for a digest 🧵
Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Nature
March 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
How vulnerable are #amphibians to extreme heat? 🐸🌡️
Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally.
See the thread below for a digest 🧵
Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Nature
Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally.
See the thread below for a digest 🧵
Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Nature
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The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stone.
Society has changed before at the scale we need it to today: but that change was never catalyzed by presidents, PMs, or CEOs of the richest companies of the time.
The fossil fuel age won’t end until we ordinary people demand it does.
Society has changed before at the scale we need it to today: but that change was never catalyzed by presidents, PMs, or CEOs of the richest companies of the time.
The fossil fuel age won’t end until we ordinary people demand it does.
BP shifts course, boosting fossil fuel investments and cutting renewables
BP said on Wednesday it would increase annual oil and gas investment to $10 billion, returning the focus to fossil fuels, as part of CEO Murray Auchincloss' efforts to boost returns and improve financial performance.
www.reuters.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stone.
Society has changed before at the scale we need it to today: but that change was never catalyzed by presidents, PMs, or CEOs of the richest companies of the time.
The fossil fuel age won’t end until we ordinary people demand it does.
Society has changed before at the scale we need it to today: but that change was never catalyzed by presidents, PMs, or CEOs of the richest companies of the time.
The fossil fuel age won’t end until we ordinary people demand it does.
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Due to the impeccable timing of a delayed official press release, you probably haven’t heard that 40% of corals on the southern Great Barrier Reef died in 2024 due to record-breaking heat exposure.
www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...
www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...
Surveys show widespread Great Barrier Reef coral loss
Researchers say warming oceans threaten world’s reefs
www.voanews.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Due to the impeccable timing of a delayed official press release, you probably haven’t heard that 40% of corals on the southern Great Barrier Reef died in 2024 due to record-breaking heat exposure.
www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...
www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...
Congratulations on the release of the NVIS V7 data set (national vegetation map). www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/...
Now includes NSW best data (State Vegetation Type Map and plant community type classification)
#nswBioNet #NVIS
Now includes NSW best data (State Vegetation Type Map and plant community type classification)
#nswBioNet #NVIS
December 19, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Congratulations on the release of the NVIS V7 data set (national vegetation map). www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/...
Now includes NSW best data (State Vegetation Type Map and plant community type classification)
#nswBioNet #NVIS
Now includes NSW best data (State Vegetation Type Map and plant community type classification)
#nswBioNet #NVIS
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Coral “IVF”:
Releasing a million larvae had no effect on population size after 30 weeks, compared to experimental controls with natural replenishment. research repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/direct-seeding-of-mass-cultured-coral-larvae-is-not-an-effective-
December 14, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Coral “IVF”:
Releasing a million larvae had no effect on population size after 30 weeks, compared to experimental controls with natural replenishment. research repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/direct-seeding-of-mass-cultured-coral-larvae-is-not-an-effective-
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This piece was a genuine joy to write. I learned so much from co-authors Sophus zu Ermgassen, Harrison Carter, Henrike Schulte, @ejmilnergulland.bsky.social, and our brilliant leader Hannah Wauchope.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
What is a unit of nature? Measurement challenges in the emerging biodiversity credit market | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Bending the curve of biodiversity loss requires the business and financial sectors to disclose and reduce their biodiversity impacts and help fund nature recovery. This has sparked interest in developing generalizable, standardized measurements of ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:11 AM
This piece was a genuine joy to write. I learned so much from co-authors Sophus zu Ermgassen, Harrison Carter, Henrike Schulte, @ejmilnergulland.bsky.social, and our brilliant leader Hannah Wauchope.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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“Achieving ‘net zero’ no longer means what we meant by it. If we're going to count on them to mop up our historical emissions, we can't at the same time use them to offset future fossil fuel emissions” says Myles Allen to @eroston.bsky.social
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December 5, 2024 at 8:27 AM
“Achieving ‘net zero’ no longer means what we meant by it. If we're going to count on them to mop up our historical emissions, we can't at the same time use them to offset future fossil fuel emissions” says Myles Allen to @eroston.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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