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BellingenNSW

The Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk

Intensifying the throughput rate with a series of soaring walkways through the Gondwana Rainforest

The $56.4 million investment in Dorrigo National Park will create “accessible, engaging and immersive experiences for visitors. The 4-day walking track will “connect people with nature... The new 46-km multi-day walk along the rugged escarpment within Dorrigo and Bindarri national parks, includes hiker camps, pedestrian bridges and lookouts.”

The review of environmental factors for the Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk is available for public comment
>> until 24 February 2025. >>
www2.environment.nsw.gov.au/to
nsw.gov.au/have-your-say/dorri

The Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk project has the potential to put though an extra 200,000 visitors ...>
bellingenshirenews.com/2023/11

There is an information session at the

Gleniffer Hall at 10am on Tuesday 11 February

at which staff from National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) will outline the draft review of environmental factors (REF) for the Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk.

Dorrigo escarpment, Gondwana Rainforest without clutter
#biodiversity#rainforest#Gondwana
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Doktor Overcomma :vepi:

"The earliest unequivocal dinosaur fossils appear in the Carnian (∼230 Ma) of southern South America and Africa, leading most authors to propose southwestern Gondwana as the likely center of origin. [...] Our results suggest that the archosaur radiation also took place within low-latitude Gondwana following the end-Permian extinction before lineages dispersed across Pangaea [...]"
cell.com/current-biology/fullt
#Pangaea #Gondwana

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

A new twist in an old origin story: Earliest #dinosaurs may have emerged in the Amazon phys.org/news/2025-01-story-ea paper: cell.com/current-biology/fullt #paleoart by @markwitton

"the earliest dinosaurs likely emerged in a hot equatorial region in what was then the supercontinent #Gondwana—an area of land that encompasses the Amazon, Congo, & Sahara today... the may have been well adapted to hot, arid environments... #sauropods seemed to retain their preference, keeping to lower latitudes"

illustration of a slender dinosaur
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

#Fossil Discovery Rewrites Global #Dinosaur History sciencealert.com/fossil-discov paper: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/ar

"Ahvaytum bahndooiveche is now the oldest-known dinosaur from #Laurasia, the Northern Hemisphere land mass of the late Paleozoic supercontinent #Pangea... That age places it in a similar time period to #dinosaurs of Pangea's Southern Hemisphere land mass, #Gondwana, which were thought to be the world's first by a long shot."

artistic reconstruction of a small bipedal dinosaur in a horsetail forest among large salamander-like animals
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NSW.Biodiversity

Takayna’s forests

"Old-growth forests (forests unscathed by industrial-scale human development) are complex places. “They have structural components that are completely absent from a forest that could be 150 or 200 years old, so they’re essential for biodiversity,” says Prof Hugh Possingham, a conservation researcher and Queensland’s former chief scientist. Achieving such structural ecological complexity takes aeons">>
theguardian.com/environment/20

Land use: Arthur-Pieman Conservation Area, destruction by all-terrain vehicles
discover.abc.net.au/index.html
#Rainforest #oldgrowth #Tasmania #Gondwana #conservation #biodiversity #ATV #destruction

The Guardian · Masked owls, wild devils and giant crayfish: inside the ancient forests of Tasmania’s TakaynaBy Elfy Scott
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Australian Geographic

This footprint is one of 24 dinosaur prints found on Victoria’s Bass Coast, proving dinosaurs once roamed polar environments! 🦕

The tracks were created by theropods and ornithopods about 125 million years ago during the early Cretaceous, when Australia and Antarctica were connected as part of the landmass Gondwana.

Discover the details of what researchers have learned about dinosaurs from these prints… ausgeo.co/polardinos

📷 Anthony Martin

#dinosaur #dinosaurs #dino #ancient #history #gondwana #seeaustralia #ancientanimals #megafauna #animals #environment
#academia #research #academicchatter #history #histodon #nature #wildlife #science #scientist

A rocky surface with numerous cracks. A scale card placed at the bottom for size comparison.
Fossilized dinosaur footprint on a rock surface, outlined in yellow, with a scale bar and measurement tool placed below for size reference.
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Tropical #plants discovered in Tasmania's ancient Polar Forest
phys.org/news/2024-09-tropical

The non-flowering plants of a near-polar #forest in East #Gondwana, Tasmania, Australia, during the Early #Eocene Climatic Optimum bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.co

Dr. Miriam Slodownik: "This discovery offers rare insights into a time when global temperatures were much higher than today. #Tasmania was much closer to the South Pole, but the warm global #climate allowed lush forests to thrive in these regions."

Photo of a woman scientist next to a rock outcrop in a forest, pointing to a darker piece of rock
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Written in Music

Nieuws: Returning, dream: het nieuwe album Paradise Cinema verwacht
writteninmusic.com/nieuws/retu

Written in MusicReturning, dream: het nieuwe album Paradise Cinema verwacht | Written in MusicOp 13 september verschijnt met returning, dream het tweede album van het Londense Paradise Cinema, het op de ‘Vierde Wereld’ geïnspireerde project van multi-instrumentalist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet/Szun Waves) met bijdragen van Khadim Mbaye, Tons Sambe en Laurence Pike. Terwijl Wyllie’s andere projecten zich bewegen tussen hechte elektronica, breedbeeldminimalisme en geïmproviseerde omgevingsgeluiden, bevat ‘returning, dream’ […]
#Music#Eigentijds#ParadiseCinema
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Idiotfruit and tree #kangaroos: here’s why the ancient rainforests of #Queensland’s #WetTropics are so distinctive theconversation.com/idiotfruit

Estimating co-#extinction threats in terrestrial ecosystems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/fu

"These mountainous #rainforests are a relic of the ancient continent of #Gondwana, dating back million of years when #Australia and parts of #Antarctica were covered in #rainforest. While much of the rest of Australia has dried out, the Wet #Tropics have stayed wet."

photo of a lizard's head
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michael

5-JUL-2024
#Gondwana’s ultimate hunter – New giant fossil tetrapod found in #Namibia

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science #evolution #ecology #fossils

EurekAlert!Gondwana’s ultimate hunter – New giant fossil tetrapod found in NamibiaAfter three years of meticulous study, an international team of researchers has announced the discovery of a fossilised giant basal tetrapod in Namibia's arid heartland in Nature. A basal tetrapod is an early four-legged vertebrate with fingers and toes, which lived during the transition from water to land. These ancient carnivores are among the earliest ancestors of all modern animals. This nearly complete 3-meter-long skeleton of an adult, unearthed in the Ugab River valley in Damaraland, is the largest ever discovered. This discovery is significant because it challenges previous assumptions that these early four-legged vertebrates, which lived during the transition from water to land around 280 million years ago, were only found in the northern hemisphere. The new species, named Gaiasia jennyae, provides crucial insights into the early evolution of land-dwelling animals and shows how important southern continents are in future research on this topic.
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Introducing Diuqin lechiguanae paleonerdish.wordpress.com/202 by @Ferwen

"The #fossil record of basal #paravians in #Gondwana is restricted to a relatively small number of taxa. South American paravians are included within the clade #Unenlagiidae... #Diuqin lechiguanae is a new unenlagiine from the Upper #Cretaceous (Santonian) Bajo de la Carpa Formation of the Neuquén Basin of #Neuquén Province in northern #Patagonia, #Argentina."

life reconstruction of a very bird-like dinosaur running
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BellingenNSW

Australian biodiversity conservation and 'fighting the government.'

"A rare legal win for an ecologist over a violent confrontation with NSW loggers exposed years of intimidation from corporate forestry representatives and law enforcement ."

"In environmental science circles, state surveillance and persecution of an ecologist whose findings refute or debunk state land management practices surprises no one. Last year, the International Science Council, a body representing more than 250 organisations, summarised that “the findings of environmental scientists … have long triggered censorship, intimidation, harassment and even violence when these challenge economic interests, political agendas, or ideologies”. It reported that scientists “have been physically attacked, wrongfully detained, and killed for their research and advocacy … threats and attacks are widespread in virtually all fields examining human impact on the environment”.

"A 2021 joint university study of Australian environmental scientists found more than half employed in industry or government “are routinely constrained in communicating scientific evidence on threatened species, mining, logging and other threats to the environment”. In some cases, “scientists self-censor information for fear of damaging their careers, losing funding or being misrepresented in the media. In others, senior managers or ministers’ officers prevented researchers from speaking truthfully on scientific matters...In all logged states, time spent fighting the government has overtaken the fieldwork time of ecologists and forest researchers."
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themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/j
#NSWForestry #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #breaches #violence #GumbainggirCountry #activism #ecology #conservation #science #researchers #Koalas #ThreatenedSpecies #extractivism #mining #logging #defamation #surveillance #CivilDisobedience #CoffsHarbour #Gondwana #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ExtinctionCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #democracy #governance #Australia

The Monthly · Combative natureA rare legal win for an ecologist over a violent confrontation with NSW loggers exposed years of intimidation from corporate forestry representatives and law enforcement
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crhoy.com

¿Amante de la música reggae? Gondwana lo invita a su festival en Guápiles

Los amantes del reggae disfrutarán un día lleno de música el 1 de junio en el festival Gondfest, organizado por I-Locks Labbé, el fundador de Gondwana. En la segunda edición del festival, el cual se realizará en el Campo Ferial Expo Pococí, en Guápiles, participarán artistas nacionales e internacionales. Por ejemplo, Alborosie, El Sha [...]

#Entretenimiento #Espectáculos #Gondwana #Música #Reggae

crhoy.com/entretenimiento/aman

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

This Nearly 50-Foot #Snake Was One of the Largest to Slither the Earth scientificamerican.com/article

Largest known madtsoiid snake from warm #Eocene period of #India suggests intercontinental #Gondwana dispersal nature.com/articles/s41598-024

"Fossilized vertebrae that were found in an Indian coal mine belonged to a gigantic and previously unknown snake species"

fossilized vertebrae and their position in the reconstructed body of a prehistoric snake
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