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BellingenNSWTranslocation experiment: Deaths of seven out of 13 koalas More than half of koalas relocated to NSW forest died in failed government attempt at reintroduction"Translocation and deaths of seven out of 13 koalas in April, with some showing signs of septicaemia, not made public by state government. An attempt by the New South Wales government to reintroduce koalas to a forest in the state’s far south has failed after more than half of the moved animals died, including two with signs of septicaemia, and the remaining marsupials were taken into care." >> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/14/more-than-half-of-koalas-relocated-to-nsw-forest-died-in-failed-government-attempt-at-reintroduction" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/14/more-than-half-of-koalas-relocated-to-nsw-forest-died-in-failed-government-attempt-at-reintroduction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/translocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#translocation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/HabitatDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HabitatDestruction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSWLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a>

BellingenNSW"Wherever land isn’t protected, there are miners, drug traffickers, loggers, illegal fishers and hunters." >> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/05/we-dont-want-contact-because-you-are-bad-loggers-close-in-on-uncontacted-people-in-peruvian-amazon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/05/we-dont-want-contact-because-you-are-bad-loggers-close-in-on-uncontacted-people-in-peruvian-amazon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extractivism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousPeoples</a>

BellingenNSWThe 'world's watching' koalas getting under Aussie wheelsThey are begging motorists to slow down when driving through known koala habitats, but..."Since European colonisation, koala habitat in Australia has been devastated, with approximately 29 million hectares (54 per cent) of forests and woodlands destroyed in NSW alone. Even in recent years, deforestation has continued at an alarming pace...Koalas are facing extinction in NSW by 2050." >> <a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/drivers-warned-after-heartbreaking-find-next-to-road-at-aussie-tourist-town-230610115.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://au.news.yahoo.com/drivers-warned-after-heartbreaking-find-next-to-road-at-aussie-tourist-town-230610115.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/marsupials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marsupials</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Roadkill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roadkill</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/RoadTrauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RoadTrauma</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MidNorthCoast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MidNorthCoast</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSWLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deforestation</a>

BellingenNSWForests, roads and mega fires "More roads are associated with more fires""A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees." >> <a href="https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/</a>Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024) >> <a href="https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingIndustry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSWLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/bushfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bushfires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/timber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#timber</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extractivism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/thinning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thinning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/PrescribedBurns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PrescribedBurns</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FireSuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FireSuppression</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/megafires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#megafires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CounterNarratives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CounterNarratives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousPeoples</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CulturalBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CulturalBurning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecology</a>

BellingenNSWClear-felled forests on erosion-prone land are one bad rainstorm away from disaster. Sash and sediment discharges. "We argue that the standards should set limits to the size and location of clear-felling areas on erosion-susceptible land." >> <a href="https://theconversation.com/one-bad-rainstorm-away-from-disaster-why-proposed-changes-to-forestry-rules-wont-solve-the-slash-problem-258280" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/one-bad-rainstorm-away-from-disaster-why-proposed-changes-to-forestry-rules-wont-solve-the-slash-problem-258280</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/erosion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#erosion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSWLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#regulation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#forests</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FCNSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FCNSW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/plantations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plantations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/DIYDisasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DIYDisasters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/landslides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#landslides</a>

BellingenNSWDegraded: Victoria's alpine and mountain ash forests"Devastating fires, not logging as some claim, are to blame.""'Woefully low' action from government." >> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-22/alpine-forests-in-victoria-in-serious-trouble-scientists-warn/105432774" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-22/alpine-forests-in-victoria-in-serious-trouble-scientists-warn/105432774</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#forests</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/fires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/degradation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#degradation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#governance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingIndustry</a>

BellingenNSW"The native forest logging division of the New South Wales government’s forestry agency has posted a half-yearly loss of almost $15m, prompting renewed questions about the industry’s economic viability."“It makes no sense that taxpayers are subsidising a loss-making business that destroys precious habitat when we should be supporting local communities and viable industries that do have a future.”" >> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/16/nsw-native-forest-logging-division-half-year-report-2024-2025-losses" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/16/nsw-native-forest-logging-division-half-year-report-2024-2025-losses</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingIndustry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FCNSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FCNSW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSWLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TheGreatKoalaNationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#destruction</a>

BellingenNSWNational Environmental Standards Create new, legally enforceable national environmental standards to deliver better environmental protection or continue with the big quarry model this term?"Nature doesn’t negotiate. Nature is a system of systems, and if we take too much from it those systems begin to break down – usually irreversibly." >> <a href="https://theconversation.com/its-a-hard-job-being-environment-minister-heres-an-insiders-view-of-the-key-challenges-facing-murray-watt-256465" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/its-a-hard-job-being-environment-minister-heres-an-insiders-view-of-the-key-challenges-facing-murray-watt-256465</a>Samuel Review <a href="https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/epbc-act-reform/standards" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/epbc-act-reform/standards</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/EPBCAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPBCAct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BiodiversityCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BiodiversityCrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecosystems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#restoration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extractivism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#harm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#water</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extraction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateDisruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateDisruption</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#governance</a>

BellingenNSWNSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue"Professor David Heilpern, a former court magistrate, claims the NSW Forestry Corporation is no longer fit for purpose and should be disbanded. A former magistrate and one of Australia’s most experienced scientists have launched an extraordinary attack on the New South Wales government’s logging agency, describing it as effectively a “criminal organisation” that should be shut down after a string of court convictions.""The corporation has been convicted of more than a dozen environmental offences, including a judgment in the land and environment court last year that found the agency was likely to reoffend and had poor prospects of rehabilitation.They get caught, investigated, prosecuted, a criminal conviction, a fine – which the public pays – and they carry on and do it all again."“There is just no integrity, accountability or justice in this model of operation.”“For the Forestry Corporation, breaking the law and harming the environment and wildlife has become like a game of charades played under the protection of the state." >> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/11/nsw-forestry-agency-called-criminal-organisation-by-critics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/11/nsw-forestry-agency-called-criminal-organisation-by-critics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingIndustry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSWLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BellingenLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BellingenLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SaveTuckersNob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaveTuckersNob</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crime</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#harm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TheGreatKoalaNationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#governance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#accountability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extractivism</a>

BellingenNSWKoalas face death, attacks and mass starvation from monoculture plantations Cost-effective management techniques for Australian wildlife"...Displaced animals were sometimes still up in trees that were felled and ended up with broken bones, or were orphaned babies left behind. Others were attacked by cows or dogs.""A 2023 study of reported wild koala deaths in south-east Queensland found vehicles were responsible for about half (1,431) of all fatalities." >> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/11/koalas-face-death-attacks-and-starvation-as-blue-gums-chopped-down-in-victoria" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/11/koalas-face-death-attacks-and-starvation-as-blue-gums-chopped-down-in-victoria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingIndustry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#harm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Livestock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/vehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vehicles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/RoadTrauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RoadTrauma</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/KillingZones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KillingZones</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/plantations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plantations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/monoculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#monoculture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extractivism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#governance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a>

BellingenNSWWelfare of koalas living in plantations: Aerial and ground-based shooting of koalas "..The ongoing chronic animal welfare crisis facing koalas in southwest Victoria that has been unfolding for decades. The root cause being rampant habitat loss and the relentless expansion of the blue gum plantation industry. With their natural habitat diminished, koalas are left with nowhere safe to go...Only one animal was rescued and taken into care, while 1,061 were euthanised." >> <a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/photos-expose-fresh-blow-after-1061-koalas-shot-in-national-park-sad-truth-063055245.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://au.news.yahoo.com/photos-expose-fresh-blow-after-1061-koalas-shot-in-national-park-sad-truth-063055245.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/marsupials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marsupials</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingIndustry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#harm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/plantations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plantations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/monoculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#monoculture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SettlerSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SettlerSociety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/euthanasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#euthanasia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a>

BellingenNSWMass aerial culling of koalas The mindset of culling everything in this country is a colonial mentality."In the weeks leading up to the 2025 Federal Election, the Victorian Labor Government's approval of a barbaric slaughter by helicopter shooters, which killed 1,100 koalas, was comprehensively ignored. Mainstream media failed to report the killing, raising major censorship issues, which need to be addressed.""I went to one small area of a cleared plantation, with about 30 eucalypts left and around 20 koalas clinging to the branches. This is the scene after harvesting, koalas trying to survive in little pockets of trees.""There’s no excuse for Australia not to get it right. You can’t treat the environment like this. The mindset of culling everything in this country is a colonial mentality. Wildlife is suffering from our neglect. We have given nothing back to wildlife for all the good things they have done for us.""Experts have suggested retaining 30% of the plantation blue gums, ensuring corridors for koala movement. The extent of current laws, plans and guidelines in place to protect koalas in Victoria can best be described as completely ineffective, whether they are forests, plantations or urban development habitats." >> <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/labors-election-win-hopefully-a-turning-point-for-environment,19707" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/labors-election-win-hopefully-a-turning-point-for-environment,19707</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extractivism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/plantations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plantations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#harm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/EPBCAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPBCAct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#koalas</a>

BellingenNSWNative forest regeneration failure Logging devastated Victoria’s native forests – and new research shows 20% has failed to grow back"Following the end of native logging in Victoria on January 1 2024, the state’s majestic forests might be expected to regenerate and recover naturally. But our new research shows that’s not always the case. ""These degraded areas no longer hold the value they once did and they cannot provide the same level of ecosystem services such as carbon storage, water purification, or habitat for wildlife.""With no current government restoration plan, these landscapes will remain degraded indefinitely. Our research suggests leaving nature to its own devices would mean losing a fifth of the forests logged over the past 40 years. Bringing the trees back has multiple benefits and would be well worth the investment." >> <a href="https://theconversation.com/logging-devastated-victorias-native-forests-and-new-research-shows-20-has-failed-to-grow-back-254465" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/logging-devastated-victorias-native-forests-and-new-research-shows-20-has-failed-to-grow-back-254465</a>>> original A significant increase in forest regeneration failure following logging is driven by climatic and management factors <a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0301479725011454" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0301479725011454</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NativeForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeForests</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingIndustry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extractivism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/clearfelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#clearfelling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/degradation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#degradation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/regeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#regeneration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/failure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#failure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateBreakdown</a>

BellingenNSWProtecting Australia's unique ecosystems or extractivism as usual ?"With one of the highest rates of extinction in the world and more than 7.7 million hectares of threatened species habitat destroyed since 2000, Australia is considered by many to be in a biodiversity crisis...The agenda is entirely geared towards fast-tracking development." >> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-01/federal-election-2025-nature-laws-environmental-policies/105203334" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-01/federal-election-2025-nature-laws-environmental-policies/105203334</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BiodiversityCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BiodiversityCrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/EPBCAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPBCAct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecosystems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NaturePositive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaturePositive</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NatureNegative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NatureNegative</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/EnvironmentalLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalLaws</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSWLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#governance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/failure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#failure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extractivism</a>

BellingenNSWThe Ethical, legal and scientific concerns about aerial shooting of thousand koalas >> <a href="https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/more-than-a-thousand-koalas-shot-in-aerial-operation-,19679" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/more-than-a-thousand-koalas-shot-in-aerial-operation-,19679</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/AerialShooting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AerialShooting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/plantations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plantations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#governance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a>

BellingenNSWAustralia 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. " >> <a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/devastating-photos-captured-after-australia-gunned-down-koalas-from-helicopters-011645578.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://au.news.yahoo.com/devastating-photos-captured-after-australia-gunned-down-koalas-from-helicopters-011645578.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/AerialShooting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AerialShooting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/plantations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plantations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WildlifeCulling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WildlifeCulling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/AnimalWelfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnimalWelfare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a>

BellingenNSWSniping 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." >> <a href="https://theconversation.com/sniping-koalas-from-helicopters-heres-whats-wrong-with-victorias-unprecedented-cull-254996" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/sniping-koalas-from-helicopters-heres-whats-wrong-with-victorias-unprecedented-cull-254996</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Koala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Koala</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/plantations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plantations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cull" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cull</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#governance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BiodiversityCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BiodiversityCrisis</a>

BellingenNSWThe 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.” >> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/17/endangered-greater-gliders-recorded-in-proposed-great-koala-national-park-in-nsw-as-logging-continues" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/17/endangered-greater-gliders-recorded-in-proposed-great-koala-national-park-in-nsw-as-logging-continues</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BiodiversityCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BiodiversityCrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#harm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NativeForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NativeForests</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/gliders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gliders</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TheGreatKoalaNationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BellingenLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BellingenLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSWLogging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FCNSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FCNSW</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ExtinctionCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExtinctionCrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#governance</a>

BellingenNSWKoala 'overabundance' - 700 euthanised , some sterilised The species is often treated like a “pest”."When plantations are harvested, all trees are eventually cut down, forcing koalas to move across roads where they're at risk of being struck by cars, or onto private property where they're attacked by dogs, or into national parks where they're already overabundant...The area surrounding Budj Bim has been systematically logged since the 2019/2020 bushfires, likely leaving thousands of koalas homeless...Koalas don’t understand the difference between native forest and a plantation. It’s food. It’s shelter. Without these two things, they die." >> <a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/freak-weather-event-in-australian-national-park-leads-to-estimated-700-dead-koalas-033624408.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://au.news.yahoo.com/freak-weather-event-in-australian-national-park-leads-to-estimated-700-dead-koalas-033624408.html</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#koalas</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/habitat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#habitat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dogs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/plantations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plantations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ExtinctionCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExtinctionCrisis</a>

BellingenNSWGlobal impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity - and humans are the reason"Our activities have become a planet-shaping force, from changing the climate through our emissions to farming 44% of all habitable land. As our footprint has expanded, other species have been pushed to extinction." >> <a href="https://theconversation.com/invisible-losses-thousands-of-plant-species-are-missing-from-places-they-could-thrive-and-humans-are-the-reason-252378" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/invisible-losses-thousands-of-plant-species-are-missing-from-places-they-could-thrive-and-humans-are-the-reason-252378</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/loss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#loss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecosystems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/impoverishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#impoverishment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/flora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flora</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/sprawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sprawl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infrastructure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/graziers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#graziers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#livestock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoggingImpacts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pollution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/DarkDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DarkDiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a>

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