What's nature ever done for us?

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Widespread planned burning accelerates loss of large trees and locks in higher flammability for decades. There are alternatives that the Western Australian government should invest in. Check the video featuring fire expert Phil Zylstra🌏

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Feral cattle & cattle from neighbouring stations threaten Australia's top end national parks. A WA government control program already limits damage, but from what I saw in 2023, more investment is needed. Preventing station cattle from entering parks is also important.🌏

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Lobbyists who demand feral horses stay in National Parks found to have racially vilified Indigenous people. But current goverment policy is evidence based, and, with support of the Yorta Yorta, feral horses will be removed, protecting native species and ecosystems.🌏

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

The #ESAus2024 (Ecological Society of Australia conference) starter pack is live! Let me know if you're attending in December and I'll add you in.

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Thanks to Tony Mitchell and his wallaby, Nature has actual nature on the cover, highlighting our paper that shows the impact of megafires on biodiversity is moderated mostly by the number of past fires. 🌏

www.nature.com/nature/volum...

Australia's Government has scuttled nature positive legislation because one State Labor premiere is kowtowing to the mining industry.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Ecological Society of Australia is here. Such a relief to have a platform for scientists to communicate with each other and the world more generally.
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Update on conservation status of Australia's freshwater fish. It looks grim and more effort needed to limit invasive trout and habitat loss.
www.abc.net.au/news/science...

The condition of sites affected how severe impacts of the 2019-20 fires were. Most important was the number of preceding fires, with implications for prescribed burning🌏
The conversation theconversation.com/catastrophic...
The paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The video youtu.be/kCPjowmxH3Q

‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire theconversation.com/catastrophic...

Based on @dadriscoll.bsky.social et al.'s paper out now in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires.

In this massive collaboration, >100 Australian ecologists put a novel spin on meta-analysis to discover how fire frequency, interval, unburnt area, pre-fire drought and protected areas modify fire impacts.🌏

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NSW Government inquiry into control of feral horses confirms that aerial culling is an important tool for reducing feral horse numbers humanely. Great to see increased protection of native Australian species and ecosystems, at least in 2/3 of Kosciuszko NP.
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New paper! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - Grant Linley et al.

Exciting news! Tomorrow our gigantic collaboration about the impacts of the 2019-20 megafires on plants and animals comes out in Nature. It has implications for prescribed burning and climate change. More tomorrow....

Effective conservation is so closely connected to the big decisions governments make. And Australia's Labor party just went with greenwashing and gross underfunding.🌏

theconversation.com/threatened-s...

Australia's government renegs on promises to protect biodiversity. It could have done so much with relatively little $$. 🌏

theconversation.com/green-indust...