KinglakeForest
@kinglakeforest.bsky.social
Advocating for the protection of native forests in Victoria. Please sign our petition to end unscientific planned burns!
https://www.change.org/p/stop-broadscale-burning-of-native-forest?fbclid=IwAR3tGhvpEBb6xsLzMeJoXmpmZ6nJTgZJ3m5lPlb5bSrry45LQLjfiPgCgu8
https://www.change.org/p/stop-broadscale-burning-of-native-forest?fbclid=IwAR3tGhvpEBb6xsLzMeJoXmpmZ6nJTgZJ3m5lPlb5bSrry45LQLjfiPgCgu8
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Why FFMV sucks. Another installment in a never ending series.
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Not great footage but check out this Leadbeater’s possum I saw last night! Fastest thing I’ve ever seen in the trees, so good
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Not great footage but check out this Leadbeater’s possum I saw last night! Fastest thing I’ve ever seen in the trees, so good
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In a busy week, I delayed reading Tim's post because they always deserve focused attention, and wow, this one really hit home. The call to action - and the hope! - that I needed.
Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
This is politics today.
We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds
The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In a busy week, I delayed reading Tim's post because they always deserve focused attention, and wow, this one really hit home. The call to action - and the hope! - that I needed.
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This case could set an important legal precedent to enhance transparency and scrutiny when it comes to protecting threatened species from logging in Tasmania’s forests.
envirojustice.org.au/.../swift-pa...
envirojustice.org.au/.../swift-pa...
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This case could set an important legal precedent to enhance transparency and scrutiny when it comes to protecting threatened species from logging in Tasmania’s forests.
envirojustice.org.au/.../swift-pa...
envirojustice.org.au/.../swift-pa...
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The VFA has launched a citizen's database on PLANNED BURNS: to lift the lid on destructive fire management conducted by FFMV. 🔥
See something? Report. Help us collect evidence on the blatant mismanagement of fire in our forests.
www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/citizen_reports_planned_burns
See something? Report. Help us collect evidence on the blatant mismanagement of fire in our forests.
www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/citizen_reports_planned_burns
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The VFA has launched a citizen's database on PLANNED BURNS: to lift the lid on destructive fire management conducted by FFMV. 🔥
See something? Report. Help us collect evidence on the blatant mismanagement of fire in our forests.
www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/citizen_reports_planned_burns
See something? Report. Help us collect evidence on the blatant mismanagement of fire in our forests.
www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/citizen_reports_planned_burns
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Sunday night, time to relax. No, time to get furious after hearing about the sponsors of WA's recent Biodiversity Conference, which included Alcoa, Woodside and South 32. These destructive companies are the enemies of biodiversity and should be blacklisted. But instead...
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Sunday night, time to relax. No, time to get furious after hearing about the sponsors of WA's recent Biodiversity Conference, which included Alcoa, Woodside and South 32. These destructive companies are the enemies of biodiversity and should be blacklisted. But instead...
A good summary of how the Victorian government is looking to resume logging (for 'forest health' lol).
States also need to strengthen their nature protection laws. State governments are environmental criminals.
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
Focusing on the EPBC but dropping the ball on protection
While national environmental attention is fixed on EPBC Act reforms in Canberra, some Australian states have dropped the ball on forest protection – and this is seriously undermining Australia’s targe...
johnmenadue.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
A good summary of how the Victorian government is looking to resume logging (for 'forest health' lol).
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Geez, if you love nature and our precious habitat for animals, plantlife (and us) - everyday in this country feels like a fucking funeral :(
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
‘Horrific’ mass koala starvation hits Victorian island
Distressed locals have told of desperate koalas falling from trees and trying to eat vegetation such as pine needles.
www.smh.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Geez, if you love nature and our precious habitat for animals, plantlife (and us) - everyday in this country feels like a fucking funeral :(
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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I know it might come as a bit of a surprise, but the 2026 calendars turned up surprisingly early and are available in good Hobart bookstores, the Kudelka Shop and the Kudelka Sop website, so do yourself a favour and have at it. www.kudelkashop.com/product/2026...
October 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I know it might come as a bit of a surprise, but the 2026 calendars turned up surprisingly early and are available in good Hobart bookstores, the Kudelka Shop and the Kudelka Sop website, so do yourself a favour and have at it. www.kudelkashop.com/product/2026...
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Whats the real cost of the Macquarie Point stadium in Hobart / Nipaluna ?
“Architectural and urban quality will certainly not manifest because lawyers and politicians try to post-justify the wrong choice of site with hyperbole.”
“Architectural and urban quality will certainly not manifest because lawyers and politicians try to post-justify the wrong choice of site with hyperbole.”
What's the real cost of the Macquarie Point Stadium?
Whether or not the Tasmanian government’s widely condemned, extravagantly costly plan for a Macquarie Point stadium comes to pass, it has exposed something deeply wrong with how the state treats its u...
architectureau.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Whats the real cost of the Macquarie Point stadium in Hobart / Nipaluna ?
“Architectural and urban quality will certainly not manifest because lawyers and politicians try to post-justify the wrong choice of site with hyperbole.”
“Architectural and urban quality will certainly not manifest because lawyers and politicians try to post-justify the wrong choice of site with hyperbole.”
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Do yourself a favour & read @timhollo.bsky.social's brilliant piece. He's articulated, with humour, concerns & feelings many of us share.
"It's like a 14 year old boy who's read a few meme-quotes from Sun Tzu's The Art of War and played some Dungeons and Dragons and thinks he's a strategic genius."
"It's like a 14 year old boy who's read a few meme-quotes from Sun Tzu's The Art of War and played some Dungeons and Dragons and thinks he's a strategic genius."
Blogging today on the inanity of politics and the banality of ecocide.
Here, perhaps for the first time ever, we have a piece of writing that includes Sun Tzu, Hannah Arendt, and Nelson Muntz.
I think it says something useful. And I think it is slightly hopeful, at the end.
Here, perhaps for the first time ever, we have a piece of writing that includes Sun Tzu, Hannah Arendt, and Nelson Muntz.
I think it says something useful. And I think it is slightly hopeful, at the end.
Wedgie politics & the banality of ecocide
On the adolescent inanity of politics at the end of the world as we know it
There's something so banal about the way the latest "attempt" to "reform" Australia's "environment laws" is unfolding.
[Is...
in-between-days.ghost.io
October 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Do yourself a favour & read @timhollo.bsky.social's brilliant piece. He's articulated, with humour, concerns & feelings many of us share.
"It's like a 14 year old boy who's read a few meme-quotes from Sun Tzu's The Art of War and played some Dungeons and Dragons and thinks he's a strategic genius."
"It's like a 14 year old boy who's read a few meme-quotes from Sun Tzu's The Art of War and played some Dungeons and Dragons and thinks he's a strategic genius."
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Penny Wong accidentally saying the quiet bit out loud - for Labor the US relationship is more important than the Australian environment. Who do this lot think they work for?
October 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Penny Wong accidentally saying the quiet bit out loud - for Labor the US relationship is more important than the Australian environment. Who do this lot think they work for?
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Haven’t been to the platypus bridge in ages so I popped in after the rain today hoping that I hadn’t missed peak seasonal activity and OMFG?!?!
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Haven’t been to the platypus bridge in ages so I popped in after the rain today hoping that I hadn’t missed peak seasonal activity and OMFG?!?!
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"Planned burning isn't the simple fix it's often made out to be," Mr Just said. "In most forests, it only lowers fuels for two or three years before regrowth makes things worse."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
October 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
"Planned burning isn't the simple fix it's often made out to be," Mr Just said. "In most forests, it only lowers fuels for two or three years before regrowth makes things worse."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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One of the giants in the Errinundra old growth forest saved by decades of protection by protestors, citizen scientists and conservationists.
It's a bit of a hike in but so worth it.
It's a bit of a hike in but so worth it.
October 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
One of the giants in the Errinundra old growth forest saved by decades of protection by protestors, citizen scientists and conservationists.
It's a bit of a hike in but so worth it.
It's a bit of a hike in but so worth it.
It's ok. FFMV has 'the best science', as distinct from ... actual science, i guess.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Scientists question use of burns to cut bushfire risk
Dry winter conditions have resulted in extra fuel reduction burns in regional Victoria ahead of the fire season. But some scientists are asking if fuel burns are the best way to reduce fire risk.
www.abc.net.au
October 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It's ok. FFMV has 'the best science', as distinct from ... actual science, i guess.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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@australianlabor.bsky.social Enviro Minister Murray Watt giving off humungous 'we are all looking for the guy who did this' energy
October 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
@australianlabor.bsky.social Enviro Minister Murray Watt giving off humungous 'we are all looking for the guy who did this' energy
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I really hope that the environmental & conservation community has learnt their lessons from the safeguard mechanism fiasco. Those that should have known better were played by Labor, & threw many of their own under the bus. Now we're seeing the consequences. Let's not do the same with EPBC reforms!
Seriously?!
It was actually your own party and Anthony Albanese that scuttled the EPBC reforms last time around, to appease your W.A. Labor colleagues and mining interests!
And now you're asking us to lobby to pass legislation we haven't even seen the details of?!
www.linkedin.com/posts/murray...
It was actually your own party and Anthony Albanese that scuttled the EPBC reforms last time around, to appease your W.A. Labor colleagues and mining interests!
And now you're asking us to lobby to pass legislation we haven't even seen the details of?!
www.linkedin.com/posts/murray...
We need your help to deliver a new Federal Environmental Protection Agency that enforces the law and protects our incredible natural environment.
Tell the Senate to pass the EPA:… | Murray Watt | 11...
We need your help to deliver a new Federal Environmental Protection Agency that enforces the law and protects our incredible natural environment.
Tell the Senate to pass the EPA: https://alp.org.au/...
www.linkedin.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I really hope that the environmental & conservation community has learnt their lessons from the safeguard mechanism fiasco. Those that should have known better were played by Labor, & threw many of their own under the bus. Now we're seeing the consequences. Let's not do the same with EPBC reforms!
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What makes something a heist as opposed to a theft? Is it simply how cool it is?
October 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
What makes something a heist as opposed to a theft? Is it simply how cool it is?
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I’m chatting to Darryl Jones (author of (Be)Wilder: Journeys in Nature) and Steve Wilson (Endangered: the Javan Rhino Story) about their books at Eltham Bookshop on Wednesday - come along if you’re in the area and you’d like to check it out. Tickets here: elthambookshop.com.au/c/our-author...
October 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I’m chatting to Darryl Jones (author of (Be)Wilder: Journeys in Nature) and Steve Wilson (Endangered: the Javan Rhino Story) about their books at Eltham Bookshop on Wednesday - come along if you’re in the area and you’d like to check it out. Tickets here: elthambookshop.com.au/c/our-author...
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Your reminder that feral, invasive, non-native deer are basically better protected under law than *native* dingoes are in some regions of Victoria www.premier.vic.gov.au/balancing-di...
October 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Your reminder that feral, invasive, non-native deer are basically better protected under law than *native* dingoes are in some regions of Victoria www.premier.vic.gov.au/balancing-di...
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Many things are so overwhelmingly shit in the world but the rufous whistlers are back in Victoria for another season and that’s not nothing
October 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Many things are so overwhelmingly shit in the world but the rufous whistlers are back in Victoria for another season and that’s not nothing
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Yep, it’s crazy, it’s devoid of evidence based decisions, it’s ‘out of sight - out of mind’ and it’s all too common across Victoria.
‘Fuel reduction burning’ is a perfect example of thinking in words - empty words. The practice has little relation to reality on the ground.
‘Fuel reduction burning’ is a perfect example of thinking in words - empty words. The practice has little relation to reality on the ground.
FFMV plans to burn 60,000ha in Snowy NP.
'Just as decades of public pressure forced the logging industry under tighter rules & eventually brought it down under its own weight, we’ll only bring accountability to fire through the same relentless scrutiny & pressure.'
www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...
'Just as decades of public pressure forced the logging industry under tighter rules & eventually brought it down under its own weight, we’ll only bring accountability to fire through the same relentless scrutiny & pressure.'
www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...
The Burning Industry is Out of Control
Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) has been working to protect East Gippsland's forests from logging since 1993. Using citizen science, non-violent direct action, political lobbying and public educat...
www.geco.org.au
October 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Yep, it’s crazy, it’s devoid of evidence based decisions, it’s ‘out of sight - out of mind’ and it’s all too common across Victoria.
‘Fuel reduction burning’ is a perfect example of thinking in words - empty words. The practice has little relation to reality on the ground.
‘Fuel reduction burning’ is a perfect example of thinking in words - empty words. The practice has little relation to reality on the ground.
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FFMV plans to burn 60,000ha in Snowy NP.
'Just as decades of public pressure forced the logging industry under tighter rules & eventually brought it down under its own weight, we’ll only bring accountability to fire through the same relentless scrutiny & pressure.'
www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...
'Just as decades of public pressure forced the logging industry under tighter rules & eventually brought it down under its own weight, we’ll only bring accountability to fire through the same relentless scrutiny & pressure.'
www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...
The Burning Industry is Out of Control
Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) has been working to protect East Gippsland's forests from logging since 1993. Using citizen science, non-violent direct action, political lobbying and public educat...
www.geco.org.au
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
FFMV plans to burn 60,000ha in Snowy NP.
'Just as decades of public pressure forced the logging industry under tighter rules & eventually brought it down under its own weight, we’ll only bring accountability to fire through the same relentless scrutiny & pressure.'
www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...
'Just as decades of public pressure forced the logging industry under tighter rules & eventually brought it down under its own weight, we’ll only bring accountability to fire through the same relentless scrutiny & pressure.'
www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...