Letters for the Environment Central Australia
@letterscentral.bsky.social
LECA is a community letter writing group based in Mparntwe - unceded central Arrernte country.
https://www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/
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Leaders of the Colorado River Indian Tribes formally granted the Colorado River legal personhood status, making it the third river with such legal protections in North America. The Yurok Tribe granted personhood to the Klamath River in 2019. @debkrol.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Colorado River wins personhood status from Arizona tribal council
Personhood status creates a powerful new mechanism for protecting the eponymous river that makes life possible in their arid homelands.
www.azcentral.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Leaders of the Colorado River Indian Tribes formally granted the Colorado River legal personhood status, making it the third river with such legal protections in North America. The Yurok Tribe granted personhood to the Klamath River in 2019. @debkrol.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
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"the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying the climate negotiations for 30 years now"
~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at:
youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...
~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at:
youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying the climate negotiations for 30 years now"
~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at:
youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...
~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at:
youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...
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Your reminder #cop30 that #Australia has increased gas production by 360% since 2000. Stats c/o @iea.org:
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Your reminder #cop30 that #Australia has increased gas production by 360% since 2000. Stats c/o @iea.org:
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#COP30
Gilmar, an Indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community near the lower reaches of the Tapajos River in Brazil:
“We can’t eat money"
“We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers.”
@lyndalrowlands.bsky.social & co for @aljazeera.com
Gilmar, an Indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community near the lower reaches of the Tapajos River in Brazil:
“We can’t eat money"
“We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers.”
@lyndalrowlands.bsky.social & co for @aljazeera.com
Indigenous activists storm COP30 climate summit in Brazil, demanding action
Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.
www.aljazeera.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
#COP30
Gilmar, an Indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community near the lower reaches of the Tapajos River in Brazil:
“We can’t eat money"
“We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers.”
@lyndalrowlands.bsky.social & co for @aljazeera.com
Gilmar, an Indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community near the lower reaches of the Tapajos River in Brazil:
“We can’t eat money"
“We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers.”
@lyndalrowlands.bsky.social & co for @aljazeera.com
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✨A REQUEST 🙏🏻
I’m writing a new unit on Environmental Justice. If you know of any great readings, films, resources,(etc) I could draw from, please consider sharing them with me?*
I’m particularly keen to include a strong focus on Australia, Indigenous rights, and water & climate justice.
I’m writing a new unit on Environmental Justice. If you know of any great readings, films, resources,(etc) I could draw from, please consider sharing them with me?*
I’m particularly keen to include a strong focus on Australia, Indigenous rights, and water & climate justice.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
✨A REQUEST 🙏🏻
I’m writing a new unit on Environmental Justice. If you know of any great readings, films, resources,(etc) I could draw from, please consider sharing them with me?*
I’m particularly keen to include a strong focus on Australia, Indigenous rights, and water & climate justice.
I’m writing a new unit on Environmental Justice. If you know of any great readings, films, resources,(etc) I could draw from, please consider sharing them with me?*
I’m particularly keen to include a strong focus on Australia, Indigenous rights, and water & climate justice.
Classic ABC Rural disappearing the reasons why not to mine the Great Artesian Basin and the international dealers in pin striped suits profiting from global water mining. (Although Sorghum’s for cattle is bad enough!)
Here’s photos of aquifer levels and songlines traversing the GAB for the record.
Here’s photos of aquifer levels and songlines traversing the GAB for the record.
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Classic ABC Rural disappearing the reasons why not to mine the Great Artesian Basin and the international dealers in pin striped suits profiting from global water mining. (Although Sorghum’s for cattle is bad enough!)
Here’s photos of aquifer levels and songlines traversing the GAB for the record.
Here’s photos of aquifer levels and songlines traversing the GAB for the record.
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“This is part of the dairy industry’s strategy to slow more concrete action — to avoid the fact we need to transition away from producing so much dairy. This is an important fight about who defines the rules.” @benlilliston.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...
Revealed: U.S. Dairy Industry Push to Water Down Global Emissions Framework
Trade associations representing some of the largest dairy companies in the world have coordinated efforts to weaken international standards for how corporations measure their carbon emissions. Expert...
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“This is part of the dairy industry’s strategy to slow more concrete action — to avoid the fact we need to transition away from producing so much dairy. This is an important fight about who defines the rules.” @benlilliston.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/r...
A community coming together and taking action!
“Buffel grass has taken over so much land and we’re losing biodiversity.
This is a real crisis, and while we can’t turn back the clock, we can protect the areas we still have”.
Mparntwe (Alice Springs)
“Buffel grass has taken over so much land and we’re losing biodiversity.
This is a real crisis, and while we can’t turn back the clock, we can protect the areas we still have”.
Mparntwe (Alice Springs)
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A community coming together and taking action!
“Buffel grass has taken over so much land and we’re losing biodiversity.
This is a real crisis, and while we can’t turn back the clock, we can protect the areas we still have”.
Mparntwe (Alice Springs)
“Buffel grass has taken over so much land and we’re losing biodiversity.
This is a real crisis, and while we can’t turn back the clock, we can protect the areas we still have”.
Mparntwe (Alice Springs)
Burned, burning and ready to burn. #buffelgrass
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Burned, burning and ready to burn. #buffelgrass
‘There’s a massive disconnect between the conversations that are being had among young people about having children, and government and policy discussions about Australia’s demographic future.’
Clive Hamilton
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Clive Hamilton
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Survey finds 40% of Australian women without kids hesitant to have children because of climate change
Research which polled a representative sample of 2,000 people also found over a third of Coalition voters believed the climate would not change at all
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
‘There’s a massive disconnect between the conversations that are being had among young people about having children, and government and policy discussions about Australia’s demographic future.’
Clive Hamilton
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Clive Hamilton
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Mindblowing @letterscentral.bsky.social that Australia has barely heard anything about these bushfires locally, yet it's been massive.
#Australia #bushfires #fireau #climate
#Australia #bushfires #fireau #climate
Global #wildfires #openburning intensity & emissions for October 2025 in #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service GFAS data ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam.... Mostly seasonal tropical fires (switching from S-N Africa) + notable Australia bushfires
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
@copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Mindblowing @letterscentral.bsky.social that Australia has barely heard anything about these bushfires locally, yet it's been massive.
#Australia #bushfires #fireau #climate
#Australia #bushfires #fireau #climate
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As if we don't have enough problems with the health of the seas
What is the new species detected in SA's algal bloom?
New research awaiting peer review has provided a few revelations about the make-up of South Australia's algal bloom, with a new predominant species — Karenia cristata — identified by scientists. Here'...
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
As if we don't have enough problems with the health of the seas
Humans are evil
www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-...
www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-...
www.agriculture.gov.au
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Humans are evil
www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-...
www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-...
Angatyepe, Honeymoon Gap is one of the most beautiful and loved places in Central Australia.
30 days ago the upstream was devastated by another buffel fuelled fire. Most of the old rivergums have burned to the ground.
30 days ago the upstream was devastated by another buffel fuelled fire. Most of the old rivergums have burned to the ground.
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Angatyepe, Honeymoon Gap is one of the most beautiful and loved places in Central Australia.
30 days ago the upstream was devastated by another buffel fuelled fire. Most of the old rivergums have burned to the ground.
30 days ago the upstream was devastated by another buffel fuelled fire. Most of the old rivergums have burned to the ground.
Example of our Insanity.
Biosecurity just one unnecessary cost and risk.
Biosecurity just one unnecessary cost and risk.
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Example of our Insanity.
Biosecurity just one unnecessary cost and risk.
Biosecurity just one unnecessary cost and risk.
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Aptly the Mirage News is running a story on the NT’s announcement of its carbon capture and storage (CCS) project which enables massive gas extraction from the Beetaloo etc.
www.miragenews.com/new-co-termi....
www.miragenews.com/new-co-termi....
New CO₂ Terminal To Deliver 1,000 Territory Jobs
6 November 2025Up to 1,000 jobs are expected to be created through Vopak's carbon dioxide import, storage and handling terminal at the Middle Arm
www.miragenews.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Aptly the Mirage News is running a story on the NT’s announcement of its carbon capture and storage (CCS) project which enables massive gas extraction from the Beetaloo etc.
www.miragenews.com/new-co-termi....
www.miragenews.com/new-co-termi....
Why isn’t this a national scandal? Instead the cattle industry has just taken the insurance money, restocked, told everyone else to do better, kept on clearing releasing more GHGs, and opposed regulation of highly flammable invasive pasture grasses like buffel.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Review highlights 'near misses' in bushfire that killed 37,000 cattle
The fire threatened communities, destroyed more than 3,500km of fencing and cost the NT's cattle industry an estimated $120 million.
www.abc.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Why isn’t this a national scandal? Instead the cattle industry has just taken the insurance money, restocked, told everyone else to do better, kept on clearing releasing more GHGs, and opposed regulation of highly flammable invasive pasture grasses like buffel.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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twitty the twister. Hasn't he done enough damage to the Thalanyji People already?
The Bartle of Minderoo. - Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954) - 21 Feb 1935
Sorting the files in one of the strong-rooms in their St. George's-terrace office recently, an old-established firm of chartered accountants found a type-written ...
trove.nla.gov.au
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
twitty the twister. Hasn't he done enough damage to the Thalanyji People already?
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#EPBC #BilateralAgreements
Devolve Federal powers for environmental protection, assessment & enforcement to the States & Territories they say
One-stop shop, single-touch assessments will be great they say
👇NT government's track record👇
Devolve Federal powers for environmental protection, assessment & enforcement to the States & Territories they say
One-stop shop, single-touch assessments will be great they say
👇NT government's track record👇
Gosh, worrying amounts of land-clearing & impacts in the NT
"On average, the cleared areas overlapped with more than 12 nationally listed threatened species."
"Another 146,000 hectares have approval to be cleared and an additional 100,000 hectares could be cleared for an expanded cotton industry."
"On average, the cleared areas overlapped with more than 12 nationally listed threatened species."
"Another 146,000 hectares have approval to be cleared and an additional 100,000 hectares could be cleared for an expanded cotton industry."
"Land-clearing is increasing...about 45,000 hectares of savanna habitat was destroyed between 2000 and 2020...equivalent to an area roughly the size of 22,500 MCGs."
Read about our new report, The State and Future of the Northern Territory’s Savannas 👉 theconversation.com/the-top-ends...
Read about our new report, The State and Future of the Northern Territory’s Savannas 👉 theconversation.com/the-top-ends...
November 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
#EPBC #BilateralAgreements
Devolve Federal powers for environmental protection, assessment & enforcement to the States & Territories they say
One-stop shop, single-touch assessments will be great they say
👇NT government's track record👇
Devolve Federal powers for environmental protection, assessment & enforcement to the States & Territories they say
One-stop shop, single-touch assessments will be great they say
👇NT government's track record👇
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1/4 🚨 PLS SHARE ⚠️ to make sure you aren't unknowingly eating 'conflict beef' from illegal cattle farms in Nicaragua! 🐄 #conflictbeef #animalag
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
1/4 🚨 PLS SHARE ⚠️ to make sure you aren't unknowingly eating 'conflict beef' from illegal cattle farms in Nicaragua! 🐄 #conflictbeef #animalag
‘Agribusiness exercises a tight grip over the Brazilian state, whether governed by the left or right, Lula or Bolsonaro. So it’s no surprise that this year’s COP is shaping up to be a monumental exercise in agro-greenwashing.’
COP30’s Agri Zone, sponsored by Bill Gates, will be a major venue for agro-greenwashing next week. Delegates will be dazzled by Nestlé, Bayer, Yara and even Netafim, accused of involvement in Israel’s genocide economy www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/11/03/a... @bdsmovement.bsky.social @desmog.com
Agribusiness gets its turn to co-opt the climate COP in Brazil
Agribusiness has chainsawed its way over the past few decades to make Brazil the leading exporter of meats and animal
www.brasildefato.com.br
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
‘Agribusiness exercises a tight grip over the Brazilian state, whether governed by the left or right, Lula or Bolsonaro. So it’s no surprise that this year’s COP is shaping up to be a monumental exercise in agro-greenwashing.’
