Marilyn Connell
@marilynjc.bsky.social
Freshwater turtle conservation, Landcare, Churchill Fellow, nature.
Hugh Possingham is a great practical role model for standardised bird monitoring.
Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed. youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?...
Why most conservation projects fail to learn
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Hugh Possingham is a great practical role model for standardised bird monitoring.
How many threatened species are waiting for Recovery plans??? An enormous task ahead IF govt actively undertakes this process.
The federal environment minister has conceded that successive governments acted unlawfully when they failed to create mandatory recovery plans for native species threatened with extinction
Government required to create plan to protect greater glider in major legal win for Wilderness Society
Murray Watt agrees recovery plans for greater glider, ghost bat, lungfish and sandhill dunnart were not made by successive governments
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
How many threatened species are waiting for Recovery plans??? An enormous task ahead IF govt actively undertakes this process.
Reposted by Marilyn Connell
Research suggests the life-support system underpinning the tropics is at serious risk in a warmer world.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/butterf...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/butterf...
August 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Research suggests the life-support system underpinning the tropics is at serious risk in a warmer world.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/butterf...
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/butterf...
Who would’ve thought???? Gotta love nature.
A secret under-layer explains why songbirds’ colourful feathers look so damn good. 👉 theconversation.com/birds-u...
July 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Who would’ve thought???? Gotta love nature.
Thought provoking.
A/Prof Phil Zylstra gave an incredible webinar on fire and forests last week, and the recording is up on the VFA website now! 🌳🔥
➡ www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/recording_zy...
➡ www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/recording_zy...
July 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Thought provoking.
Reposted by Marilyn Connell
Invertebrates, like bees, worms and spiders, play many vital functions in our ecosystems. But almost 1,000 Aussie invertebrates are threatened with extinction. We asked Assoc Prof Kate Umbers from Biodiversity Council and Invertebrates Australia how to help 🐝
#insects #conservation #CitizenScience
#insects #conservation #CitizenScience
July 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Invertebrates, like bees, worms and spiders, play many vital functions in our ecosystems. But almost 1,000 Aussie invertebrates are threatened with extinction. We asked Assoc Prof Kate Umbers from Biodiversity Council and Invertebrates Australia how to help 🐝
#insects #conservation #CitizenScience
#insects #conservation #CitizenScience
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US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
Big benefit of camera traps
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/first-l...
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/first-l...
First Leadbeater’s possum detection in NSW shows importance of protecting big conservation areas | Biodiversity Council Australia
The Leadbeater’s possum has just been detected in Kosciusko National Park near the Yarrangobilly Caves. This extraordinary discovery is the first live record of this Critically Endangered species outs...
biodiversitycouncil.org.au
May 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Big benefit of camera traps
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/first-l...
biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/first-l...
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We want to help demystify these vaccines and have put together this report to help address people questions about the technology
Demystifying messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines and debunking the myths – Independent SAGE
Independent SAGE: Independent scientific advice on the COVID-19 crisis, for the UK government and public.
independentsage.org
May 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We want to help demystify these vaccines and have put together this report to help address people questions about the technology
Here here.
Happy #EarthDay!
Today—and every day—we stand with scientists, communities, and conservationists around the world working to protect the planet’s #biodiversity.
🌍🦑🐋🍄🌱🐛🦥
Today—and every day—we stand with scientists, communities, and conservationists around the world working to protect the planet’s #biodiversity.
🌍🦑🐋🍄🌱🐛🦥
April 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Here here.
Reposted by Marilyn Connell
Another gigawatt hour added to Brisbane battery to make it biggest in Australia reneweconomy.com.au/another-giga...
Another gigawatt hour added to Brisbane battery to make it biggest in Australia
Supernode battery will be the biggest in Australia after Queensland state owned generator signed massive new off take, despite government’s support of coal.
reneweconomy.com.au
April 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Another gigawatt hour added to Brisbane battery to make it biggest in Australia reneweconomy.com.au/another-giga...
It takes a community to help save #threatenedspecies. What a privilege to be part of. #landcare #turtle #conservation
The fifth video in our Last Chance series about the extinction crisis is about the critically endangered Mary River turtle and a rescue mission after unusual flooding during the turtle’s breeding season.
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‘Every year matters’: Queensland’s critically endangered ‘bum-breathing’ turtle battles the odds
Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
It takes a community to help save #threatenedspecies. What a privilege to be part of. #landcare #turtle #conservation
#Maryriver experienced multiple high velocity major #floods in 2022. Impacts on #threatenedspecies #criticallyendangered #Maryriverturtle and #environment explored in new Podcast series #What’syourstory open.spotify.com/episode/178B...
Episode 3 - Marilyn Connell
What's Your Story? · Episode
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April 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
#Maryriver experienced multiple high velocity major #floods in 2022. Impacts on #threatenedspecies #criticallyendangered #Maryriverturtle and #environment explored in new Podcast series #What’syourstory open.spotify.com/episode/178B...
Last Chance series by The Guardian - so many Australian fauna species in peril.
Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?
Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?
Some of the country’s most loved native species, including the koala and the hairy-nosed wombat, are on the brink. Is this their last chance at survival?
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Last Chance series by The Guardian - so many Australian fauna species in peril.
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The next video in our Last Chance nature series is about the critically endangered far-eastern curlew and the people working to protect this amazing migratory shorebird’s coastal habitat at Darwin harbour
Endangered far eastern curlews, and the scientist standing up for them – video
Dr Amanda Lilleyman is defending the critically endangered migratory bird as residential and industrial development threatens to encroach on shorelines vital to its survival
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The next video in our Last Chance nature series is about the critically endangered far-eastern curlew and the people working to protect this amazing migratory shorebird’s coastal habitat at Darwin harbour
If all that is being reported is true, it’s appalling. Surely animal cruelty is an additional problem. Is consumption of non Australian salmon increasing??
In the middle of a disease-related mass mortality event, while rotting salmon fat is washing up on TAS beaches, …
Albanese to rush through new laws to protect Tasmania’s salmon industry from legal threat
Labor will push the contentious bill through parliament next week despite concerns about the extinction of the Maugean skate
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If all that is being reported is true, it’s appalling. Surely animal cruelty is an additional problem. Is consumption of non Australian salmon increasing??
Anyne know what the purpose of this presumably a #nestbox is for??? Torrington national park, nr Tenterfield NSW. #conservation #wildlife
March 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Anyne know what the purpose of this presumably a #nestbox is for??? Torrington national park, nr Tenterfield NSW. #conservation #wildlife
#DynamicLagoons
Little Llangothlin Nature Reserve Ramsar site.
Little Llangothlin Nature Reserve Ramsar site.
March 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
#DynamicLagoons
Little Llangothlin Nature Reserve Ramsar site.
Little Llangothlin Nature Reserve Ramsar site.
Unbelievable. #Reconyx #wildlifecamera still operational despite being submerged for at least 6 consecutive days #wildoz
December 27, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Unbelievable. #Reconyx #wildlifecamera still operational despite being submerged for at least 6 consecutive days #wildoz
Rare event. 6 times in 114yrs of records, Mary River at Miva has exceeded 10m in Dec - twice this century incl today; river still rising. Dec matters as wild #criticallyendangered #MaryRiverturtle embryos are incubating. Unprotected embryos won’t survive. #wildoz
December 17, 2024 at 5:06 AM
Rare event. 6 times in 114yrs of records, Mary River at Miva has exceeded 10m in Dec - twice this century incl today; river still rising. Dec matters as wild #criticallyendangered #MaryRiverturtle embryos are incubating. Unprotected embryos won’t survive. #wildoz
Concerning that #iNaturalist could get caught up in the social media legislation….. #wildoz
Quick question: does iNsturalist count as social media? Ping @mslods.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Concerning that #iNaturalist could get caught up in the social media legislation….. #wildoz