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@relationality.bsky.social
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Biodiversity, wildlife, a livable atmosphere, political ecology, relationality, philosophy, sociology
Less stuff, less extractivism, less exploitation, less violence

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Imagine - foreign powers could come and take your leader away.
mastodon.au/@Bellingen/1...
#NaturalResources #sovereignty #oilandgas #FossilFuels #mining #CriticalMinerals #energy #RuleOfLaw
January 4, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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#SA #MarineLife is dying because they're suffocating.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
#FossilFuels #harm #ocean #HABs
SA Premier says algal bloom is not 'toxic', despite word appearing in official government advice
South Australia's Premier has questioned the use of the word "toxic" to describe the state's ongoing algal bloom, despite the word being used in government advice and by scientists researching it.
www.abc.net.au
October 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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A society tolerating that workers are mauled to death by dogs
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
#pets #dogs #violence #workers #councils #OHS
Coronial inquest begins into death of meter reader mauled by dogs
Kane Minion was killed by dogs on a south-east Queensland property in 2022.
www.abc.net.au
October 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Darwin man Jake Danby, 24, ran down Mr Whitehurst and another #pedestrian in #Darwin then fled the scene. Danby avoided a prison term for his actions, instead being sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
#IndigenousPeoples #NT #pedestrians #violence
www.abc.net.au
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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#Dairy and #beef producers among those concerned about how #pesticide use affects their land as well as #water quality on the #MidNorthCoast
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#food #NSW #pollution
‘Gobsmacked at the scale’: blueberry industry’s rapid expansion divides NSW’s mid-north coast
Dairy and beef producers among those concerned about how pesticide use affects their land as well as water quality on the mid-north coast
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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#Blooms in the #ocean and they ask for handouts for businesses, ignoring long-term measures to prevent #algalbloom.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
#pollution #climate #EcologicalDisaster #SA #FossiFuels
Tourism operators facing 'dire straits' without more algal bloom relief
Tourism, seafood industry and community representatives are calling for greater funding, education and travel incentives ahead of the release of the South Australian government's upcoming Summer Plan.
www.abc.net.au
October 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Posties and frontline delivery #workers are being put at risk by careless #motorists
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#cars #crashes #careless #RoadTauma #FossilFuel
Australia Post releases footage of posties being hit by cars as it urges drivers to ‘keep an eye out’
More than 280 delivery workers injured in traffic collisions over past year, suffering everything from broken limbs to lacerations
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Tree eradication in urban settings, land clearing in the country side
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #trees #profit #views #dendrophobia #biodiversity #climate #Australia #mindsets
Stolen views, shipping containers and ‘shame signs’: do Australia’s tree wars need a new solution?
Conservationists and councils have called for bigger fines, a national database about illegal tree removals and even jail time to deter tree killers
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The Baudin’s black #cockatoo
“We need to end mining in forests and [the] clearing of forests for #mining”.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#birds #biodiversity
‘Baudin’s or bauxite?’: stark warning black cockatoo won’t survive mining expansion
BirdLife WA calls consequences of Alcoa’s proposals to clear 11,000ha of jarrah forest ‘irreversible and catastrophic’ for endangered bird
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The southern emu-wren
“When you have cars driving through or bulldozers driving through clearing vegetation, these little things can’t just jump across a road or a rocket launching pad.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#birds #EndangeredSpecies #destruction
‘So tiny and so vulnerable’: what chance will one of Australia’s smallest birds have against a rocket launchpad?
When South Australia gave the go-ahead for a launch facility to be built at a site that’s home to the endangered southern emu-wren, conservationists were astounded
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Four men are facing charges related to allegations they stole #crocodile eggs from Kakadu #NationalPark.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#biodiversity #conservation
'Complex' evidence linked to crocodile egg stealing charges
Four men, including a pilot who survived a fatal chopper crash in 2022, are facing Commonwealth charges for allegedly stealing saltwater crocodile eggs from Kakadu National Park.
www.abc.net.au
September 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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#Whales and human traps
“The only way to stop #entanglement, really, is to take the nets out."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#Drowning #HumpbackWhales #marine #mammal #habitat #AllOurBeach
Twelve whales have been tangled in shark nets off Queensland’s coast so far this year. Here’s why
In the worst case, entanglements could cause drowning, one expert says, but whales can also suffer long-term effects from the nets
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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"...Why the environment minister, Murray Watt, approved an application to extend the operating life of one of the world’s biggest and most polluting gas export developments until 2070."
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#climate #Murujuga #petroglyphs #pollution #rockart #WorldHeritage
Federal government agreed to weaken proposed protections for rock art from Woodside’s North West Shelf project
Document outlines negotiations over contentious extension of gas giant’s development after conditional approval in May
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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#Dolphins minced by fossil fuel motor #boats
Calls for #propeller guards on boats
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#marine #habitat #violence #mammals
#regulation #speeding
'A huge amount of sadness': Orphaned dolphin killed in Adelaide's Port River
The "completely preventable" death of a three-year-old dolphin in Adelaide's Port River has prompted new calls for mandatory propeller guards on boats entering the sanctuary.
www.abc.net.au
September 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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The beef industry in Queensland
A campaign by environmental non-profit Wilderness Society blames #beef for driving #deforestation.
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2... #BBQ #biodiversity
Farmers fight back as environmentalists blame beef for deforestation
The beef industry in Queensland improves its land-clearing record, but environmentalists say the deforestation debate is far from over.
www.abc.net.au
September 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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"Persistent algae #bloom causing political headaches as scientists are copping the flak
For fish, an algal bloom can cause suffocation and death.
For humans, skin rashes and coughing.
For politicians, bad news cycles and irritating headlines."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#hot #ocean #FossilFuels
September 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Let's burn #forests for energy
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#water #GHG #Australia
Ambitious plan to convert forestry waste into fuel for ships and planes
With biofuels earmarked as a way to power the transport sector in the future, one industry says its waste can be converted into aviation and shipping fuel.
www.abc.net.au
September 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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#Handbag fetish and E. coli from 50,000 #crocodiles
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#pollution #aquaculture #water #food #harm #externalities
#NT #CrocFarm
Major Australian croc farm irrigating with water high in E. coli
One of Australia's largest crocodile farms, owned by a subsidiary of luxury label Hermès, is consistently irrigating with water containing E. coli concentrations almost 500 times the national guidelin...
www.abc.net.au
September 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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‘Food bowl’ dreams for 53% of the Australia’s land mass
"Unless global warming is dramatically curbed, Northern Australia is unlikely to prosper in the second half of this century – and grandiose plans to turn the region into a food bowl will turn to dust."
theconversation.com/dangerous-cl...
Dangerous climate change threatens Northern Australia’s big ‘food bowl’ dreams
Big plans are afoot to turn Northern Australia into Asia’s “food bowl”. But the reality of climate change can’t be ignored.
theconversation.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Apiculture industry in National Parks?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#biodiversity #livestock #bees
Beekeepers finding it harder to access 'vital' public land
Apiarists are concerned they are losing access to public land in Victoria that provides a critical food source for their hives.
www.abc.net.au
September 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Bad dog? The environmental effects of owned #dogs
www.publish.csiro.au/pc/pdf/PC24071
#pets #biodiversity #birds #beach #shorebirds #penguins #koalas
September 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Four #dolphins found dead in Huon Aquaculture #salmon farm pens during six month period
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Four dolphins die after entanglement in Huon Aquaculture salmon pens
Data shows in the first six months of this year, four dolphins died from becoming entangled in salmon farm enclosures in Tasmania's southern waters.
www.abc.net.au
September 8, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Mandatory containment of cats in NSW
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#BiodiversityCrisis #cats #pets #ExtinctionCrisis #wildlife
September 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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"It's the 42nd seal to die at Tasmanian #fishfarms since the start of 2021."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
#salmon #wildlife #seals #birds #fish
Seal dies after botched tranquilisation attempt at Tasmanian salmon farm
A seal and 15 cormorants died in a Tasmanian salmon farm in the space of a week after becoming trapped inside, despite Tassal assurances that it would prevent wildlife interactions.
www.abc.net.au
August 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Australia is stuck in the car-obsessed past. The IPCC says #roads hinder national efforts to meet #climate targets.
theconversation.com/australia-wh... #cars #roads #GHG
Australia, why are you still obsessed with freeways – when they’re driving us away from net zero?
Expanding freeway networks undermines climate action. It points to a deep-seated flaw in Australia’s urban planning systems which must be solved.
theconversation.com
August 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM