Richard McLellan
@richardmclellan.bsky.social
Adjunct Research Fellow @CSU (PhD); ecologist; Australian sandalwood conservation; Chair, Gunduwa Regional Conservation Association @gunduwa.bsky.social ; trail runner.
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What part of "You also have a whole suite of threatening processes that occur, harvesting being one—both legal and illegal" didn't the Australian government get when it recently decided to defer Australian sandalwood's #ThreatenedSpecies listing for another two years?
Essential. Ecosystems.
Great infographic from UN Biodiversity (UNEP)
Great infographic from UN Biodiversity (UNEP)
February 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Essential. Ecosystems.
Great infographic from UN Biodiversity (UNEP)
Great infographic from UN Biodiversity (UNEP)
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What a malicious and small-minded act by the Finocchiaro government to scrap funding for the Environment Centre NT and the Arid Lands Environment Centre.
ECNT and ALEC are the Northern Territory’s peak environment organisations.
www.ecnt.org.au/forms/shares...
ECNT and ALEC are the Northern Territory’s peak environment organisations.
www.ecnt.org.au/forms/shares...
Environment groups slam CLP Government’s decision to scrap funding
www.ecnt.org.au
February 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
What a malicious and small-minded act by the Finocchiaro government to scrap funding for the Environment Centre NT and the Arid Lands Environment Centre.
ECNT and ALEC are the Northern Territory’s peak environment organisations.
www.ecnt.org.au/forms/shares...
ECNT and ALEC are the Northern Territory’s peak environment organisations.
www.ecnt.org.au/forms/shares...
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The duopoly is content to destroy our most vital asset, a healthy and biodiverse environment.
theconversation.com/labors-dumpi...
If you want a safe and productive future we vote soon, and luckily we have preferential voting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bley...
theconversation.com/labors-dumpi...
If you want a safe and productive future we vote soon, and luckily we have preferential voting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bley...
February 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The duopoly is content to destroy our most vital asset, a healthy and biodiverse environment.
theconversation.com/labors-dumpi...
If you want a safe and productive future we vote soon, and luckily we have preferential voting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bley...
theconversation.com/labors-dumpi...
If you want a safe and productive future we vote soon, and luckily we have preferential voting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bley...
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The environment is deteriorating, rapidly, we'll all be affected. theconversation.com/existential-....
The LNP AND Labor have failed to deliver environmental law reform theconversation.com/labors-dumpi....
There's a federal election soon. No vote is wasted with preferential voting. Vote wisely!
The LNP AND Labor have failed to deliver environmental law reform theconversation.com/labors-dumpi....
There's a federal election soon. No vote is wasted with preferential voting. Vote wisely!
‘Existential threat to our survival’: see the 19 Australian ecosystems already collapsing
Iconic ecosystems, from coral reefs to Tasmania’s ancient forests, are collapsing across the continent and into Antarctica. It’s not too late to act — in fact, our lives depend on it.
theconversation.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The environment is deteriorating, rapidly, we'll all be affected. theconversation.com/existential-....
The LNP AND Labor have failed to deliver environmental law reform theconversation.com/labors-dumpi....
There's a federal election soon. No vote is wasted with preferential voting. Vote wisely!
The LNP AND Labor have failed to deliver environmental law reform theconversation.com/labors-dumpi....
There's a federal election soon. No vote is wasted with preferential voting. Vote wisely!
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This isn’t just a missed opportunity; it’s a full-on capitulation to the forces wrecking our planet.
Labor is now on the same page as the environment-wrecking Liberals. What’s left? A track record of empty promises and a future for koalas, forests, and the climate that looks grim.
Labor is now on the same page as the environment-wrecking Liberals. What’s left? A track record of empty promises and a future for koalas, forests, and the climate that looks grim.
February 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
This isn’t just a missed opportunity; it’s a full-on capitulation to the forces wrecking our planet.
Labor is now on the same page as the environment-wrecking Liberals. What’s left? A track record of empty promises and a future for koalas, forests, and the climate that looks grim.
Labor is now on the same page as the environment-wrecking Liberals. What’s left? A track record of empty promises and a future for koalas, forests, and the climate that looks grim.
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As an actual environmental lawyer, today was a sad day. After caving in the mining and logging lobby, Labor and Liberal have just voted together to kill the government’s own nature laws.
February 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
As an actual environmental lawyer, today was a sad day. After caving in the mining and logging lobby, Labor and Liberal have just voted together to kill the government’s own nature laws.
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“Years of warnings...ignored or kept secret. Promises made, but not delivered...Laws that don’t work to protect the environment, or smooth the way for sensible development. All against the backdrop of...environmental destruction..It’s time to change that.”
- @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social 2022
- @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social 2022
February 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
“Years of warnings...ignored or kept secret. Promises made, but not delivered...Laws that don’t work to protect the environment, or smooth the way for sensible development. All against the backdrop of...environmental destruction..It’s time to change that.”
- @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social 2022
- @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social 2022
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Indian sandalwood properties in the NT sold to melon company Rombola Family Farms
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...?
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...?
Melon grower sniffs an opportunity in big NT sandalwood land sell-off
One of Australia's largest melon producers has bought a portfolio of Indian sandalwood properties in the Douglas Daly region of the NT.
www.abc.net.au
December 27, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Indian sandalwood properties in the NT sold to melon company Rombola Family Farms
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...?
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...?
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The fact that most people take the word “Amazon” to mean “place to buy stuff” rather than “dying cradle of life on Earth” tells Me your species is not worth saving.
November 30, 2024 at 5:06 PM
The fact that most people take the word “Amazon” to mean “place to buy stuff” rather than “dying cradle of life on Earth” tells Me your species is not worth saving.
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Just mind-blowing that this is allowed to happen: 161 golden bandicoots (a vulnerable species) killed in a single year at Chevron's Barrow Island facility.
(Read the rest of the thread to see how the projects carbon emissions are similarly horrific)
(Read the rest of the thread to see how the projects carbon emissions are similarly horrific)
Chevron also has to track the animals that they kill. In 2023-24, 161 Golden Bandicoots were killed within the footprint of the facility. This doesn't include animals that died from natural causes.
I have attached a photo of a Golden Bandicoot for outrage.
(Bandicoot photo credit: Amareta Kelly)
I have attached a photo of a Golden Bandicoot for outrage.
(Bandicoot photo credit: Amareta Kelly)
November 30, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Just mind-blowing that this is allowed to happen: 161 golden bandicoots (a vulnerable species) killed in a single year at Chevron's Barrow Island facility.
(Read the rest of the thread to see how the projects carbon emissions are similarly horrific)
(Read the rest of the thread to see how the projects carbon emissions are similarly horrific)
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‘When Albanese threw out the EPA, he didn’t just throw his minister under a bus. He threw the whole damn country under the same bus.’
Cracking @JennaPrice.bsky.social column!
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol
Cracking @JennaPrice.bsky.social column!
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol
November 30, 2024 at 12:36 AM
‘When Albanese threw out the EPA, he didn’t just throw his minister under a bus. He threw the whole damn country under the same bus.’
Cracking @JennaPrice.bsky.social column!
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol
Cracking @JennaPrice.bsky.social column!
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol
A shameful legacy for all responsible for this debacle:
“Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog”
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
“Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog”
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog
The resources sector wants the reform to be abandoned altogether rather than returned to the agenda in February.
www.smh.com.au
November 30, 2024 at 12:52 AM
A shameful legacy for all responsible for this debacle:
“Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog”
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
“Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog”
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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40 million dead mangrove trees in remote northern Australia, releasing massive amounts of stored “blue” carbon.
How can climate-sensitive ecosystems be a “nature-based solution” to rising temperatures, longer droughts, and more intense weather events?
More: smartwatermagazine.com/blogs/norman...
How can climate-sensitive ecosystems be a “nature-based solution” to rising temperatures, longer droughts, and more intense weather events?
More: smartwatermagazine.com/blogs/norman...
November 29, 2024 at 11:00 PM
40 million dead mangrove trees in remote northern Australia, releasing massive amounts of stored “blue” carbon.
How can climate-sensitive ecosystems be a “nature-based solution” to rising temperatures, longer droughts, and more intense weather events?
More: smartwatermagazine.com/blogs/norman...
How can climate-sensitive ecosystems be a “nature-based solution” to rising temperatures, longer droughts, and more intense weather events?
More: smartwatermagazine.com/blogs/norman...
Woylies are keystone species - mutually symbiotic with Australian sandalwood (also a keystone species … for Woylies, Boodies, Stick-nest Rats …)
All are #ThreatenedSpecies.
All are #ThreatenedSpecies.
Brush-tailed bettongs (Woylies) are the ecosystem engineers helping South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.
The tiny engineers helping nature heal itself
After being driven to extinction in the area, these tiny brush-tailed bettongs were reintroduced to South Australia's Yorke Peninsula as part of an ambitious project to help nature heal itself — and e...
www.abc.net.au
November 29, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Woylies are keystone species - mutually symbiotic with Australian sandalwood (also a keystone species … for Woylies, Boodies, Stick-nest Rats …)
All are #ThreatenedSpecies.
All are #ThreatenedSpecies.
November 29, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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The prime minister bowed to mining interests and poor polling in Western Australia with a last-minute decision to upend a deal with the Greens on the Nature Positive laws.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
Why Albanese killed the Nature Positive deal with the Greens
The prime minister bowed to mining interests and poor polling in Western Australia with a last-minute decision to upend a deal with the Greens on the Nature Positive laws.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 29, 2024 at 7:37 PM
The prime minister bowed to mining interests and poor polling in Western Australia with a last-minute decision to upend a deal with the Greens on the Nature Positive laws.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
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The national EPA would have put a stop to political interference in decision-making on projects that harmed the environment.
The irony? The deal was shot down at the eleventh hour by the Prime Minister at the behest of the WA mining industry.
Shame.
The irony? The deal was shot down at the eleventh hour by the Prime Minister at the behest of the WA mining industry.
Shame.
November 28, 2024 at 8:52 AM
The national EPA would have put a stop to political interference in decision-making on projects that harmed the environment.
The irony? The deal was shot down at the eleventh hour by the Prime Minister at the behest of the WA mining industry.
Shame.
The irony? The deal was shot down at the eleventh hour by the Prime Minister at the behest of the WA mining industry.
Shame.
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Federal parliament is done and dusted for the year 😳
The Prime Minister has squandered an opportunity to give Australians hope ahead of the next election when it comes to protecting nature.
We came so close to getting a deal to secure an independent environmental regulator.
The Prime Minister has squandered an opportunity to give Australians hope ahead of the next election when it comes to protecting nature.
We came so close to getting a deal to secure an independent environmental regulator.
November 28, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Federal parliament is done and dusted for the year 😳
The Prime Minister has squandered an opportunity to give Australians hope ahead of the next election when it comes to protecting nature.
We came so close to getting a deal to secure an independent environmental regulator.
The Prime Minister has squandered an opportunity to give Australians hope ahead of the next election when it comes to protecting nature.
We came so close to getting a deal to secure an independent environmental regulator.
RIP the ‘enviroment’ …
…. and editorial standards at The Worst Australian newspaper.
…. and editorial standards at The Worst Australian newspaper.
The West Australian was so excited about the demise of nature positive laws they forgot how to spell!
Editor was probably racing into Woodside supplied nose beers…
Editor was probably racing into Woodside supplied nose beers…
November 29, 2024 at 9:36 AM
RIP the ‘enviroment’ …
…. and editorial standards at The Worst Australian newspaper.
…. and editorial standards at The Worst Australian newspaper.
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The WA state Labor Party and national Labor Party are as pathetic at protecting the environment as the corrrupt coalition that preceded them www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
WA premier lobbied Albanese to kill Greens deal on environmental reform in eleventh hour intervention
After an intense day on Tuesday of last-minute negotiations and lobbying by environmental and mining groups in which a deal was said to have "come close", the government has now shelved the talks.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2024 at 6:31 AM
The WA state Labor Party and national Labor Party are as pathetic at protecting the environment as the corrrupt coalition that preceded them www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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Love me some frantic spinning from the PM’s office.
No it wasn’t me, doing the WA premier’s bidding, it was the damn traitor!!
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
No it wasn’t me, doing the WA premier’s bidding, it was the damn traitor!!
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
The prime minister's 'oh shit' moment when Fatima Payman helped sink key law
Fatima Payman's vote was needed to pass a critical reform. It was late on Wednesday the prime minister's office realised it was about to collapse.
www.abc.net.au
November 29, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Love me some frantic spinning from the PM’s office.
No it wasn’t me, doing the WA premier’s bidding, it was the damn traitor!!
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
No it wasn’t me, doing the WA premier’s bidding, it was the damn traitor!!
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
FFS Fatima Payman: selling out Australia’s natural environment to money-hungry mining companies.
The plot thickens with the PM pinning the blame on Payman.
November 29, 2024 at 8:17 AM
FFS Fatima Payman: selling out Australia’s natural environment to money-hungry mining companies.
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IUCN press release: shorturl.at/JXsvd
More than one in three tree species worldwide faces extinction - IUCN Red List
Cali, Colombia, 28 October 2024 (IUCN) – Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction according to the first Global Tree Assessment, published in today’s update of the IUCN Red...
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November 29, 2024 at 12:01 AM
IUCN press release: shorturl.at/JXsvd