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Simon Kovacevic
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Flood management | Catchment & surface water | Permaculture | Rewilding | Nature lover 🦘🐨 | Maintaining Tasmanian-Irish relations | Cork, Ireland
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World Wetlands Day is as good a time as any to reflect on the fact that numerous global assessments have identified Ireland as having the worst record in the world for the percentage of wetlands lost.
February 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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This is why you should not eat nuts on a plane. A friends child went into anaphylaxis because of it.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Hi everyone, after the success of the City To Casino stroll, I was kicking around the idea of running the Point To Pinnacle because I needed a goal to keep me feeling ok. Unfortunately, my glioblastoma kicked off in a new spot and made that unfeasible. However, while my running days are over
August 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Speaking of generous souls, covid lockdown in Tasmania started a couple of months after we moved into our current space and things were going quite well but then obviously it dropped off a cliff. Our cat got run over just after it started so it was a fairly grim period.
June 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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What does the Australian Government value?
Gas company profits or 40,000 years of culture?

Our ad in newspapers today ⤵️

Add your name: theaus.in/reject_NWS
May 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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We just published some new #science on forest habitat loss in Tasmania! here's a quick thread!

Swift parrots are Critically Endangered because of habitat loss.

Until now, nobody has quantified the amount and trends of forest loss and degradation!

1/8 🧵 🦜🧪
April 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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1. Hello everyone, Happy New Year. I’m back from a lovely time, though now stricken by a nasty bug.
Right, back to it:
In my catch-up reading, there are several articles about the “collapse of democracy”. Was 2024 the year in which it began to die? But NONE of them seeks to define democracy. 🧵
January 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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If we were *really* serious about tackling nature collapse in Ireland (a very big if, I know), what would we be doing?

A thread...🧵
December 22, 2024 at 6:15 AM
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A quick blog with personal reflections on Ireland's general election this Friday. This is mainly aimed at people who want to make their vote count for climate action.
#GE24 #SpeirGorm

hannahdaly.ie/2024-11-26-e...
Election 2024 - how do party manifestos stack up on climate commitments?
Some personal reflections on the upcoming Irish general election, and a plea
hannahdaly.ie
November 26, 2024 at 2:58 PM