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/
https://www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/
SunCable’s Muckaty Solar Precinct Proposal
Have Your Say
Closes November 25th
See our case card and submission writing tips here:
www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/suncables-mu...
Have Your Say
Closes November 25th
See our case card and submission writing tips here:
www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/suncables-mu...
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
SunCable’s Muckaty Solar Precinct Proposal
Have Your Say
Closes November 25th
See our case card and submission writing tips here:
www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/suncables-mu...
Have Your Say
Closes November 25th
See our case card and submission writing tips here:
www.lettersfortheenvironment.com/suncables-mu...
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Why is this new Suncable proposal not in the spotlight?
Clearing 493km2(ie 49,300ha) including 360km2 of bilby habitat with 53 sites identified where bilbies present/likely present?
Submissions close 25 November.
@biodivcouncil.bsky.social @kirstyhowey.bsky.social
ntepa.nt.gov.au/consultation...
Clearing 493km2(ie 49,300ha) including 360km2 of bilby habitat with 53 sites identified where bilbies present/likely present?
Submissions close 25 November.
@biodivcouncil.bsky.social @kirstyhowey.bsky.social
ntepa.nt.gov.au/consultation...
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Why is this new Suncable proposal not in the spotlight?
Clearing 493km2(ie 49,300ha) including 360km2 of bilby habitat with 53 sites identified where bilbies present/likely present?
Submissions close 25 November.
@biodivcouncil.bsky.social @kirstyhowey.bsky.social
ntepa.nt.gov.au/consultation...
Clearing 493km2(ie 49,300ha) including 360km2 of bilby habitat with 53 sites identified where bilbies present/likely present?
Submissions close 25 November.
@biodivcouncil.bsky.social @kirstyhowey.bsky.social
ntepa.nt.gov.au/consultation...
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.
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)
Yes that photo was from just north of Ti Tree but it’s getting like this pretty well wherever there’s buffel. These photos are from between Mt Isa and Cloncurry. The same. You can see buffel replacing the spinifex in real time and smoke in the horizon from fires.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Yes that photo was from just north of Ti Tree but it’s getting like this pretty well wherever there’s buffel. These photos are from between Mt Isa and Cloncurry. The same. You can see buffel replacing the spinifex in real time and smoke in the horizon from fires.
Burned, burning and ready to burn. #buffelgrass
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Burned, burning and ready to burn. #buffelgrass
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 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.
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.
Inland Australia is collapsing from #buffelgrass invasion and the intense, frequent fires it fuels
Buffel springs back after the fires (this is 19 days post fire) - it is known in Pitjantjatjara as mamu tjanpi (devil’s grass)
Governments are still encouraging pastoralists to plant it - devils.
Buffel springs back after the fires (this is 19 days post fire) - it is known in Pitjantjatjara as mamu tjanpi (devil’s grass)
Governments are still encouraging pastoralists to plant it - devils.
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Inland Australia is collapsing from #buffelgrass invasion and the intense, frequent fires it fuels
Buffel springs back after the fires (this is 19 days post fire) - it is known in Pitjantjatjara as mamu tjanpi (devil’s grass)
Governments are still encouraging pastoralists to plant it - devils.
Buffel springs back after the fires (this is 19 days post fire) - it is known in Pitjantjatjara as mamu tjanpi (devil’s grass)
Governments are still encouraging pastoralists to plant it - devils.
Smother, burn, repeat.
Just 19 days after this fire the buffel is rising up again and many trees are dead or severely harmed. This ecosystem is collapsing under buffel grass invasion.
Just 19 days after this fire the buffel is rising up again and many trees are dead or severely harmed. This ecosystem is collapsing under buffel grass invasion.
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Smother, burn, repeat.
Just 19 days after this fire the buffel is rising up again and many trees are dead or severely harmed. This ecosystem is collapsing under buffel grass invasion.
Just 19 days after this fire the buffel is rising up again and many trees are dead or severely harmed. This ecosystem is collapsing under buffel grass invasion.
Land Right News story on the Traditional Owners appeal against the Singleton groundwater licence in the High Court.
www.clc.org.au/wp-content/u...
www.clc.org.au/wp-content/u...
October 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Land Right News story on the Traditional Owners appeal against the Singleton groundwater licence in the High Court.
www.clc.org.au/wp-content/u...
www.clc.org.au/wp-content/u...
It’s hot and the enormous fires west of Tennant Creek have moved close to 100km in 6 hours today :( Mparntwe skies are smoke filled. #changedfireregimes
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
It’s hot and the enormous fires west of Tennant Creek have moved close to 100km in 6 hours today :( Mparntwe skies are smoke filled. #changedfireregimes
Biosecurity governance is our quietly captured disgrace
It’s main players are profit driven and complicit in destroy biodiversity (the best defence against pests and diseases)
3 steps:
2. Clear native vegetation
3. Introduce invasive pasture grasses
4. Saturate the country with pesticides
It’s main players are profit driven and complicit in destroy biodiversity (the best defence against pests and diseases)
3 steps:
2. Clear native vegetation
3. Introduce invasive pasture grasses
4. Saturate the country with pesticides
October 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Biosecurity governance is our quietly captured disgrace
It’s main players are profit driven and complicit in destroy biodiversity (the best defence against pests and diseases)
3 steps:
2. Clear native vegetation
3. Introduce invasive pasture grasses
4. Saturate the country with pesticides
It’s main players are profit driven and complicit in destroy biodiversity (the best defence against pests and diseases)
3 steps:
2. Clear native vegetation
3. Introduce invasive pasture grasses
4. Saturate the country with pesticides
Driving from Charters Towers to Cloncurry.
The entire way has pretty much been cleared and planted with buffel grass.
How are we letting this scale of destruction happen?
This is not food security and nutrition and economic responsibility, this is ecocide.
The entire way has pretty much been cleared and planted with buffel grass.
How are we letting this scale of destruction happen?
This is not food security and nutrition and economic responsibility, this is ecocide.
October 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Driving from Charters Towers to Cloncurry.
The entire way has pretty much been cleared and planted with buffel grass.
How are we letting this scale of destruction happen?
This is not food security and nutrition and economic responsibility, this is ecocide.
The entire way has pretty much been cleared and planted with buffel grass.
How are we letting this scale of destruction happen?
This is not food security and nutrition and economic responsibility, this is ecocide.
Mparntwe Alice Springs burning due to buffel grass again. The old trees are disappearing :(
Meanwhile the cattle industry can and does seed buffel anywhere except in SA
Meanwhile the cattle industry can and does seed buffel anywhere except in SA
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Mparntwe Alice Springs burning due to buffel grass again. The old trees are disappearing :(
Meanwhile the cattle industry can and does seed buffel anywhere except in SA
Meanwhile the cattle industry can and does seed buffel anywhere except in SA
Great new review describing the many ways altered fire regimes harm species (and country).
From here it highlights the many tragic pathways by which buffel grass invasion destroys.
mcusercontent.com/54862e391a9f...
From here it highlights the many tragic pathways by which buffel grass invasion destroys.
mcusercontent.com/54862e391a9f...
October 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Great new review describing the many ways altered fire regimes harm species (and country).
From here it highlights the many tragic pathways by which buffel grass invasion destroys.
mcusercontent.com/54862e391a9f...
From here it highlights the many tragic pathways by which buffel grass invasion destroys.
mcusercontent.com/54862e391a9f...
Doomadgee - dingo and rainbow serpent.
September 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Doomadgee - dingo and rainbow serpent.
We drove from Mpartnwe (Alice Springs) to Borroloola, saw a dingo on the way in and then found this book at Waralungku Art Centre waralungku.com!
September 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
We drove from Mpartnwe (Alice Springs) to Borroloola, saw a dingo on the way in and then found this book at Waralungku Art Centre waralungku.com!
Wonderful time at the #greatnorthconference
September 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Wonderful time at the #greatnorthconference
Buffel Grass (Cenchrus Ciliaris) has not been prioritised for biocontrol because of 'low biocontrol prospects'
weeds.org.au/wp-content/u...
Meanwhile govt and industry are spending millions researching biological threats to buffel grass pastures e.g www.mla.com.au/contentasset...
weeds.org.au/wp-content/u...
Meanwhile govt and industry are spending millions researching biological threats to buffel grass pastures e.g www.mla.com.au/contentasset...
September 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Buffel Grass (Cenchrus Ciliaris) has not been prioritised for biocontrol because of 'low biocontrol prospects'
weeds.org.au/wp-content/u...
Meanwhile govt and industry are spending millions researching biological threats to buffel grass pastures e.g www.mla.com.au/contentasset...
weeds.org.au/wp-content/u...
Meanwhile govt and industry are spending millions researching biological threats to buffel grass pastures e.g www.mla.com.au/contentasset...
The La Grange water allocation statement has been released (see comments). This area supports complex, culturally important groundwater’s dependent ecological communities. In line with global trends it reveals that most of the groundwater allocation has been snapped up but yet to be used.
September 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The La Grange water allocation statement has been released (see comments). This area supports complex, culturally important groundwater’s dependent ecological communities. In line with global trends it reveals that most of the groundwater allocation has been snapped up but yet to be used.
September 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM