Richard McLellan
@richardmclellan.bsky.social
Adjunct Research Fellow @CSU (PhD); ecologist; Australian sandalwood conservation; Chair, Gunduwa Regional Conservation Association @gunduwa.bsky.social ; trail runner.
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)
November 29, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Have fond memories of our time in Switzerland 🇨🇭
Wrote a blog: Jura Mountain Rambling 🥾 🥾
richardmclellan.blogspot.com/2012/01/livi...
Wrote a blog: Jura Mountain Rambling 🥾 🥾
richardmclellan.blogspot.com/2012/01/livi...
November 25, 2024 at 2:03 AM
Have fond memories of our time in Switzerland 🇨🇭
Wrote a blog: Jura Mountain Rambling 🥾 🥾
richardmclellan.blogspot.com/2012/01/livi...
Wrote a blog: Jura Mountain Rambling 🥾 🥾
richardmclellan.blogspot.com/2012/01/livi...
"Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor
The rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows"
– Leonard Cohen
The poor stay poor
The rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows"
– Leonard Cohen
November 21, 2024 at 4:50 AM
"Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor
The rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows"
– Leonard Cohen
The poor stay poor
The rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows"
– Leonard Cohen
Still most probably the most influential book on my career in ecology:
Between Wodjil and Tor— by Barbara York Main
Between Wodjil and Tor— by Barbara York Main
November 17, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Still most probably the most influential book on my career in ecology:
Between Wodjil and Tor— by Barbara York Main
Between Wodjil and Tor— by Barbara York Main
Go figure!? After two years of assessment the Australian government couldn’t decide if Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) is a threatened species or not.
YET … It was listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species three years ago (in 2021).
www.iucnredlist.org/species/pdf/...
YET … It was listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species three years ago (in 2021).
www.iucnredlist.org/species/pdf/...
November 16, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Go figure!? After two years of assessment the Australian government couldn’t decide if Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) is a threatened species or not.
YET … It was listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species three years ago (in 2021).
www.iucnredlist.org/species/pdf/...
YET … It was listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species three years ago (in 2021).
www.iucnredlist.org/species/pdf/...
Good to be here 🦋 … away from the once magnificent site now fucked over by a fascist, narcissistic, megalomaniac oligarch 💩
November 15, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Good to be here 🦋 … away from the once magnificent site now fucked over by a fascist, narcissistic, megalomaniac oligarch 💩
So pleasing to see the focus on conserving highly threatened Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) in the Alinytjara Wilurara Landscape Plan.
Sandalwood is a culturally important threatened species.
cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/landscape/do...
#PartOfTheSolution #TEK
Sandalwood is a culturally important threatened species.
cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/landscape/do...
#PartOfTheSolution #TEK
November 12, 2024 at 10:46 PM
So pleasing to see the focus on conserving highly threatened Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) in the Alinytjara Wilurara Landscape Plan.
Sandalwood is a culturally important threatened species.
cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/landscape/do...
#PartOfTheSolution #TEK
Sandalwood is a culturally important threatened species.
cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/landscape/do...
#PartOfTheSolution #TEK
Fabulous work being done by AW Landscape teams protecting Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) and Quandong (S. acuminatum) on APY Lands (Alinytjara Wilurara NRM Country) in South Australia.
#ThreatenedSpecies @AWLandscapeSA
#PartOfTheSolution
#ThreatenedSpecies @AWLandscapeSA
#PartOfTheSolution
November 12, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Fabulous work being done by AW Landscape teams protecting Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) and Quandong (S. acuminatum) on APY Lands (Alinytjara Wilurara NRM Country) in South Australia.
#ThreatenedSpecies @AWLandscapeSA
#PartOfTheSolution
#ThreatenedSpecies @AWLandscapeSA
#PartOfTheSolution
What part of sandalwood is "not regenerating" and "is not being sustainably harvested" didn't the Australian and Western Australian governments get when they recently decided to defer Australian sandalwood's #ThreatenedSpecies listing for another two years?
November 10, 2024 at 5:22 AM
What part of sandalwood is "not regenerating" and "is not being sustainably harvested" didn't the Australian and Western Australian governments get when they recently decided to defer Australian sandalwood's #ThreatenedSpecies listing for another two years?
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?
November 10, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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?
Caring about the environment (in Australia, in 2023)
Cartoon by @kudelka.bsky.social
Cartoon by @kudelka.bsky.social
October 27, 2023 at 10:52 AM
Caring about the environment (in Australia, in 2023)
Cartoon by @kudelka.bsky.social
Cartoon by @kudelka.bsky.social
“I bet the people are happy”
September 23, 2023 at 4:45 AM
“I bet the people are happy”
Doesn’t pass the pub test. (And the West Australian Govern’t knows it).
Why else would they blank-out that the author of the Sandalwood Biodiversity Management Program is a career forester from the WA forests department — specifically brought over to DBCA to write this 1/3
Why else would they blank-out that the author of the Sandalwood Biodiversity Management Program is a career forester from the WA forests department — specifically brought over to DBCA to write this 1/3
September 22, 2023 at 5:26 AM
Doesn’t pass the pub test. (And the West Australian Govern’t knows it).
Why else would they blank-out that the author of the Sandalwood Biodiversity Management Program is a career forester from the WA forests department — specifically brought over to DBCA to write this 1/3
Why else would they blank-out that the author of the Sandalwood Biodiversity Management Program is a career forester from the WA forests department — specifically brought over to DBCA to write this 1/3
Read it and weep: the WA government’s ‘Sandalwood Biodiversity Management Plan … which has its first objective (in spite of internationally recognised unsustainable legal harvest) … to continue to harvest the species.
www.dbca.wa.gov.au/management/p...
www.dbca.wa.gov.au/management/p...
September 22, 2023 at 5:25 AM
Read it and weep: the WA government’s ‘Sandalwood Biodiversity Management Plan … which has its first objective (in spite of internationally recognised unsustainable legal harvest) … to continue to harvest the species.
www.dbca.wa.gov.au/management/p...
www.dbca.wa.gov.au/management/p...
“The sandalwood industry of Western Australia is now practically non-existent. It was once a thriving industry.
But ... “Before 5,000 tons of the wood had been exported, reference was made to its scarcity within easy distance of a port of shipment” – Robertson, (1958)
But ... “Before 5,000 tons of the wood had been exported, reference was made to its scarcity within easy distance of a port of shipment” – Robertson, (1958)
August 8, 2023 at 5:21 AM
“The sandalwood industry of Western Australia is now practically non-existent. It was once a thriving industry.
But ... “Before 5,000 tons of the wood had been exported, reference was made to its scarcity within easy distance of a port of shipment” – Robertson, (1958)
But ... “Before 5,000 tons of the wood had been exported, reference was made to its scarcity within easy distance of a port of shipment” – Robertson, (1958)
Our resident Tawny Frogmouths with last year’s chick.
August 4, 2023 at 12:03 AM
Our resident Tawny Frogmouths with last year’s chick.
Waiting. Waiting. For our two resident Tawny Frogmouths to find this year’s nesting site somewhere on our block. (They choose a different site each year for some reason).
August 3, 2023 at 11:59 PM
Waiting. Waiting. For our two resident Tawny Frogmouths to find this year’s nesting site somewhere on our block. (They choose a different site each year for some reason).
An environmental disaster unfolding in the Mojave Desert: iconic, ancient and fire-prone Joshua trees are being obliterated as California's biggest fire of the year crosses into Nevada
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-31/york-fire-in-mojave-desert-grows-to-77000-acres
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-31/york-fire-in-mojave-desert-grows-to-77000-acres
August 3, 2023 at 12:05 PM
An environmental disaster unfolding in the Mojave Desert: iconic, ancient and fire-prone Joshua trees are being obliterated as California's biggest fire of the year crosses into Nevada
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-31/york-fire-in-mojave-desert-grows-to-77000-acres
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-31/york-fire-in-mojave-desert-grows-to-77000-acres
Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) is a Vulnerable threatened species. It is on a trajectory towards becoming extinct in the wild — IUCN Red List.
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/pdf/172724334
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/pdf/172724334
August 3, 2023 at 11:43 AM
Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) is a Vulnerable threatened species. It is on a trajectory towards becoming extinct in the wild — IUCN Red List.
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/pdf/172724334
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/pdf/172724334
“Overharvesting and trade in ivory (top, left and right) has decimated the population of African elephants. Similar images exist of the immense impact of over-harvesting of sandalwood in Western Australia” 2/2
August 3, 2023 at 11:14 AM
“Overharvesting and trade in ivory (top, left and right) has decimated the population of African elephants. Similar images exist of the immense impact of over-harvesting of sandalwood in Western Australia” 2/2
“Like a load of bleached bones, the wood arrives at the Fremantle factory”
There are many parallels between the overexploitation of Australian sandalwood and the legal overexploitation of commercially valuable wildlife species. Legal, yes ... but by no means sustainable. 1/2
There are many parallels between the overexploitation of Australian sandalwood and the legal overexploitation of commercially valuable wildlife species. Legal, yes ... but by no means sustainable. 1/2
August 3, 2023 at 11:13 AM
“Like a load of bleached bones, the wood arrives at the Fremantle factory”
There are many parallels between the overexploitation of Australian sandalwood and the legal overexploitation of commercially valuable wildlife species. Legal, yes ... but by no means sustainable. 1/2
There are many parallels between the overexploitation of Australian sandalwood and the legal overexploitation of commercially valuable wildlife species. Legal, yes ... but by no means sustainable. 1/2
Seems apt to post this here on Bluesky. RIP Twitter.
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Clever ad from WWF-Germany: “Protect our wildlife / animal species, before it’s too late”
#extinction #ThreatenedSpecies
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Clever ad from WWF-Germany: “Protect our wildlife / animal species, before it’s too late”
#extinction #ThreatenedSpecies
August 3, 2023 at 7:28 AM
Seems apt to post this here on Bluesky. RIP Twitter.
☠️
Clever ad from WWF-Germany: “Protect our wildlife / animal species, before it’s too late”
#extinction #ThreatenedSpecies
☠️
Clever ad from WWF-Germany: “Protect our wildlife / animal species, before it’s too late”
#extinction #ThreatenedSpecies
A glorious double rainbow this morning and 26mm in the rain gauge. Seems appropriate to post on Day 1 on BlueSky.
#Gnurlunga #YamajiCountry
#Gnurlunga #YamajiCountry
August 3, 2023 at 3:39 AM
A glorious double rainbow this morning and 26mm in the rain gauge. Seems appropriate to post on Day 1 on BlueSky.
#Gnurlunga #YamajiCountry
#Gnurlunga #YamajiCountry
Australian sandalwood — a species at risk of extinction in the wild due to more than a century of sandalwood mismanagement. From 1920:
"It was inevitable, perhaps, that sandalwood should be destroyed as settlement progressed".
The Western Mail, September 1920
Photo: Battye Library, Perth WA.
"It was inevitable, perhaps, that sandalwood should be destroyed as settlement progressed".
The Western Mail, September 1920
Photo: Battye Library, Perth WA.
August 3, 2023 at 3:30 AM
Australian sandalwood — a species at risk of extinction in the wild due to more than a century of sandalwood mismanagement. From 1920:
"It was inevitable, perhaps, that sandalwood should be destroyed as settlement progressed".
The Western Mail, September 1920
Photo: Battye Library, Perth WA.
"It was inevitable, perhaps, that sandalwood should be destroyed as settlement progressed".
The Western Mail, September 1920
Photo: Battye Library, Perth WA.