Aussie Enviro

It's an absolute waste of taxpayer dollars if the Tasmanian government is going to pour grants into these grassroots bush regeneration projects but fails to tackle the invasive species that are trashing, tramping and degrading the parks in the first place," she said.

.Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds

An Australian review of existing studies has argued that “the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is generally recognised”.

The carbon footprint of pets is also significant. A 2020 study found the dry pet food industry had an environmental footprint of around twice the land area of the UK, with greenhouse gas emissions – 56 to 151 Mt CO2 – equivalent to the 60th highest-emitting country.

Let alone in Austrailia the enormous death rate from koalas from dogs.

But the High Court found people whose private interests were affected or who had a special interest, such as long-standing concern about logging and its effect on certain species, could bring prosecutions.

This could be quite significant.

It potentially restricts vexatious legal challenges by otherwise unconnected parties to hold up projects. Narrowing or reaffirming the size of the field of persons with a recognised claim.

I cannot find an article as evidence so if i'm wrong on the below, sorry, and please don't rely on my memory here.

Disclaimer aside, I'm sure i heard that vexatious legal challenges from non-local actors have been used to help cripple wind farm investments in NSW in the past. If this is true, then this High Court decision could make vexatious campaigns like that harder to implement.

I must have heard it on a podcast, instead of reading it, i think.

Most parliamentarians might be surprised to learn it, but Australians care about nature.

What, no they don't!

Late last year, the not-for-profit Biodiversity Council commissioned a survey

Ahhh well that's about the extent of the caring then, telling somone over the phone.

I find these articles disturbing for their lack of honesty and insight.

Carbon emisions, Urban sprawl and cars etc solutions? Significant chanhes in lifestyles that won't be tolerated. Voters show us all the time they dont care about nature

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/24199717

A chart speaks 1000 words

Vote Green

Edit: update

Same shit, different year’: Australia records hottest 12 months and warmest March on record

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/australia-records-hottest-12-months-and-warmest-march-weather-on-record

Australia has experienced its hottest 12-month period on record, ending with its hottest March on record, with last month seeing temperatures 2.41C above average, the Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed.

The climate denying goverment of Qld have been busily running around dealing with the impacts of climate changed weather ever since they've been elected that's all they've done (TC Albert before this, flooding in FNQ before that)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/20941256

In short: A new study warns off-road vehicles are causing "serious ecological harm" on beaches.

The study also found there was no safe level of driving.

What's next?

The research has reignited debate over whether 4WDs should be banned from the sand.

In short:

A new study warns off-road vehicles are causing "serious ecological harm" on beaches.

The study also found there was no safe level of driving.

What's next?

The research has reignited debate over whether 4WDs should be banned from the sand.

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a few salient points from the article

To play our part in limiting global warming, Australia needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Progress is stalling: last year, national emissions fell slightly (0.6%) below 2023 levels but were still higher than in 2022. Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions per person remain among the highest in the world.

We fly & drive big cars to travel, we're wealthy and consume. We build no intercity passenger rails instead ,making it easier to fly (new rail one to Melb Airport, expanding Brisbane Airport etc) when we should be shit canning flying, at least domestically.

Even the new inland rail ends which are supposed to help with road safety, road maintenance cost and reduce road emissions, end in the outer suburbs before it even gets to the port of Brisbane and has no spur to Gladstone.

Everything we do is ass backwards so its not surprising

Then we have

Biodiversity loss remains an urgent issue. The national threatened species list grew by 41 species in 2024. While this figure is much lower than the record of 130 species added in 2023, it remains well above the long-term average of 25 species added per year.

More than half of the newly listed or uplisted species were directly affected by the Black Summer fires. Meanwhile, habitat destruction and invasive species continue to put pressure on native ecosystems and species.

TERN.org Report

ANU Climate Update 2025: If not now, when? 13 February, 2025

From the conclusion,

...buffel grass is an important food source for cattle during drought periods.

Buffel doesn’t need to be eradicated from areas where it is valued such as pastoral stations. However, its management is crucial to the survival of our native ecosystems and Traditional Aboriginal knowledge.

Early research is promising. Native plants and animals in the NT have bounced back in areas where buffel has been removed.

Lyall says securing funding, listing the grass as a weed of national significance and supporting farmers to adapt to find an alternative food source are key to beating buffel.

Paladin Hydrogen, owned by Queensland businessman Dave Hodgson, who credits his success with "doing God's will, God's way", had planned to mine 1 million tonnes of coal per year near Fingal to fuel a proposed hydrogen plant at Bell Bay.

Mr Hodgson described his company's takeover of the Valley Road mine as "a transformation of wealth from the wicked to the righteous"

Wtf ????

Tasmanian Greens mining spokesperson Tabatha Badger said it was "absolutely fantastic" that the coal mine was no longer going ahead.

We are in a climate crisis and coal mines have no place in Tasmania, indeed Australia.