we are living through an #ExtinctionCrisis unlike anything in human history—over a million #species are at risk of disappearing in the coming decades. #ecosystems that have taken millions of years to evolve are unravelling before our eyes, driven by #HabitatDestruction, #climate chaos, #pollution, and endless #extraction. every species lost is a thread pulled from the web of life, and sooner or later, that web collapses.
Brilliant cartoon by @schloriancartoon
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#israelipalestinianconflict
#Climatechange
#ExtinctionCrisis
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“You can stand on coast right now anywhere in Chennai and every few strides, you can see bulge-eyed turtles till the horizon.Over 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles wash ashore in southern India."
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/01/over-1100-dead-olive-ridley-turtles-wash-ashore-in-southern-india/
#marine #turtles #biodiversity #FishingIndustry #fishing #ExtinctionCrisis
U.S. wildlife officials plan to list #monarch #butterflies as threatened species | AP News https://apnews.com/article/monarch-butterflies-endangered-species-climate-habitat-f5d4844289ede7b3d76918cc6f98a5cc #Climate #ExtinctionCrisis
Deal to protect Australia's native forests blocked amid 'bullying' claims
"Australia has the highest rate of mammalian extinction in the world, it is the only developed nation declared a deforestation hotspot and there are more than 2,200 species listed by the Commonwealth as threatened with extinction. A new deal would have protected what remains of the nation's forests." >>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/deal-to-protect-australias-native-forests-blocked-amid-bullying-claims-031816212.html
Anthony Albanese kills last-ditch environmental protection laws with crossbench
"The prime minister has been bullied by the mining and logging lobby again. The Greens want to get laws that would actually provide some protection for nature, but Labor couldn't even entertain protecting forests and critical habitat in an extinction crisis.">>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/albanese-kills-environmental-protection-reforms/104651976
#NSWLogging #loggingIndustry #governance #deforestation #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #biodiversity #Australia #koalas #ResourceFrontiers #ExtinctionCrisis
"In a globally-disgraceful move, Julie Collins, PM Albanese’s new Minister for Forests, has actively helped pull the rug from under a European Union law to stop global deforestation by delaying its implementation another year...Australia has joined an embarrassing global line up of forest, wildlife and climate destroyers in lobbying for this delay and shamelessly welcoming it."
https://bobbrown.org.au/minister-for-forests-julie-collins-will-break-young-australias-hearts-brown/
#deforestation #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #SupplyChains #EUDR #EU #ExtinctionCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #forests #Australia #destruction
California now has the dubious distinction of being a world leader in its endemic freshwater fishes likely to be driven to extinction 
And we know why, as @jarosenfield and Gary Bobker write: "California habitually fails to enforce environmental laws designed to protect our aquatic ecosystems. Following the state’s lead, federal agencies skimp on environmental safeguards and waive the meager protections they do offer any time protecting the public’s fish, wildlife, waterways, and water quality, gets in the way of diverting more water to meet California’s seemingly unquenchable demand."
https://mavensnotebook.com/2024/09/05/commentary-failure-to-implement-environmental-laws-shows-whats-really-in-store-for-the-endangered-san-francisco-bay-delta-ecosystem/
'Repair' much of the past two centuries of degradation
Australia’s environment could be fixed and threatened species saved for just 0.3% of GDP
The "Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists estimates $7.3bn a year for 30 years could avoid most extinctions, repair soils and restore rivers."
"Australia’s spectacular and unique landscapes and beloved wildlife were a drawcard for domestic and international tourists alike, bringing billions of dollars into the Australian economy every year ... Many Australians did not realise that “all of this is genuinely under threat”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/australia-environment-endangered-species-fixed-gdp
#biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #degradation #NatureCrisis #conservation #repair #environmentallaws #ClimateAction #Australia #LandClearing #sprawl
Keeping watch over greater gliders in a forest targeted for logging
“No tree hollows – no owls, no gliders, no black cockatoos, no bats. A hollow can take 150 to 200 years to form.”
Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie on the New South Wales mid-north coast is to be logged by the state-owned NSW Forestry Corporation.
"This unburnt forest – with its habitat for threatened species including the koala and glossy-black cockatoo, and critically endangered plants such as the rainforest tree Rhodamnia rubescens – has been a target for logging."
The Henry review "identified that native forest logging was damaging ecosystems and species and called for legislation related to biodiversity to be given primacy over other land management laws, including those that govern logging."
The greater glider population "halved in little more than 20 years, and it was listed under national environmental laws as endangered in 2022."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/20/australia-greater-gliders-endangered-species-list-protection
#BulgaSF #Henry #RFAs #BiodiversityCrisis #gliders #SaveBulgaForests #NSWlogging #FCNSW #StopNativeForestLogging #ExtinctionCrisis #NSW #MidNorthCoast
Australian biodiversity conservation and 'fighting the government.'
"A rare legal win for an ecologist over a violent confrontation with NSW loggers exposed years of intimidation from corporate forestry representatives and law enforcement ."
"In environmental science circles, state surveillance and persecution of an ecologist whose findings refute or debunk state land management practices surprises no one. Last year, the International Science Council, a body representing more than 250 organisations, summarised that “the findings of environmental scientists … have long triggered censorship, intimidation, harassment and even violence when these challenge economic interests, political agendas, or ideologies”. It reported that scientists “have been physically attacked, wrongfully detained, and killed for their research and advocacy … threats and attacks are widespread in virtually all fields examining human impact on the environment”.
"A 2021 joint university study of Australian environmental scientists found more than half employed in industry or government “are routinely constrained in communicating scientific evidence on threatened species, mining, logging and other threats to the environment”. In some cases, “scientists self-censor information for fear of damaging their careers, losing funding or being misrepresented in the media. In others, senior managers or ministers’ officers prevented researchers from speaking truthfully on scientific matters...In all logged states, time spent fighting the government has overtaken the fieldwork time of ecologists and forest researchers."
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https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2024/june/katherine-wilson/combative-nature#mtr
#NSWForestry #NSWLogging #LoggingImpacts #breaches #violence #GumbainggirCountry #activism #ecology #conservation #science #researchers #Koalas #ThreatenedSpecies #extractivism #mining #logging #defamation #surveillance #CoffsHarbour #Gondwana #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #ExtinctionCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #democracy #governance #Australia
"Ecosystem services" for ALL living beings
"Solving our current ecological and social crises requires a radical transformation of humanity's relationship to the global ecosystems that sustain all life."
At present there is government paralysis and "we keep voting in people who are OK with prolonging the use of fossil fuels, the very thing that is cooking our planet".
We have an egocentric approach to nature, despite knowing that without the environment, there's no economy.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-12/albanese-government-fed-budget-scientists-warn-climate-change/103834644
"Nature does not revolve around humans any more than the sun revolves around the Earth...Ecosystem services are co-created by all species; humans must stop free-riding."
"We redefine ecosystem services as nature’s benefits to the biotic community of which humans are a part...The Ecozoic is defined as an era characterized by the mutual flourishing of humans and the rest of Nature.
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Rethinking ecosystem services from the anthropocene to the Ecozoic: Nature’s benefits to the biotic community
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212041624000305?dgcid=coauthor
Ecosystem Services Key concepts and applications, au gov
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https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/ecosystem-services.pdf
#nature #EcosystemServices #egocentrism #Australia #resources #TAKEApproach #anthropocentrism #biodiversity #conservation #ecosystems #Ecozoic #biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis
Bulldozing the Gouldian Finch habitat and getting away with it
"People travel from all over the world to see Australia's iconic wildlife, and Lee Point is no exception to that. People have had the amazing experience of seeing Gordian finches close to a major city, Darwin...It's deeply embarrassing. Australia has absolutely shameful records of conservation and this just contributes to that."
Wildlife ecologist Professor Euan Ritchie "submitted a formal letter to the government and attached several videos that appear to show trees being flattened without fauna spotters directly supervising. “They knew there were endangered species. How can they get away with this?” "
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/aussie-housing-developers-deeply-embarrassing-destruction-of-ancient-forest-sparks-global-condemnation-035027194.html
#LeePoint #biodiversity #birds #Australia #reputation #LandClearing #EndangeredSpecies #ExtinctionCrisis
Australia’s long-sought stronger environmental laws just got indefinitely deferred. It’s back to business as usual
"Labor promised substantive change that would prevent further species extinctions. But yesterday’s announcement was basically the continuation of business as usual.
Yesterday’s announcement effectively defers substantive change until after the next federal election."
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https://theconversation.com/australias-long-sought-stronger-environmental-laws-just-got-indefinitely-deferred-its-back-to-business-as-usual-228090
#BiodiversityCrisis #NaturePositive #ExtinctionCrisis #EPBCAct #governance #failure
If we cannot trust #Labour on the ecology, what does the economy matter? Even the soundest money is worthless on a dead planet.
#ClimateEmergency
#ExtinctionCrisis
#ThereIsNoPlanetB
#ThereIsNoEconomyOnADeadPlanet
A rise in cruelty cases
"Native species are being harmed in record numbers."
"Vehicles are the leading cause of animal injuries."
"Australian animals under record threat from climate, cars, illegal pet-keeping."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-28/australian-wildlife-threatened-illegal-pets-record-harm/103384664
#native #wildlife #habitat #cars #roads #motorists #roadkill #violence #culture #ExtinctionCrisis
Humans May Have Driven Twice as Many Bird Species to Extinction as Previously Thought
Statistical modeling of undiscovered extinctions suggests 1,430 bird species have disappeared during modern human history
"Biodiversity: Almost half of animals in decline, research shows
Almost half of the earth's animal species are currently declining, according to research led by Queen's University Belfast (QUB).
The study examined population densities of more than 70,000 animals and researchers say it is the most comprehensive record to date.
It found 48% of species on earth are currently undergoing population declines, with less than 3% increasing.
Researchers said it was a drastic alert on the global erosion of biodiversity."
Bravo, humans. Bravo.
You do realise you’ll be next, don’t you?
(Thank Dawkins I’m at the right end of my life. I really don’t understand *anyone* wanting to spawn children into this catastrophe).
Biodiversity Is Nearing an ‘#ExtinctionCrisis,’ Animal Researchers Say
Devastating news: The Yangtze giant softshell turtle, once considered one of the world's most endangered species, is now officially extinct.
This loss highlights the urgent need for conservation efforts to protect our planet's incredible biodiversity. 
Appalling’ Earth Day greenwashing must not detract from message, says protest founder
Denis Hayes, who coordinated the first event in 1970, denounces fossil fuel companies that use the event to get positive publicity
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