Aussie Enviro

If you are are driving outside of a city and find injured wildlife on the side of the road, or witness, or are involved yourself in striking an animal, this App might be useful in finding the closest wildlife carer to where you are. I don't know how comprehensive it is for every state but having someone to call IS a big help. Whoever answers will guide you in what you need to do.

If you know someone who is a registered wildlife carer who is not on the list and would like to be on it, they can also register at the above web address.

As different Australian states are dealing with different climate disasters, and wildlife is left without natural food sources, there are ways you can help. Know what foods to provide for different species but also what is NOT suitable. Share this info, you may help save a life.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/28121407

Hamilton believes his new research highlights a blind spot in the government’s response to climate change. When our leaders do address the climate crisis their focus is on mitigation – reducing greenhouse gas emissions to help slow global climate change. This is crucial, says Hamilton, but it ignores the fact that much warming is already locked in, and that Australia cannot protect itself with its own carbon pollution reductions.

“They are not talking about the change that is already coming down the highway,” he says. He believes the government should be making climate adaptation more central to the national debate. Absent government leadership, he says, some people – those with means and climate education – are beginning to adapt their own way.

We've done the same after being pushed out of Northern NSW, just as that finished, we hunkered down on the Gold Coast during covid (which was great sans tourists) and then tried NZ but house prices were worse then Australia, so ended up in Northern Tassie.

I do have to question the sanity of Ms Burridge who moved to a wooded area around Hobart after being a bush fire escapee ? Tassie has warm rain free summers, fires arent as intense but they are still dangerous. There are articles aboit tje super high bushfire risk around Hobart becase of urban sprawl into wooded areas and Hobart ? Why Hobart ?

Our place in Tassie is miles from any forest (zero fire risk), surrounded by rolling bucolic hills and up on a small hillock with zero flood risk. We discarded looking at more more then 50 houses in Tassie becase of the high bushfire risk, maybe as my partner was an ex RFS Bushfire Captain, she had a more critical eye but still ?

We might see Australians sorting themselves into different kinds of communities, ones that take climate change much more seriously, that build resilience in how they live in their homes, in their town planning, in their infrastructure, in their communities, and others where climate change is not taken seriously and which are therefore more severely buffeted by the extreme events that will increase in the coming decades.

“We may well see a kind of reshuffling of the Australian population where people who are more alert and more aware move towards climate-safe areas whereas others remain in places that are far more prone to the stress of climate change.

I:d quesrion the assumption they take it seriousl We're certinaly not seeing that reflected in peoples voting patterns. No one voting ALP/LNP is taking clinate change seriously, at most, for those voters it's an afterthought on a hot day.

Youtube video description:

Australia is home to some beautiful birds, but not all of the birds you see day to day, are locals. Introduced species are a huge problem but we seldom think about the guys that take to the skies. In this episode of bird security we're taking aim at some feathered fiends. First we’ll be looking at the "big five". The flying ferals who went from bird bath to bloodbath. Then we turn our attention to some of those lesser known arrivals. Who are they? How did they get here? And why they such c*nts?

Aussie Bird Count Statistics

• 158,180 - Checklists submitted
• 684 - Species sighted
• 5,273,842 - Birds sighted

Click the link to look at the list of birds, its bloody huge, where the fuck are all these birds!?! So many more different types of birds than I thought would be counted.

Lucky's Story - Aussie Ark - YT ^not actual video title^

Just had to chase the neighbors cat away from a juvenile kookaburra that was on the ground in our yard. The cat has been on the other side of the fence waiting for its chance to finish the job.

We put the bird in a cardboard box to take to the local vet tomorrow.

Can anyone give me any good reason why cats are still allowed to roam free without consequence in this country?

Update: We were woken by cat noises again this morning. After a safe and quiet night in a box the fledgling kookaburra was released where it was found and after several attempts it managed to fly up onto a roof where it will at least be safe from ground based predators today. Multiple adults birds in the area this morning and some amazing bird calls.

A recent report by Oil Change International found Australia led the world in expanding its oil and gas industries between 2015 and 2024, increasing production by 77%.

On coal, Australia is shipping more of the thermal stuff than it was a decade ago. And the Albanese government has approved at least 32 fossil fuel developments and expansions since its election in 2022, overwhelmingly for export

#Vote Green

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/collapse/p/1554065/we-watched-these-coral-colonies-succumb-to-black-band-disease-6-months-later-75-were-de

During the last global coral bleaching event in 2023 and 2024 , the Great Barrier Reef experienced the highest temperatures for centuries and widespread bleaching. With bleaching events becoming more frequent, the very existence of coral reefs is under threat.

A Manjimup fisherman says the State Government has ignored more than a decade of community warnings about declining fish stocks, amid fears the recent West Coast gillnet ban will create new pressures further south.

On December 3, the State Government announced a full closure of all commercial demersal gillnetting in the West Coast bioregion.

It includes a 50 per cent commercial catch reduction for zone two on the South Coast.The West Coast bioregion will become an exclusively recreational fishing zone for snapper and dhufish following a 21-month recovery closure for boat-based recreational fishing, remaining permanently closed to commercial fishing for demersal fish from January 1, with a compulsory buyback of commercial fishing licences.

The reforms aim to protect demersal fish like pink snapper, red emperor and dhufish from extinction and to help stocks recover for future generations, with scientific stock assessments of WA’s prized demersal fish showing species are under “severe threat”.Under the reforms, the West Coast fishing region from Kalbarri to Augusta will not reopen on December 16.

While many fishers are worried this will mark the end of their businesses, Manjimup man Wayne Pedretti, who has been campaigning to save the region’s fish stocks for years, believes it could just push the problem further south.

He remains concerned about the vulnerability of local species.

Having fished in the Broke Inlet, 25km west of Walpole, for nearly 50 years, Mr Pedretti said the well-known breeding ground for pink snapper and groper remained dangerously unprotected, despite years of warnings.

Mr Pedretti told the Times he had repeatedly voiced his fears to governing bodies as part of the group Save Our Fish Stocks, formed 13 years ago.

The group believes netting should be banned at Broke Inlet to protect the breeding grounds.“We were told over a decade ago that the commercial sector would reduce their catch by 50 per cent — we thought we finally had a win,” he said.

“But the very next day, they reneged. If they had stuck to that agreement, maybe we wouldn’t be going through this now.”

Mr Pedretti is increasingly frustrated at the lack of action, and said he had offered to take decision-makers to the inlet to show them the problem first-hand

“I offered to set a small 60m net overnight and show them the hundreds of dead pink snapper and groper we would get in that net in the morning,” he said.

“I could explain that the pros use kilometres of net, then they might be able to see the damage, but they were never interested.”

He said the threat of gillnetting boats coming into South Coast waters to avoid the complete ban would devastate the region — and it was already happening.

“A mate called me and said they’re all down netting along Long Point, west of Walpole,” he said.

“They are going hammer and tongs before the reduction kicks in. If they are allowed to continue in this way, the breeding stocks will be pillaged and the inlet and the region will never recover.”Premier Roger Cook said the changes had been “difficult decisions to make” but it was “the right thing to do”.

“We want our kids and grandkids to be able to enjoy fishing in our beautiful State into the future,” he said.

“Our iconic demersal fish species like dhufish and snapper are on the verge of extinction in some parts of WA, so we need to take urgent action to save them for the future generations of fishers.

“We know that these reforms will have a large impact on the fishing industry and sectors, and we have been working with them closely throughout this decision-making process.

“We will be providing a $29.2 million Fisheries Support Package to help them to adapt to the incoming reforms and establishing an advisory council to provide guidance as the reforms are implemented.”

Some key quotes from the article,

The AEMO has slashed the amount of wind generation capacity it says should be added by the end of the decade from 42.6 gigawatts to 26 gigawatts

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Whereas the AEMO had in 2024 said 10,000 kilometres of new transmission lines were needed by 2050, it says this figure is now expected to be about 6,000km.

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Notably, none of the new capacity under construction was wind, Mr Dixon said, a sure sign of the industry's struggles.

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Mr Dixon said the cost of building both had jumped in recent years, especially for high-voltage lines, which in some cases were now two to three times more expensive to build than a few years ago.

By contrast, he noted that costs for solar panels and batteries had fallen by 6 per cent and as much as 50 per cent, respectively, since 2022.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/30846832

The Coalition’s tortuous decision to abandon the climate target was built on a big lie, that the recent increases in power prices are the result of the transition to renewables – even though wholesale electricity prices have been falling.

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Edit: If you suspect a bird is sick or there are unusual deaths avoid touching it, take photos or videos and record the location if possible. Report it all to the Emergency Animal Disease Hotline 1800 675 888 https://birdlife.org.au/h5-bird-flu-avoid-record-report/

There’s also AviFluMap https://birdlife.org.au/h5n1-avian-influenza/