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I am truly worried that we will get caught up in yet another overseas war.

A chronic welfare crisis... has been unfolding quietly since the 1990s. The root cause? Rampant habitat loss and the relentless expansion of the blue gum plantation industry.

With their native forests destroyed, koalas are forced to seek shelter in blue gum plantations—a dangerous and temporary refuge. When harvesting begins, koalas risk being injured or killed as the trees they rely on are cut down. Those that survive are left homeless, with nowhere safe to go.

The landscape has now reached a tipping point. It simply can no longer support the koalas that depend on it.

Starving, emaciated koalas are falling from trees, being brought into care—many too far gone to be saved. And for those that survive, there is no safe habitat left to return to.

This travesty has been hidden behind closed doors for far too long. A comprehensive and transparent investigation is long overdue.

A permanent ban on fracking is back on the agenda in Tasmania with the Tasmanian Greens planning to introduce a bill to ban the harmful practice in the opening days of parliament.

The state has maintained a temporary ban on hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking) for oil and gas since 2015, extending five-year moratoriums in 2020 and again in 2025.

However, the Greens want to follow Victoria’s lead and rule it out permanently.

Some of you may be interested in signing. Already fairly close to ten thousand have signed.

I'm going to see if this works. I've taken two print screens of this article (Renew magazine No. 174) which tests products that are fabricated to keep produce fresh for longer in your fridge.

With the horrific destruction that is happening in the ME right now and the disruption to oil supplies, food is going to become more expensive so it makes sense not to have to throw it out because we let it wilt in the crisper. Even under normal circumstances, throwing food out is bad for the environment as well as our budget.

So, after rule number 1: Don't overbuy fresh produce, and rule no. 2: Grow what you can, if you can, and pick it fresh, keeping what you have stored fresher for longer makes sense.

Also share any edible excess with those who may be struggling financially.

I just heard the founder of Buy Nothing New Month this morning and about this website. We don't have to wait for a particular month to take small actions (or large). The site is full of great ideas and apart from benefiting the environment, you will be benefiting your wallet. https://www.buynothingnew.com.au/

Ok, so this is written up by the Fed Govt, but we need to know about it so we can hold them to account. And I don't know why they don't mention the WA's Ningaloo Coast.

Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean yet support a quarter of all marine life. They also support nearly one billion people worldwide. Protecting reefs globally is critical.

More than 70% of reefs around the world are threatened by climate change. These reefs are experiencing severe coral bleaching.

Climate-resilient coral reefs are more able to survive, recover from and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Australia is leading one of the world’s largest collective efforts to support a climate-resilient Great Barrier Reef.

Royalties from oil and gas extraction are on a sharp downward trend, according to WA budget papers... less than 1 per cent of the state’s revenue and barely 6 per cent of the $6.6 billion in royalties from iron ore.

Commercial fishing contributes more than $1 billion to the state’s economy each year... and most of the industry consists of small family businesses.

While the state government isn’t discrediting the science surrounding seismic blasting impacts, they’re seemingly ignoring it in this case.

For Western Australia’s most at-risk demersal fish species, the fishing ban was one step in the right direction, but the seismic blasting approval “is so many steps back”... “Not only because of the immediate impact to the marine ecosystem, but because it supports an industry that we do not need.”

So here’s the uncomfortable question Australians should ask, especially when our leader Anthony Albanese was so quick to line up behind the strikes: what exactly is the theory of change?

Not the slogan. Not the press release. The real theory. How, precisely, does dropping bombs - or killing a dictator - make Iranian women freer, Iranian prisons emptier, Iranian courts fairer, or Iranian politics more accountable? And how does it secure long-term peace in the Middle East.

If we can’t answer that in plain language, then we are not looking at a pathway to peace and human rights. We’re looking at protracted violence and dysfunction dressed up as virtue.

"Overall, Australia’s emissions are 27.4% lower than they were in 2005. Given the 2030 target is for a them to be 57% lower than in 2005, that suggest we have a long way to go and at lot faster rate.

But the problem is greatly compounded when you realise that almost all of the cut since 2005 has come from ‘land use’ which is due to the fact that in 2005 there was massive land clearing in Queensland (especially) and because we no longer clear as must land, it looks like we have ‘reduced emissions'...

If you exclude land clearing, Australia’s emissions in 2025 are just 3% lower than they were in 2005 – that’s a very long way from a 57% cut, let alone the 70% cut that is the 20235 target."

Any ideas here of what our govt needs to do to cut these emissions like they need to be?

This lizard is critically endangered due to all the usual suspects: habitat loss, feral animals, pesticides and climate warming.

For more info check out this video of the little lizard thought to be extinct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiyvIP9uz-E