Blue, blue, my world is blue!!!

#Bird #Birding #Tanager #Photograph #BirdPhotography #Neotropics #Biodversity #Nature #Outdoors

Can Europe save the koala?

Europe must stop funding Australian deforestation. A report into Europe’s role in solving Australia’s deforestation and extinction crisis.
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https://www.wilderness.org.au/protecting-nature/biodiversity-and-extinction/can-europe-save-the-koala
#deforestation #ExtinctionCrisis #LoggingImpacts #biodversity #EUDR #EU #SupplyChains #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NativeForests #destruction #governance #Australia

Traumatised koalas in clear felled forests on the mid-north coast
The Carbon Credit Grift Destroying Koala Habitat

"The NSW Labor Government took office promising to create a vast koala sanctuary on the state’s mid-north coast – the Great Koala National Park. Despite the threat of koala extinction in the state, more than a year later the Great Koala National Park is yet to be established.
Last year, NSW Premier Chris Minns' remarkable admission disclosed a further motive for the go-slow: the government is reluctant to create the new national park or end logging and land clearing that is destroying koala habitat until it secures another way to make money from the trees. In essence, it wants to exploit the forests for carbon credits."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDzW-f8y8F0

Are koalas being traded for carbon credits? (audio)
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/koala-carbon-credits-stephen-long/103687144

End all logging in public native forests and koala habitat
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/video-report-the-carbon-credit-grift-destroying-koala-habitat/

"Dr Henry, who chairs the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, said the government should establish a public fund to spur corporate involvement in “nature-positive” land protection and repair."
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/henry-demands-billions-for-nature-repair-market-20240409-p5fiho

#NSWLogging #FCNSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction #PineCreek #MidNorthcCoast #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #koalas #biodversity #GumbaynggirrCountry #ClimateCrisis #governance #failure #FossilFuels #NativeForests #biodiversity #extractivism #offsets #NaturePositive #extinction makers

@bicmay And you've highlighted a big issue - we are so used to so many small and insignificant behaviors, we fail to grasp the cumulative and system wide effects.

Yes, one person's single action has no observable effect and seems insignificant.

But that same action, regularly repeated by that individual AND also repeated by many others, has a much larger impact. To address the #ClimateCrisis and #Biodversity/ #SpeciesExtinction all of these small individual things matter.

"Wild animals account for only 0.3% of the carbon in the total global biomass, but can cause anywhere between 15% and 250% difference in how much carbon is stored in a given ecosystem"

#climatechange #biodversity #wildlife

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/19/elephants-otters-whales-nature-climate-breakdown-carbon-ecosystems

RT @CrisHdez2000: At @REA_research we work to improve numerous areas, including #policy level

If you want to learn more, check below the recent #HorizonEU @BCubedProject, or other on-going projects such as @SELINAHorizonEU

Our best wishes to this promising project ‼️

#biodversity #Havingimpact

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/REA_research/status/1641420141396205568

Assessing the health of the National Marine Parks and Sanctuaries in #Victoria, #Australia (including of the amazing #PortPhillipBay, which I'm so lucky enough to live near).

Learn more about this ecological assessment (in this article in The Age) which presents some encouraging news on life in the sea and some fabulous images of the #marine #biodversity in Victorian coastal waters

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/floating-through-the-dreamscape-of-victoria-s-underwater-forests-20230214-p5ckcw.html

#ecology #MarineEcology