Plantation owners call for killing permits for native flying foxes

"Currently, farmers with a permit can kill up to eight grey-headed, 45 black and 50 little red flying foxes annually, and must report each death."

"[Flying foxes] are a native species … they are our only long-distance night pollinators. Flying foxes are losing a lot of their normal habitat, forcing them inland, and so they take risky actions to get food like going into yards and orchards."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-09-22/farmers-call-for-rethink-on-shooting-permits-for-flying-foxes/105788750
#Plantations #food #netting #ExclusionNetting #CostOfDoingBusiness #CODB #monoculture #biodiversity #bats #FlyingFoxes #pollinators #conservation #wildlife

Bulldozing the habitat of endangered species in NSW

"The Australian Conservation Foundation is alleging thousands of hectares of endangered species habitat has been illegally cleared in south-west New South Wales between 2021 and 2025."

"Experts say land clearing rates are unlikely to be reduced without education and effective enforcement..A lot more land is being cleared than grown back or restored which is unusual for a wealthy, developed country like ours."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-04/mallee-land-clearing-conservation-foundation-endangered-species/105098584
#biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #NSW #LandClearing #farmers #landholders #crime #wildlife #birds #ClimateBreakdown #EPBCAct #regulation #enforcement #CostofDoingBusiness #extractivism

A fine is just that: it’s fine. Just pay us a cut of your profits and keep doing what you’re doing.

#fines #capitalism #costOfDoingBusiness

@EU_Commission @bart
Thanks. Unfortunately, this gets into the '#costOfDoingBusiness' realm, which is unlikely to deter the technoFeudalists much.

They may pretend to care but they secretly won't.

They get money printed, to extract from us. That is their business model, so when they are threatened with fines all that does is increase #inflation.

tl/dr: We still lose, #EU just cashes in. Blocking the technoFeudalist at the network level should be considered as part of a comprehensive strategy.