The biosecurity officers' fight against fire ants and allegations of threats, harassment and stalking
A Glen Turner Déjà vu

“We’ve had threats of ‘If you come on my property, I’ll shoot you’. ‘If you try and come on my property, I’ll set my dog on you...Australian police are routinely escorting biosecurity officers onto private properties after they reported being threatened with dogs and guns. In cases when people were “incredibly hostile”, program staff would “proactively engage with the police to escort us and to keep the peace and to keep everyone safe in that environment, because we need to complete the treatment”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/03/fire-ants-australia-eradication-biosecurity-officers-queensland-ntwnfb

The environmental officer Glen Turner
was shot in Croppa Creek, near Moree in 2014 investigating illegal land clearing. "There is an interweaving between the physical murder of Glen Turner, and the ecological ‘murder’ of the brigalow through the voracious demand for agricultural land." Book review: ‘The Winter Road’ by Kate Holden
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https://residentjudge.com/2022/04/09/the-winter-road-by-kate-holden/
#conservation #biosecurity #FireAnts #InvasiveSpecies #BiosecurityOfficers #OHS #biodiversity #IllegalLandClearing #GlenTurner #violence #crime #Moree #GoldCoast #Grafton #SunshineCoast #LandOwnership #IndividualPropertyRights #PossessiveIndividualism #liberalism #pseudolaw #community #pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #insecticide #EnvironmentalLaws #NSW

Emptying the ocean

"Dozens of fisheries officers in New South Wales have been threatened with assault while on the job, protecting oceans, rivers and estuaries." The dangers for compliance officers when confronting fishermen.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-29/fishery-officer-safety-police-poaching-organised-crime/104393474
#ocean #poaching #crime #violence #NSW #fishing #enforcement #TakeCulture #biodiversity #Abalone #GlenTurner #Law_enforcement #conservation

"The son of a farmer who shot and killed an environment officer involved in land-clearing prosecutions has been ordered to pay $405,000 by the New South Wales Land and Environment Court in Sydney today."

"The court heard the illegal clearing included Brigalow trees, an endangered species, in a landscape of the New England region that had already been over-cleared."

"The 2014 clearing has had, or is likely to have had, a highly significant effect on the population of koalas on the property and on surrounding properties."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-08/croppa-creek-land-clearing-fine-after-farmers-murder-conviction/103206070
#Moree #LandClearing #crime #wildlife #habitat #Brigalow #EnvironmentOfficer #GlenTurner #biodiversity #Koalas