Developing Coffs Harbour foreshore will amount to a ‘desecration of the land’, traditional owners say
"We need to have cultural spaces preserved, and no one is listening."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/10/coffs-harbour-foreshore-development-traditional-owners
#CoffsHarbour #NSW #MidNorthCoast #coast #sprawl #JettyForeshore #Gumbaynggirr #IndigenousPeoples #consultation
while couped up in a forest of lovely Ferns, Trees, and comfortable humans, my friend from Gadigal country, @xtaffy, shared their pack of conversation/reflection cards by talented #Gumbaynggirr activist, artist & comedian #ArethaBrown.
inviting indiv/groups to participate, each card asks questions relating to #FirstNations allyship & invites deep reflection on the often colonial life experiences of each individual.
highly recc, esp w those in need of a healthy dose of radicalisation!
The No More: National Rally Against Violence Sunday 28 April
Sunday 28th April
- Naarm/Melbourne: 10am, State Library to Federation Square
- Dja Dja Wurrung/Bendigo: 11am, Rosalind Park
- Djilang/Geelong: 11am at Market Square Mall
- Gumbaynggirr/Coffs Harbour: 11am, Coffs Jetty Foreshore
- Boorloo/Perth: 12pm, Forrest Pl to Parliament House
- Gubbi Gubbi/Sunshine Coast: 11am, Foundation Square to Cotton Tree
Park
- Meeanjin/Brisbane: 11am, King George Square
- Ngunnawal/Canberra: 2pm, Commonwealth Park to Parliament
House
- Wiradjuri / Orange: 2:30pm @ Robertson Parkn
#VAW #MaleViolence #auspol #Brisbane #meeanjin #Wiradjuri #Orange #Canberra #Ngunnawal #CottonTree #SunshineCoast #Melbourne #Bendigo #Geelong #CoffsHarbour #Perth #Wiradjuri #GubbiGubbi #Boorloo #Gumbaynggirr #Djilang #DjaDjaWurrung #Naarm
Glossy black cockatoos have a highly specialised diet, feeding almost exclusively on the seeds of she-oaks. (Supplied: Alex Pike)
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#birdsofmastodon
#glossysquad
#Gumbaynggirr, #Bundjalung #Yaegl
When they came and took the forest away... there was a civil uprising.
Pt 1/2
Timber thieves operated in a small town in Mexico. Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán.
"One estimate states that about half of the area's 17,000 hectares of forest have been lost to illegal logging..."about fifty thousand acres of forest were illegally cut between 2008 and 2011," and 200–250 logging trucks a day passed through the town."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher%C3%A1n
Reclaiming the Forests and the Right to Feel Safe
"Crime, raging violence, corrupt politicians, a toothless justice system had the Indigenous community in a stranglehold. In 2011, the women of Cherán led a revolt against illegal logging and corruption. Today, the forests are coming back, and the Indigenous community is returning to its roots."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cheran-mexico
The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrPBdLiqMb0
The Cherán Indigenous Community’s Remarkable Road to Self-rule
"After turning to self-government to fight illegal logging by narco-traffickers, a small town in Mexico is celebrating 4 years of communal decision-making."
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-cheran-indigenous-communitys-remarkable-road-to-self-rule-in-mexico
Pt. 2
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/110948624647555754
#Forests #biodiversity #trees #water #Cherán #IndigenousPeoples #uprising #Logging #violence #trucks #cartels #corruption #IndigenousSelfRule #SelfDetermination #DecisionMaking #SocialMedia #protests #democracy #activism #resistance #PoliticalParticipation #fightback #NewryStateForest #NSWLogging #Gumbaynggirr
When they came and took the forest away... there was a civil uprising.
Pt.2/2
Cherán. 5 years of self-government in an indigenous community in Mexico
"Ordinary people decided to confront the criminal organizations that came down from the hill with several vans loaded with wood. That was the beginning. Its experience has inspired indigenous communities throughout Mexico, who seek respect for their rights, territory, institutions and culture."
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/cher-n-5-years-of-self-government-in-indi/
“Reclaiming the Forests and the Right to Feel Safe.” The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/world/americas/in-mexico-reclaiming-the-forests-and-the-right-to-feel-safe.html
Images: Confronting the cartel: Ritual Inhabitual depict a community’s fightback against corruption in Mexico
https://www.1854.photography/2023/07/ritual-inhabitual-ones-to-watch/
Can satellite imagery fight illegal logging in Mexico?
Between 2006 and 2012, researchers estimate that about 70 percent of Cheran’s forests were ravaged by organised criminals as locals staged protests to denounce police inaction.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/26/can-satellite-imagery-fight-illegal-logging-in-mexico
Pt. 1
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/110948628395660370
#Forests #biodiversity #trees #water #Cherán #IndigenousPeoples #uprising #Logging #violence #trucks #cartels #corruption #IndigenousSelfRule #SelfDetermination #DecisionMaking #SocialMedia #protests #democracy #activism #resistance #PoliticalParticipation #fightback #NewryStateForest #SaveTuckersNob #NSWLogging #Gumbaynggirr
Many now flock to natural places for the best selfie background
"Trampling plants, damaging rock art, risking your life: taking selfies in nature has a cost."
"Someone goes swimming, puts it on social media and suddenly there’s 100 people a day coming to go wild swimming where the platypus and the glow-worms live. And in a wet year, suddenly all the vegetation around the rock pool is trampled, it turns into a muddy mess."
https://theconversation.com/trampling-plants-damaging-rock-art-risking-your-life-taking-selfies-in-nature-has-a-cost-211901
#Gumbaynggirr #Bellingen #PromisedLand #NeverNeverRiver #tourism #OverTourism #locals #selfie #nature #wildlife #platypus #NoGeotags #travel
New research shows: "Alarmingly, climate change is making bushfires more frequent."
Logging and 'thinning' Bellingen does too.
"We excluded deliberate burns such as hazard reduction (or prescribed) burns lit by fire authorities. We also excluded places that had been logged, because they’re known to be at a high risk of severe fire – and so including them would have skewed the results."
"Clearly, we must seek to limit the number of wildfires. An obvious response is to take more strident steps to tackle climate change. But even if humanity meets this huge global challenge, it will be a long time before we see demonstrable changes in climate conditions."
"More immediate options include managing vegetation to reduce flammability. For example, activities such as logging and thinning can make forests more flammable, so such practices should be halted in these vulnerable ecosystems."
"Greater efforts are needed to conserve biodiversity that is sensitive to fire, and to conserve ecosystems at risk of collapse. We must also embrace new technologies to detect wildfires as soon as they ignite, and suppress them as quickly as possible."
Logging elevated the probability of high-severity fire in the 2019–20 Australian forest fires
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01717-y
What environmental and climatic factors influence multidecadal fire frequency?
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4610
#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #Gleniffer #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala #SaveTuckersNob #bushfires #biodiversity #conservation
Bellingen - Tuckers Nob proposed logging/ clear felling Information Meeting
To the community of Tuckers Nob State Forest and any residents concerned by proposed Industrial Logging of Compartments 26/27 you are invited to a meeting by Friends of Tuckers Nob at
Gleniffer Hall
Thursday 17 of August at 6 pm
#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #catchment #RosesRd #GlenifferRd #trucks #traffic #noise #dust #Gleniffer #meeting #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #woodchips #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala
BellingenNSW
dylan drakos
Peter Riley
Ferdi Magellan
