Bushcare at Wolli Creek: Met a turtle (aussie.zone)
Encountered this fellow during bushcare today. He was sitting right on top of the bridal veil roots we were pulling, looking suspiciously like a rock....
Cut lump of camphor laurel trunk sprouting (zoom in to centre) (aussie.zone)
Spotted at my local bushcare group last week. This trunk section has been sitting on the ground for months. The main tree (background) was hacked apart, drilled and poisoned by NSW Forestry, but it’s also happily sprouting everywhere again....
Deciding on a koala community that will be interlinked with Aussie Enviro (lemmy.world)
I have been giving my previous post a lot of thought and I have decided on and currently planning on creating a koala community on here which I would like to look into having interlinked here somehow, as I’m sure there are some on here who are looking forward to seeing koalas showing up in their Lemmy Feed. In the meantime, I...
Funding boost to protect turtles in the Great Barrier Reef (www.dcceew.gov.au)
The Australian and Queensland governments have announced a further $2.8 million to protect threatened turtle species in the Great Barrier Reef through the Nest to Ocean Turtle Protection Program....
Koala lover here still looking for any discussions on conserving koala habitat (lemmy.world)
Greetings, I have discovered this Australian community while I was looking for any discussions on what is going on in regards to conserving koala habitat in the Land Down Under. I haven’t decided yet on whether or not I should go ahead and create my own koala community on here as I recently have came here from Reddit....
Seeds of Fitzroy's Aboriginal icon implanted into Brisbane Lions' spirit (about a Ficus tree) (nit.com.au)
In a respectful acknowledgement that traces down its Aboriginal roots back 150 years, Brisbane has cultivated an overlooked piece of Fitzroy folklore to prosper growth that by chance is as much a feature of Queensland than the Lions roar heard at the Gabba....
Mt Beerwah reopens after 'Jesus Saves' vandal attack on Indigenous site (nit.com.au)
A sacred Indigenous site on a Queensland mountain has reopened following an incident of vandalism where an important rock surface was marked with a religious message....
A subtropical riparian community with emergent Bunya (i.postimg.cc)
Even though cows are running through it, it still looks decent from afar.
Book suggestion: "Soil: The Incredible Story of What Keeps the Earth, and Us, Healthy by Matthew Evans" (aussie.zone)
I have just finished this book and it was very infomative, and very well written to be both accessible and informative to a general audience....
Methane ‘Super-Emitters' Mapped by NASA's New Earth Space Mission (aussie.zone)
Some quick info I took from one websearch on methane mapping. Image Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech...
Whale Superhighways (aussie.zone)
Australia is barely on the map. It counts....
The tallest tree in NSW (aussie.zone)
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/232907...
10 Big Findings from the 2023 IPCC Report on Climate Change (mander.xyz)
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/949680...
Fallen *Ficus obliqua* across creek in QLD (i.postimg.cc)
https://postimg.cc/HcGCPdXH...
Flooding over a new riparian planting and the recovery after (i.postimg.cc)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/657440...
Ringbarking a large Eucalypt (aussie.zone)
“Most of the giant trees of Gippsland were ringbarked and the land was burnt, several times to deal with regrowth, to clear the land for farming, one of the Strezlecki “Big Scrub” fires raining ashes on New Zealand. The timber was never used as it was too far from any markets and the enormous grey skeletons were a feature...
