🌱 #DidYouKnow most eucalypts can thrive in pots? Choose the right species, use free-draining native mix, give them sun + shelter, and don’t overwater. Airpots help avoid root issues, and pruning keeps them in shape. More tips + inspo on our Instagram and Facebook 👇
#LoveAGum #pottedeucs #ozplants
Remember The Wild is proud to release Bay Country: Diary of a Descendant, a short film following Bunurong man Dan Turnbull as he reflects on culture, Country, and connection on the Mornington Peninsula.
Watch now: rememberthewild.org.au/bay-country-...
#NRW2025 #BridgingNowToNext
Coming Friday: Bay Country
A new series featuring Bunurong man and gifted storyteller Dan Turnbull.
If we can learn a little more about each other, understand and respect each other's differences, the future can be bright and healing.
#NRW2025 #BridgingNowToNext
I am SO excited about our theme for #NationalEucalyptDay 2026! Put 23rd March in your calendars now and get planning! Get in touch if you're keen to get involved! #LoveAGum
Flat rate bulk-billing ignores the longer appointment times required for quality care and complex cases. We should be rewarding quality GPs who spend the time needed with their patients, not incentivise them to rush patients through. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
For the 96% of Australians who want stronger protections on nature (according to @biodivcouncil.bsky.social research) the choice is clear: Labor and the Coalition do not care and do not deserve your vote. biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/20...
Why isn't nature an issue this federal election? Simple really - because both major parties are totally captured by and beholden to polluting industries, notably fossil gas and farmed salmon. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
🌿 Is your garden gum tree struggling after insect or fungal damage?
Many healthy eucalypts recover just fine from minor grazing or infections — and leaving these organisms can support natural biodiversity. But sometimes, trees need a little help. 🧵
www.abc.net.au/gardening/ho...
I'm looking forward to joining the Eucalypt Australia team at the Cranbourne Gardens to see what's flowering there !
National Eucalypt Day is tomorrow!
How do you plan to celebrate?
#NationalEucalyptDay2025 #IconicLandscapes #LoveAGum
Voting closes tomorrow, tree lovers!!
Hard to pick a highlight when so many of my happiest memories are tangled amongst gums! I can't go past a white Ghost Gum on a craggy, red escarpment against the blue sky for aesthetic bliss. But my happiest camping memories have always been in the company of mallees.
Just ONE week until #NationalEucalyptDay2025!
This year we're celebrating iconic eucalypt landscapes and destinations around Australia. Let's kick off the week by sharing our favourite memories of holidays surrounded by gumtrees!
I’ve had a sneak peek at this book and it’s a celebration of all things LBJ*. Accessible, detailed and chock full of up-to-date info. Do yourself a solid and grab a copy to learn all about these majestic little beasties.
*little brown jobs
As if they didn't have enough to worry about, new research shows that, on top of the bird and lizard victims, Australia's threatened marsupials are also dying from anticoagulant rodenticides!!
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Great work by @judydunlop.bsky.social @pezoporus.bsky.social
theconversation.com/lethal-secon...
The Ghost Gums of Central Aus have my vote, and my heart. Impossible to go past their beauty and tenacity! #EucalyptoftheYear2025 #NationalEucalyptDay2025
Dying 6-year old E. rodwayi (swamp peppermint) trees.
Dying 4-year old Eucalyptus crenulata (Victorian silver gum) trees.
Dying 4-year old Eucalyptus delegatensis (alpine ash) saplings.
Dying 27-year old Eucalyptus camaldulensis subsp. camaldulensis (river red gum) trees.
Die-off of many eucalypt species at Currency Creek Arboretum. Driest 12 months on record, 5.5 mm of rain so far in 2025, and now 42 degrees today.
A few examples, mostly of species naturally originating from cooler climates (names in alt text):
Red-rumped parrot having a sneak peak at a superb parrot nest - good hollows are rare so everyone likes to keep an eye on the real estate market
Unsure how you’ll vote in the coming Federal election?
Sick of the all the misinformation in so much of the media right now?
Want to know the history of how your MP actually votes on all the issues that matter to you?
Forget what they say, THIS is what they do…
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Host an event to celebrate #NationalEucalyptDay2025 on 23rd March. Event submissions are open now, and there are a limited number of $500 microgrants to help bring your ideas to life! Microgrants applications close 12th Feb!
eucalyptaustralia.org.au/host-an-event/
#LoveAGum #IconicDestinations
A canopy-level photo of bright green-leaved gumtrees leading into the distance, with tree-covered mountains in the background and a bright blue sky with puffy white clouds. A blue river bisects the centre of the image, leading into the distance. The branches and leaves of a partially-burned, very tall eucalypt in the foreground. Photo from the Tahune forest in Tasmania.
Pack your bags & come with us on an adventure around Australia, winding our way through landscapes framed by the iconic gum tree.
Put the 23rd of March in your diary - on #NationalEucalyptDay2025, we're celebrating Australia's #IconicDestinations!
eucalyptaustralia.org.au/promotion-ma...
#LoveAGum
Silence still from the Australian government. In the meantime, independent scientists are beginning to publish their peer-reviewed data.
For example, One Tree Reef had catastrophic mortality (95%) of branching and tabular staghorn corals in 2024.
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
40 million dead mangrove trees in remote northern Australia, releasing massive amounts of stored “blue” carbon.
How can climate-sensitive ecosystems be a “nature-based solution” to rising temperatures, longer droughts, and more intense weather events?
More: smartwatermagazine.com/blogs/norman...
🦜The Mulga Parrot is our #BirdOfTheWeek!
This vibrant parrot is often mistaken for the Red-rumped Parrot, but the male stands out with its red belly and yellowish forehead stripe.
Found in semi-arid and arid zones across Aus🦜
📸Greg Norman, Bill Harding & John Barkla
Close-up of (Eastern) Yellow Robin, a smallish, very friendly bird of SE Aust perched on a Wisteria branch outside our kitchen window. Concerned about its apparent sudden disappearance from our area
Anyone in SE Aust noticed anything about the pop'n status of (Eastern) Yellow Robin. Plentiful around here for the > decade, then vamoosh, nada in 2024. No notable change in other spp. #itsamystery #wildoz #ozbirds
Nature destroyers are above the law, while nature protectors are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
It is very telling who gets a free pass.
#auspol #climate
Ever wonder why shiny beetles aren’t immediately a predator’s lunch? 🪲🕷️ This study suggests shininess jumbles predators’ visual tracking!
On moving shiny targets, predator jumping spiders’ attacks were twice as variable and struck a zone two target-widths wider, compared to non-shiny targets 😎
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Thank you!!
Thank you @franzanth.bsky.social! Great block list for accounts with stolen photography, AI and abused animal ‘cute’ pictures; provoking bullshit and made-up, misleading folderol.
