Australian oysters’ blood could hold key to fighting drug-resistant superbugs, researchers find Protein found in Sydney rock oysters’ haemolymph can kill bacteria and boost some antibiotics’ effectiveness, scientists discover

What's nature ever done for us?

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Giant 400-year-old tingle tree accidentally destroyed by authorities WA officials have defended the state's prescribed burning strategy after an enormous tingle tree was destroyed in a recent fire.

Widespread planned burning accelerates loss of large trees and locks in higher flammability for decades. There are alternatives that the Western Australian government should invest in. Check the video featuring fire expert Phil Zylstra🌏

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Cattle in top end national parks YouTube video by Don Driscoll

Feral cattle & cattle from neighbouring stations threaten Australia's top end national parks. A WA government control program already limits damage, but from what I saw in 2023, more investment is needed. Preventing station cattle from entering parks is also important.🌏

youtu.be/KXCSpItB0o4

Brumby activists racially vilified former head of Yorta Yorta corporation, VCAT finds The state's civil and administrative tribunal has found that a pro-brumby group racially vilified the former chief executive of an Aboriginal corporation through social media posts and posters.

Lobbyists who demand feral horses stay in National Parks found to have racially vilified Indigenous people. But current goverment policy is evidence based, and, with support of the Yorta Yorta, feral horses will be removed, protecting native species and ecosystems.🌏

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

The #ESAus2024 (Ecological Society of Australia conference) starter pack is live! Let me know if you're attending in December and I'll add you in.

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yes please! #ESAus2024 is going to be the biggest ever ESA!

Thanks to Tony Mitchell and his wallaby, Nature has actual nature on the cover, highlighting our paper that shows the impact of megafires on biodiversity is moderated mostly by the number of past fires. 🌏

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Albanese kills off deal with Greens to pass ‘nature positive’ legislation after intervention by WA premier Roger Cook says he spoke to ‘highest level’ of federal government to reiterate his view the environment bills in their current form ‘should not be progressed’

Australia's Government has scuttled nature positive legislation because one State Labor premiere is kowtowing to the mining industry.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Ecological Society of Australia is here. Such a relief to have a platform for scientists to communicate with each other and the world more generally.
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Scientists say 35 freshwater fish species should be added to the threatened species list The largest survey of Australia's freshwater fish suggests about one third should be listed as threatened species.

Update on conservation status of Australia's freshwater fish. It looks grim and more effort needed to limit invasive trout and habitat loss.
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‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire Frequent fuel-reduction burning appears to prime ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits.

The condition of sites affected how severe impacts of the 2019-20 fires were. Most important was the number of preceding fires, with implications for prescribed burning🌏
The conversation theconversation.com/catastrophic...
The paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The video youtu.be/kCPjowmxH3Q

‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire Frequent fuel-reduction burning appears to prime ecosystems for major disruption when the next wildfire hits.

‘Catastrophic declines’: massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire theconversation.com/catastrophic...

Based on @dadriscoll.bsky.social et al.'s paper out now in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires - Nature Data collected from more than 2,000 taxa provide an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how extreme wildfires affect biodiversity, revealing that the largest effects on plants and animals were in are...

Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires.

In this massive collaboration, >100 Australian ecologists put a novel spin on meta-analysis to discover how fire frequency, interval, unburnt area, pre-fire drought and protected areas modify fire impacts.🌏

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NSW Parliament inquiry confirms: Aerial culling key to protecting wildlife from feral horse damage The NSW Upper House has today released its report following an inquiry into the aerial shooting of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park.

NSW Government inquiry into control of feral horses confirms that aerial culling is an important tool for reducing feral horse numbers humanely. Great to see increased protection of native Australian species and ecosystems, at least in 2/3 of Kosciuszko NP.
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Widespread resilience of animal species, functional diversity, and predator–prey networks to an unprecedented gigafire Despite the unprecedented 2019–20 Australian wildfires, our landscape-scale analysis found most native terrestrial fauna exhibited widespread resilience. Using 192 wildlife cameras across 24 landscap...

New paper! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - Grant Linley et al.

Exciting news! Tomorrow our gigantic collaboration about the impacts of the 2019-20 megafires on plants and animals comes out in Nature. It has implications for prescribed burning and climate change. More tomorrow....

Threatened species have declined 2% a year since 2000. Nature positive? Far from it. When Labor took office, it promised to reverse nature’s decline. But that looks more and more like greenwashing

Effective conservation is so closely connected to the big decisions governments make. And Australia's Labor party just went with greenwashing and gross underfunding.🌏

theconversation.com/threatened-s...

Green industry yes, conservation no: a budget for people, not for nature What’s in the budget for the environment? Lots for green industry, little for conservation

Australia's government renegs on promises to protect biodiversity. It could have done so much with relatively little $$. 🌏

theconversation.com/green-indust...

Do a teaching course so you learn the teaching language. Publish great papers. Collaborate.🌏

Hi Ethan. Please add me.🌏