‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

And not just turtles..
“These deaths are incomprehensible, given there is environmental water sitting in the dam. This could save the turtles, but WaterNSW is just not allowing its release,” Prof Deb Bower said.
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Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death? | First Dog on the Moon There is a whole dam full of water right there but the turtles can’t have it

It's not just turtles..
#species
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Yes, phas indicated often by a latrine pile in one corner of nestbox. Great animals.

Mine too!

Daddy-long-legs Spider The cosmopolitan Daddy-long-legs Spider belongs to a group known as the tangle-web spiders.

An introduced sp. australian.museum/learn/animal....

Daddy-long-legs Spider The cosmopolitan Daddy-long-legs Spider belongs to a group known as the tangle-web spiders.

Likely introduced sp. australian.museum/learn/animal....

No phascogales?

Dendrobium Bendigo.. where its too hot& dry in summer & too cold in winter for them

I'm one.

Be interested to know if you have help from bettongs or bandicoots with the morning cone opening? Big bush food in pre- european times.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand)
Results:
Last week: 100.0% RE
Last 240 weeks: 98.7% RE (1/5)

Didn't work in Vietnam and still won't work for the USA. Trump & his cronies have revealed a method of defeating the USA & it's allies.

Depends where you're standing I guess, moose & bear are weird for me. There's no "up" "North" or "normal". Nature is nature.

Spotted-tailed (2 subspecies)& largest carnivorous marsupial on mainland Aust. Only the very lucky will have seen one. There'd be more but for that animal with 10 retractable claws, and us.

In the 60's we used to say 'make love not war' & ' tread lightly on the earth'. Such halcyon days! Today I'm building a pond so I can stare into the water, can't wait.

Keep your chin up Shaz, I had a stroke in 1987, also still wobbly, retired but still working on projects every day. Guess I was lucky, it wasn't April 1.

Contrast US to Australia, our Prime Minister came from a very humble working class family & never knew his father. Democracy should mean any citizen can become a leader. Australians are generally suspicious of the wealthy class, and our conservative Party(Liberals) try to look like strugglers.

Agree, but I think your voting system doesn't help at all. Billionaires simply buy their way in to power. They control all your media. Its a kind of wierd sham democracy. Trump is the inevitable result.

What is it about decision makers here? Why so slow to act on this, and this is only retail sales. My guess is big ag gets priority over ecology, every time.

New ban on dangerous rodent poisons is lifeline for our native animals Rat and mouse baits are an everyday product. But these chemicals can persist in the tissues of rodents that eat them for months and poison native animals.

I really didn't think this would finally happen in Australia. Our country has the worst record for species extinction on the planet.
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#ausbirds / #australianbirds
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Thanks for the reply. That angled method of assembly is identical to a first nations arrangement in central Vic. European stone walls are generally laid with horizontal bond. Probably best not to disclose the actual location if not European in origin.

"Settlers made use of surrounding landscapes" and maybe sometimes used stone from an earlier culture...well they definitely did where I live. Do you really believe settlers created these huge heated & cooled stone slabs to make sheep yards?

This may seem a bit crazy Sandy, but that might not have been a dry s wall, I know of stones laid similarly by past first people in Vic. Does it follow a road ?

Transferring 5 #kakapo chicks from Whenua Hou to Anchor this week means that some more two-chick nests were created. With a more reliable food supply, most chicks on Anchor are growing fast - like these in Hine Taumai’s nest. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots #birds

Cats kill our <5kg mammals & birds, this is 150 y old brick I discovered 700 mm deep under steps, 1871 house Bendigo.
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#ausinverts / #australianinvertebrates

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Autumn in Australia, this is the crown of a 5 meter high walnut I planted 3 years ago. We had a warmish summer so some leaves are crispy. Top temp 42 C (107.6 in USA speak).

Great to read that some US people are still working against the tide there. Thanks for sharing.

Crimson in wetter country, eastern in box ironbark, they meet north of the divide by my observation so some localities like Castlemaine see both in Vic.

I thought that too with eye & bill but the pink had me thrown. Aren't they usually white?