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Australia news live: Victorian pharmacies to provide the pill without script; fire ants detected in Queensland rainforest Follow the latest updates live

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A red imported fire ant nest was on 3 March found by a member of public in Lamington national park in the Gold Coast hinterland, a section of ancient rainforest that is internationally recognised for its extraordinary biodiversity

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Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

Celebrate the positive when it comes along:
Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papu
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Voices of the night: Ecoacoustics and the future of the Powerful Owl HYBRID workshop, Come learn about citizen science, ecoacoustic collaborations, and how you can help these magnificent birds.

21st March, ARDC with @birdlifeoz.bsky.social & Open Ecoacoustics is running a workshop in Brisbane for researchers, citizen scientists & conservationists on the Powerful Owl Project. @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social & I will be talking on The Art of Owl Detecting!
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Qld coalmine expansion approved by Albanese government will clear habitat and fuel climate crisis, scientists say Conservationists estimate coal exported from expanded mine to release CO2 equivalent of about half Australia’s annual carbon footprint

🧪 I couldn’t summarise this any better than the excellent comment by @euanritchie.bsky.social
“ We can’t keep destroying the homes of threatened native wildlife and say we’re saving them by using ever more absurd and nonsensical mitigation approaches”
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Assistant Project Scientist University of California, Merced is hiring. Apply now!

Please help us spread the word about this great opportunity for a scholar with a strong publication, and funding record related to climate and environmental research; and excellent written communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills. aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF02050

The Guardian view on risks from biodiversity collapse: warnings must be heeded before it’s too late | Editorial Editorial: Inadequate food supplies and collapsing rainforests must be recognised as national security threats – not pigeonholed as green issues

Discontinuity is here. Climate and ecological disruptions are having unprecedented impacts in the lives of every person on Earth.

And, yes, that has profound security implications.

"Nature is a foundation of national security" is exactly right.

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Periodic reminder that without biodiversity, we’re all doomed.

Let’s not brush it aside and focus solely on carbon (obviously critical).

Focusing on carbon while sidelining biodiversity is a catastrophic mistake.

Biodiversity isn’t optional. It’s fundamental to our very existence.

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Hi Diego- so it looks like you’re the one who crashed against the ceiling. Apparently starter packs can only have 120 people. I’ll consider whether to start a second one or to convert it to a list. Just need to do some research on how to do that

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Welcome! Let me know if you’d like to profile any of your work or papers on here

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Are you a scientist that uses cameras, acoustics or drones to monitor wildlife? Are you using satellite imagery to assess forests? Join the Biodiversity Monitoring starter pack and let the world know! Reply below and point me to your research to be added. ECRs and PhDs welcome😊

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Job market folks: apply for a post-doc at the University of Lisbon! It's a 2-stage process; if interested contact my colleague David Yates (at david.yates@edu.ulisboa.pt), with a brief description of your intended research and current CV by January 7. #philsky

The water dragons come into my garden and eat the tomatoes! Lucky they’re cute

Thanks. They’re such a wonderful group, doing great things for biodiversity

The Quantitive Applied Ecology group receiving a Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence at QUT

Super proud of my team- we received a VCs Award for Excellence for Research and Innovation Excellence. Such a smart and dedicated bunch of researchers: Phoebe Worth, Lucy McCormack, Kalathma de Silva

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What a gift! We get plenty of negative feedback as educators. This is a wonderful comment. You must be great at your job! 😊

Biodiversity offsets failed to protect habitat in NSW. Now federal Labor is about to make the same mistakes, critics warn Offsets were meant to be a last resort for mitigating environmental damage from development projects, but rapidly became the default

Offsets are such a bloody stupid idea. The idea of equivalence is false. Pretending to conserve species and habitat while simply carrying out business as usual. Anyone who works in the conservation space knows this 🧪

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