Lowlandsbeach

Thanks for this. My favourite kind of content, I'll give them all a follow

A town in the Swiss Alps stood for 800 years. In an instant it was wiped out The Swiss Alps are a natural wonder and a key part of the national identity, but life in the mountains is under threat from climate change.

“If Switzerland can’t [afford it], who in the world can?” “You can’t just say we’ll leave the valleys " www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Yes, feral cats and foxes really have driven many Australian mammals to extinction Decades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators aren’t responsible don’t stack up.

theconversation.com/yes-feral-ca... the essay in @aeon.co is incorrect . Decades of evidence link cats and foxes with extinction of Australianammals

Investigating the Causes of an Extinction Catastrophe: Controlling Introduced Predators Remains Essential for Conserving Australia’s Mammals Abstract. At least 40 Australian mammal spcies have been driven to extinction since European colonization in 1788. For conservation management to be effect

academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... Carlos Santana essay in @Aeon ignores recent publications which confirm that cats and foxes cause extinctions in Australia

Possibly bauxite could be mined in degraded farmland and then reveg www.watoday.com.au/environment/...

aacom.apps.alcoa.com/australia/en... the Alcoa mining produces Gallium to support US war technology. No mention of Alcoa having a "shift to renewable energy"

Perth council rejects Alcoa bauxite drilling over water, forest concerns US aluminium giant Alcoa's proposed expansions to its mining operations near Perth could lead to the release of three years' worth of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions — in Australia and downstream...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08.... 2/3rds of bauxite is exported, expansion by Alcoa will harm water supply as well as forest

Outrageous. Alcoa has just been granted a Federal exemption to allow it to continue to mine Jarrah forest. It already has a State exemption.The exemptions allow Alcoa to ignore environmental approval processes. Most clearing has occurred since 2010. Rehab has failed is excessively behind schedule

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Heard another new ecology word today first used in the 1920s "forb" meaning a flowering, leafy non-woody plant but not a grass, sedge, reed to distinguish from grasses found in grasslands. Can be monocot or dicot , orchid, goodenia, daisy, fringe lilies, chorizema peas, or one of thousands

Happy Valentine's Day, yesterdays Friday the 13th, tomorrows Chinese New Year s eve Shrove pancake Tuesday soon. Potting olast year's Xmas tree woolly bush Adenanthos next to Buddha. Syncing the years festivals. Looking forward to changing the date of Australia day to sync with Easter and Anzac

At a very boring community meeting. I'm on the side of the lizards and the gum trees. Distracting myself with this morning s photos from rare trip north of the river

It's Trains! Gotta love out Perth trains, so clean, so uncrowded, so affordable. $2.80 to the airport www.instagram.com/reel/DUQ5xB8...

"Predator" in the zoological sense wasn't used until 1922. Compare the usage graph of "spectator" w "predator". And "predated" meaning preyed on first use is 1974. Growth of ecology studies, but still confusion with predate, as in dinosaurs predate humans

Travels on the 532. Swamp hen in a tree at Manning Lake. Turtle nests preyed upon 😢. Crested pigeon

Travels on the 532. Swamp hen in a tree at Manning Lake. Turtle nests preyed upon 😢. Crested pigeon

Too hot

Renegotiation to include self government requires the consent of parties to the original settlement? I don't know if sovereignty means this in this context. Native title rights to land were surrendered by the settlement. Beautiful music just now, 2nd act musicians on stage

Wonderful free music at Freo arts centre just now. The singer in the band just said "sovereignty was never ceded". The settlement commenced in 2021, the 2016 Act recognised Traditional Owners, and the Native Title claim was surrendered by the Settlement (like a treaty)

Mushrooms can be used as processors and memory chips for computers. More energy efficient than silicon
"In this study, we explored shiitake...* scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

More travels on the 532. This time to Bathers Beach. Beware of submerged objects. Seems the seahorse marine littering project is now over as litter container padlocked

The South West Native Title Settlement (Australia's 1st treaty, does the settlement mean that sovereignty was ceded in 2021?) extinguished Native Title, but Nannup Shire website doesn't reflect this: instead of acknowledging Traditional Owners, they acknowledge Native Title Holders. Confused?

Travels on the 532. Lots of deposits of rocks and shells at North end of south beach. Lots of little corellas up in the trees and yogis under the trees. Sometimes there are yellow crested cockatoos (not doing yoga tho) . Unloved by Ag dept.

Volunteering helping watering the Clontarf hill reveg. We have 3 kinds of gum tree in the reveg: tuarts, E. decipiens and E. foecunda.

At Dryandra woodland?

beautiful, any other suggestions for aphid control? not many ladybugs at my patch

Grasshopper today while weeding the remnant urban bushland

Question of balance? Removing fumitory in urban fragment reveg bushland (weed paradise) to save reveg native seedlings, or preserve weedy understorey as bobtail habitat? Mosaic a bit of both perhaps?

Yes, campaign to require fossil fuel companies to contribute so much more to STEM education, and contribute so much more to Environmental protection, that it becomes no longer viable for fossil fuel companies to engage in activities damaging to the environment