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The road that will eat the grassland earless dragon's habitat

"The fight for the lizard has recently been drawn into the public's focus as environmentalists express concerns the construction of a new road at Canberra Airport cuts straight through the dragon's habitat."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-05-08/can
#biodiversity #reptiles #EndangeredSpecies #extinction #roads #MobilityDesign

ABC News · The grassland earless dragon is fighting for survival amid construction of a new airport road in CanberraBy Monte Bovill

[PODCAST] A biotech company in the United States made headlines last month by revealing photos of genetically modified gray wolves, calling them “dire wolves,” a species that hasn’t existed for more than 10,000 years.

Some observers assert to the public that “de-extinction” is real. But it’s not, says podcast guest Dieter Hochuli, a professor at the Integrative Ecology Lab at the University of Sydney.

news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025

Mongabay Environmental News · ‘De-extinction’ isn’t just misleading — it’s dangerous, ecologist saysA biotech company in the United States made headlines last month by revealing photos of genetically modified gray wolves, calling them “dire wolves,” a species that hasn’t existed for more than 10,000 years. Colossal Biosciences edited 14 genes among billions of base pairs in gray wolf DNA to arrive at the pups that were shown, […]

PSA: The #Crisafulli #LNP government of #Queensland wants to expand native forest logging as part of it's anti #conservation pro #logging "Primary Industries Prosper 2050" blueprint.

*Not* protect or continue native logging. No. The plan is to *EXPAND* it.

It's been carefully shuffled out of sight, being slid out under cover of all the noise from the federal parties during the election.

There is a consultation period now open. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE submit your thoughts on this proposal, and encourage others to do so. Our survival depends on our native forests. Without them there is no future for our land, and by extension no future for us - just eroding soils, dead rivers, dessicated land and mass extinction.

Defend life. Defend the land we belong to. Defend the forests that sustain us.

dpi.engagementhub.com.au/prima

Even the worst #massextinction had its oases
Scientists have debated whether this event caused nearly as much terrestrial destruction. Now, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (NIGPAS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences suggest that #terrestrial #ecosystems did not suffer nearly as much as the #oceans.
Plants thrived in present-day #China throughout the End-#Permian #extinction.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

Image of two large reptiles in a swampy environment with lots of trees. The animals and trees are nothing like today's suggesting a scene from the distant past.
Ars Technica · Even the worst mass extinction had its oasesBy Elizabeth Rayne

#SouthernRightWhale #population growth has stalled, scientists say, with a possible 'onset of a decline'.

Australia's southern right whale population growth has #stalled, raising questions about the recovery of a species that was nearly driven to #extinction by historical #whaling, according to a new study.

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-01/ima

ABC News · Something is happening with the southern right whale population, scientists sayBy Ellen Coulter

ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0380 Ford is trying to repeal the endangered species act. The bill is called the "Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act," which is awful on multiple levels. The commenting period on the Environmental Registry ends May 17. Please write something to stop this. He's determined to do his part for extinction events while paving over the Green Belt. #GreenBelt #DougFord #Environment #Ontario #EndangeredSpecies #ecology #extinction

"The Middle Arm project
is a proposed Northern Territory government development involving the construction of wharves and jetties to be used by industries including liquified natural gas, carbon capture and storage and critical minerals."
"If the project goes ahead, the Middle Arm peninsula is expected to also lose: 70% of its old growth woodlands, which provide habitat for threatened fauna; 28% of its rainforest; 61% of its seasonal wetlands; and 12.46% of saltpan roosting habitat for the critically endangered far eastern curlew, according to the draft assessment."
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theguardian.com/environment/20
#Fossilfuels #extinction #Darwin #NT #biodiversity #destruction #ClimateBreakdown

The Guardian · Leaked document shows two threatened species could be wiped out at Middle Arm development siteBy Lisa Cox

'“With one year you cannot say that all the future will be lost,” Ciais cautioned.

But he’s worried the Earth might be on track to warm more rapidly than some scientists — and world leaders — expect. Many climate models don’t account for an increasingly rapid breakdown of Earth’s natural ecosystems, accelerated by wildfires, droughts, pests and other climate-related disasters.'

Fun stuff.

eenews.net/articles/trumps-noa

E&E News by POLITICO · Trump’s NOAA downplayed a huge finding: CO2 surged last yearEarth might be on track to warm more rapidly than expected, some scientists warn.

#News: While 1000's of extant wild #animals face #extinction, millions are being spent reviving dire wolves in labs. End the major causes of animal extinction now: hunting, illegal wildlife trade, climate change and deforestation.
#Boycott4Wildlife theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Drones, AI and one long fence: Kangaroo Island’s war on a clawed predator that kills 1.5bn Australian animals a year theguardian.com/environment/20

#extinction #Cats #Wildlife

"Nationally, feral cats kill more than 1.5bn native mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs and 1.1bn invertebrates a year. They have contributed to the extinction of more than 20 Australian mammals and can spread diseases to native animals, livestock and humans."

The Guardian · Drones, AI and one long fence: Kangaroo Island’s war on a clawed predator that kills 1.5bn Australian animals a yearBy Tory Shepherd