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Day 14 
“Nearly 2m hectares of #forests suitable for endangered koalas have been destroyed since the iconic species was declared a #ThreatenedSpecies in 2011, according to analysis for Guardian Australia.
The scale of #habitat #destruction in #Queensland and #NewSouthWales – states in which the koala is formally recognised as being at risk of #extinction – has continued despite political promises it would be protected.
Analysis by the #AustralianConservationFoundation using state and federal government #data found 1,964,200 hectares of #koala habitat were cleared between 2012 and 2021, the latest year for which there was complete data.
The total amount of destroyed forest and bush covered an area larger than greater Sydney, taking in the #BlueMountains, the #Illawarra, the southern highlands and the #Goulburn and #Shoalhaven regions.
It is more than 10 times larger than the area the #NSW government is assessing for a possible “great koala national park”. But most of the cleared area – 81% – was in Queensland.
About three-quarters of the lost forest is estimated to have been cleared for agriculture, to create #cattle pasture and #crop fields. The analysis found 13% was removed by the #forestry industry and 5% for development of infrastructure, including #mining. Just 4% was likely due to natural causes, such as bushfire and drought.”
There’s a reason the Minister for the Environment has been kept quiet.
#Auspol / #Labor / #Straya / #ClimateExtinction <https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/koala-habitat-destroyed-since-2011-analysis>
The Guardian · Revealed: nearly 2m hectares of koala habitat bulldozed since 2011 – despite political promises to protect species
#Trump admin declares emergency in #California's #federal #forests
The executive action spans the entire state
By Erin Rode, Contributing LA Outdoors EditorApril 8, 2025
"A memo from the secretary of the United States Department of #Agriculture released last week outlines the Trump administration’s plans to quickly expand logging operations in the country’s #NationalForests, which could dramatically reshape the landscape of popular recreation areas in California."
Read more:
https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/california-national-forests-logging-20263873.php
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/K6esm
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/new-dams-call-into-question-cambodias-commitment-to-redd-projects/
Mongabay Environmental News · New dams call into question Cambodia’s commitment to REDD+ projectsPURSAT, Cambodia — The Cambodian government has approved at least three new irrigation dams across the Cardamom Mountains, carving even deeper into forests currently being used for the Southern Cardamom REDD+ and Samkos REDD+ carbon credit projects. Construction is yet to begin on the new dams, which are slated to be built in Battambang, Koh Kong […]
The Trump admin wants to plunder our forests. Urge Congress to keep our forests standing. Forests are essential to thriving ecosystems and community health. Forests are worth more standing than logged. https://dogwoodalliance.org/actions/keep-our-forests-standing/
#Environment #ClimateChange #Forests #PleaseSign
Dogwood Alliance · Keep Our Forests Standing | Dogwood AllianceTrump wants to plunder our forests. Tell Congress to keep our forests standing. Forests are vital to thriving ecosystems and community health. Act now!
Conservation group cleared to take legal action against NSW Forestry Corp
By Patrick Bell
The South East Forest Rescue group alleged the Forestry Corporation of NSW did not conduct a broad area habitat search for features of habitat for three species of glider in a northern New South Wales forest.
ABC News · Conservation group cleared to take legal action against NSW Forestry Corp
when you understand that under capitalism a forest has no value until it's cut down, you begin to understand the root of our ecological crisis. #capitalism #anticapitalism #ecology #forests #ClimateCrisis @guerilla_gardening
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"Most notably, about 700 Forest Service employees terminated in mid-February’s “Valentine’s Day massacre” are red-card-carrying staffers, an agency spokesperson confirmed to ProPublica. These workers hold other full-time jobs in the agency, but they’ve been trained to aid firefighting crews, such as by providing logistical support during blazes. They also assist with prescribed burns, which reduce flammable vegetation and prevent bigger fires, but the burns can only move forward if there’s a certain number of staff available to contain them. (Non-firefighting employees without a red card cannot perform such tasks.)
Red-card-carrying employees are the “backbone” of the firefighting force, and their loss will have “a significant impact,” said Frank Beum, a board member of the National Association of Forest Service Retirees who spent more than four decades with the agency and ran the Rocky Mountain Region. “There are not enough primary firefighters to do the full job that needs to be done when we have a high fire season.”
ProPublica spoke to employees across the Forest Service — which manages an area of land nearly twice the size of California — including staff working in firefighting, facilities, timber sales and other roles, to learn how sweeping personnel changes are affecting the agency’s ability to function. The employees said cuts, which have hit the agency’s recreation, wildlife, IT and other divisions, show the Trump administration is shifting the agency’s focus away from environmental stewardship and toward industry and firefighting.
But notwithstanding Trump’s stated guardrails, the cuts have affected the Forest Service’s more than 10,000-person-strong firefighting force."
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-cuts-forest-service-firefighting
ProPublicaTrump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.
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Mongabay Environmental News · Netherlands’ largest forest biomass plant canceled, forest advocates elatedDutch forest campaigners are claiming a significant victory over one of the Netherlands’ top energy providers, Vattenfall, after the company decided in late February to cancel plans to build the nation’s largest wood pellet burning plant for energy. “This is enormous,” said Fenna Swart, leader of the Clean Air Committee, a Dutch forest advocacy group […]
Watch this video on yesterday's #AskAScientist webinar and learn from Hannes Böttcher, Senior Researcher at Oeko-Insttut, and other experts all about #carbonfarming in european #forests:
https://youtu.be/izlUdqVPG1I?feature=shared
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-forest-carbon-stocks-climate-goals.html
Phys.org · Losing forest carbon stocks could put climate goals out of reach, scientists warn
#InternationalBeaverDay: How These Creatures Alter #Rivers and Shape #Forests
The Impact of Beavers on #Biodiversity
#Beavers essentially create #ecosystems within ecosystems, promoting a rich tapestry of life. Their impact on biodiversity is profound, with studies showing that areas inhabited by beavers often have higher species diversity than those without.
#beaver
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@HarriettMB Ah grand! Gosh, that's a relief - much obliged. 
(I don't suppose anywhere on the island is looking for dozens of sycamore seedlings..? 
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“Brazil’s escalating forest fire crisis, highlighting a record 237,000 fires in 2024 that devastated over 30 million hectares of vegetation—most of it in the Amazon—and triggered a national environmental emergency…
Brazil is pursuing a range of responses”
Mongabay Environmental News · Brazil is speeding-up forest fire prevention to avoid dangerous tipping points in the Amazon (commentary)Brazil is facing an alarming surge in forest fires. Last year, the country registered 237,000 fires and over 30.8 million hectares of vegetation were consumed by flames—an area the size of Italy. This represented a 79% increase in areas burned compared to 2023. The Amazon rainforest bore the brunt, accounting for 58% of the total burned area. The threat of more fires during the 2025 fire […]
Losing forest carbon stocks could put climate goals out of reach
“Delaying action leads to disproportionately higher costs,” explains Michael Windisch, the study’s lead author and PIK guest scientist. “Right now, our climate strategies bet on forests not only remaining intact, but even expanding,” Windisch says. “However, with escalating #wildfires like in #California, and continued #deforestation in the #Amazon, that’s a gamble. #ClimateChange itself puts forests’ immense carbon stores at risk.”
According to the study, postponing action to reduce #emissions and to protect and monitor #forests could jeopardise #climate targets. “We must act immediately to safeguard the carbon stored in forests,” Windisch emphasises. “Otherwise, compensating for potential forest carbon losses through steeper emissions cuts in key emission sectors like #energy, #industry and #transport will become increasingly expensive and possibly unattainable.”
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““Right now, our climate strategies bet on forests not only remaining intact, but even expanding,” Windisch says.
“However, with escalating wildfires like in California, and continued deforestation in the Amazon, that’s a gamble. Climate change itself puts forests’ immense carbon stores at risk.””
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ResearchLosing forest carbon stocks could put climate goals out of reach27.03.2025 - In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion tonnes of CO₂ annually – about a fifth of all human emissions – but their carbon storage is increasingly at risk from climate change and human activities such as deforestation. A new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that failing to account for the potentially decreasing ability of forests to absorb CO₂ could make reaching the Paris agreement targets significantly harder, if not impossible, and much more costly.
In a remote region in Thailand's northwest, scientists are confronting the toll that human activity and climate change are already having on forests that are supposed to be pristine and protected. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/04/05/climate-change/thailand-scientists-wildfires/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #climatechange #thailand #forests #wildfires
The Japan Times · 'It's gone': conservation science in Thailand's burning forest
Ground Truth · Weekly Forest News, April 04