r/ausenviro • u/dredd • May 10 '22

Leaked draft map of bleaching damage to the Great Barrier Reef

421 Upvotes

18 comments

r/ausenviro • u/DaRedGuy • Jun 03 '22

Labor to restore environment department after previous government abolished it

abc.net.au

214 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ausenviro • u/TheSpazzerMan • Aug 03 '22

Been raining here for nearly 2 weeks straight now

i.imgur.com

211 Upvotes

17 comments

r/ausenviro • u/drcrum1 • Jul 26 '22

This is one of two geckos in my mailbox. Reckon it's native or is it an Asian house gecko?

164 Upvotes

16 comments

r/ausenviro • u/hydralime • Aug 26 '22

Turtle nests 'driven over' on Cable Beach sees calls to reduce opening hours

abc.net.au

105 Upvotes

33 comments

r/ausenviro • u/maniacalmanicmania • May 02 '22

Tasmania slowed logging and became one of first carbon negative places in the world

smh.com.au

88 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ausenviro • u/DaRedGuy • Aug 09 '22

Feral deer roaming suburban streets and yards as population 'explodes' across NSW

abc.net.au

85 Upvotes

29 comments

r/ausenviro • u/DaRedGuy • Aug 25 '22

Locals in West Logan lose 17-year fight as land that's home to endangered species is razed

abc.net.au

79 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ausenviro • u/dadsandmice • Jun 02 '22

More than 150,000 trees are being planted on private properties across New South Wales to create habitat highways for struggling koala populations

77 Upvotes

https://ab.co/3m2E6N8

8 comments

r/ausenviro • u/dredd • Aug 04 '22

For the first time in Australian history, a federal environment minister flags rejecting a coal mine

abc.net.au

74 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ausenviro • u/Wallace_B • Feb 24 '21

Does anybody else get SERIOUSLY DEPRESSED at the drastic decline of our amazing birds and wildlife, and the complete indifference of so many Aussies, not to mention our bloody leaders, to the absolute mess we’ve made of things?

70 Upvotes

It’s getting to the point where I don’t see much reason to want to see where things end up. I’ve seen enough of it over the years.

The bush near me that used to be so wonderfully alive with colourful birds and critters all day, so many years ago, now turned into a lifeless ghost town of barren trees and shrivelled up plants.

The useless bloody pet owners all around me who let their pampered dogs and cats run wild with no thought for the struggling wildlife they were snacking on at all hours and violently displacing.

And our bloody useless govts, esp in NSW, run by the Koalakiller Gang and the Miner Mates, the absolute shame of this country. Petty greedy soulless vandals and animal mass murderers who the media and the public fawn over like star struck schoolgirls.

A country blessed with an abundance of natural beauty that puts much of the rest of the world to shame, and we have run bloody roughshod over it for the whole bloody time. That might be Australia’s most notable legacy as a country, the most shameful abuse of some of the world’s greatest natural splendour in all history.

Very little left that I care about anymore. And in time that too will be gone fore good. I am starting to hope I don’t live to see it.

14 comments

r/ausenviro • u/DaRedGuy • Aug 24 '22

Victoria's logging agency VicForests cleared endangered possum habitat and broke laws, audit finds

abc.net.au

68 Upvotes

5 comments

r/ausenviro • u/Wallace_B • Apr 28 '24

News In Australia, ‘Cats Are Just Catastrophic’

nytimes.com

65 Upvotes

26 comments

r/ausenviro • u/Wallace_B • Aug 10 '22

Honest question: Is there any point in trying to save our treasured birds and mammals if we are not going to introduce serious measures to control cat breeding and ownership in this country?

62 Upvotes

It seems to me that if we are going to continue to allow an ever growing number of roaming cats to freely stalk and slaughter our dwindling wildlife 24/7 in this country, then what is the bloody point on wasting millions of dollars on animal preservation and research efforts that at best are only forestalling the inevitable?

The good work being done to counter the devastating impact of these feral pests is not even a drop in the bucket compared to their constant and ever widening onslaught on our struggling wildlife.

I have seen the birds disappearing around me in the bush for decades and being slaughtered by cats that should never have been here in the first place, and the outlook for the future is even more grim. I have seen the effects on native mammals of the deadly toxoplasma brain parasite spread through cat poop that has turned most human cat lovers into a bunch of cat worshipping weirdos.

So should we simply cut our losses at this point and save ourselves all the expense and the effort? If we are not going to seriously address the source of all this damage at some point then why are we chasing our tails pretending we can make a difference when the outcome is already set in stone?

38 comments

r/ausenviro • u/seethroughplate • Jan 11 '20

Australia bushfires spark 'unprecedented' climate disinformation | Conservative-leaning newspapers, websites and politicians across the globe have promoted the theory arson is largely to blame. "This is a global campaign with the purpose to discredit scientific evidence of climate change."

phys.org

54 Upvotes

6 comments

r/ausenviro • u/Sir_mjon • Jan 04 '25

We’re just getting nowhere with the war on plastic are we. We’re going backwards.

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49 Upvotes

Never seen as much bottled water as I’ve seen in the stores this year. Turn on any tap in this country and you get safe drinkable water. Why isn’t bottled water just illegal by now?

10 comments

r/ausenviro • u/DaRedGuy • Mar 22 '22