National Park privatisation by stealth?
Luxury lodges and raised boardwalks developments?

"The primary purpose of national parks is to conserve nature and cultural heritage. A secondary purpose is for people to engage with and enjoy nature...Tourism development in protected areas, however, needs a social license and local community engagement is an important sustainability principle...National parks belong to everyone and their management must reflect this. While tourism developments can offer benefits, they must not come at the cost of accessibility, affordability, or most importantly, environmental integrity."
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https://theconversation.com/luxury-hiking-developments-look-picture-perfect-but-could-stop-everyday-australians-from-accessing-national-parks-250626
#biodiversity #conservation #Wildlife #recreation #tourism #NationalParks #ResourceFrontiers

Finger wagging asymmetrical co-presence

"The inherited pro-extinction settings remain – bugger the country."

"If the majority of the community – by definition, the political centre – is resolutely against the destruction of the natural world, why is our political and regulatory system stuck on the “kill” setting?"

" We have the ignominious distinction of having among the highest rates of deforestation and species extinction in the world. Even the koala is listed as endangered in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory."
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https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/topic/environment/2025/02/22/wa-must-not-dictate-nature-policy#mtr
#extinction #lobby #extractivism #ResourceFrontiers #WA #ecocide #Biodiversity #koalas #ecosystems #collapse #FossilFuels #NatureNegative #destruction

Exposing the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia

“This was a horrendous research experience, but it did expose the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2019/mar/04/massacre-map-australia-the-killing-times-frontier-wars

Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
Data from the Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project led by Prof Lyndall Ryan at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the 21st Century Humanities.
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https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/
#TruthTelling #SettlerSociety #violence #colonialism #ConspiracyOfSilence #frontier #ResourceFrontiers #ContemporaneityOfTheNonContemporaneous #IndigenousPeoples #Australia

Documentation of the systematic destruction of Tuckers Nob forests

"Presentation for Friends of Tuckers Nob on the history and significance of Tuckers Nob State Forest and why it must be included in the NSW Government's proposed 'Great' Koala National Park. Based on a recent preliminary report submitted to government, showing the original forest and koala sightings, with a list of moratorium areas (including Tuckers). All the most recent developments, bringing the viewer up to date. This is why we need a #GreaterKoalaPark, with no logging."

The video has a link to the report containing the results (maps) of the investigations by Dr Tim Cadman and local community-based citizen scientists:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKZvVjG_XvM
#ResourceFrontiers #extractivism #biodiversity #ecocide #koalas #NativeForests #rainforest #BellingenLogging #clearfelling #NSWLogging #Bellingen #community #trauma #harm #moratorium #FCNSW #plantation #conversion #annexation #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #bushfire #risk

Calls for end to logging in NSW state forests assessed for the Great Koala National Park

Koala habitat: After the "logging and everything's smashed. It's just completely obliterated"
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-24/nsw-logging-state-forest-great-koala-national-park/104821426
#NSWLogging #FCNSW #NSW #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #biodiversity #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #rapid #deforestation #destruction #ResourceFrontiers #bushfires #risks #StopNativeForestLogging #plantation #RemnantVegetation

Forestry Corporation NSW logs 1.44 hectares within Bindarri National Park

"Bindarri National Park is home to birds, wallabies, possums, quolls, koalas, platypus, owls and bats. It lies next to Orara West State Forest, which Forestry Corporation manages and it claims the error was made because a timber plantation that sits on the border was rezoned and split between the two parks in 1999."

A "penalty will likely further hit the beleaguered state-owned company’s bottom line – on Friday, it revealed its native forestry business has lost $29 million over a single year. It said a key reason for its woes was legal action and protests against its operations. Although Victoria and Western Australia have shut down their state-owned logging companies, the Minns government has backed Forestry Corporation, which controversially logs endangered koala and greater glider habitat."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/calls-to-shut-down-controversial-business-after-illegal-act-in-national-park-061722075.html
https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/bindarri-national-park/map
#NSWLogging #crime #FCNSW #breaches #NSW #CoffsHarbour #ResourceFrontiers #NationalParks #Bindarri #koalas #biodiversity #climate #governance

Electric vehicles, rare earth mining and consent

"The increasing global demand for rare earth elements (REE) is driven by clean energy technologies. The electric vehicle in particular, is a strong driving force. The un-ceded sovereign lands of hundreds of First Nations – now colonised and called Australia – hold at least four per cent of the world’s rare earth element reserves."

"There are no strategies in Australia’s critical minerals landscape to support First Nations negotiations. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) requires that free, prior and informed consent is a minimum standard to be applied in all negotiations, including those with First Nations regarding rare earths exploitation."

"Rare earth mining will devastate and change the land forever."
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https://johnmenadue.com/rare-earths-a-conundrum-for-our-responsibility-to-care-for-country-and-kin/
#EV #cars #ElectricVehicles #GlobalSupplyChains #energy #mining #water #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #rights #consent #REE #extractivism #ResourceFrontiers

Deal to protect Australia's native forests blocked amid 'bullying' claims

"Australia has the highest rate of mammalian extinction in the world, it is the only developed nation declared a deforestation hotspot and there are more than 2,200 species listed by the Commonwealth as threatened with extinction. A new deal would have protected what remains of the nation's forests." >>
https://au.news.yahoo.com/deal-to-protect-australias-native-forests-blocked-amid-bullying-claims-031816212.html

Anthony Albanese kills last-ditch environmental protection laws with crossbench
"The prime minister has been bullied by the mining and logging lobby again. The Greens want to get laws that would actually provide some protection for nature, but Labor couldn't even entertain protecting forests and critical habitat in an extinction crisis.">>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/albanese-kills-environmental-protection-reforms/104651976
#NSWLogging #loggingIndustry #governance #deforestation #BiodiversityCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #biodiversity #Australia #koalas #ResourceFrontiers #ExtinctionCrisis

Australia-wide ban on native-forest logging?

"The Greens have dropped their demand for a climate trigger to be incorporated in the government’s stalled Nature Positive legislation, indicating they are now prepared to pass the bills in return for a Australia-wide ban on native-forest logging alone."

“Closing the legal loopholes that allow large-scale native forest logging and land clearing to go unassessed will have tangible impacts for the protection of critical habitat in Tasmania, NSW, and northern Australia, where deforestation is out of control."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/18/greens-drop-climate-trigger-demand-in-attempt-to-restart-nature-positive-talks-with-labor
#loggingIndustry #NSW #ClimateEmergency #BiodiversityCrisis #NaturePositive #NatureNegative #plantations #deforestation #ResourceFrontiers #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #extractivism

End the destruction of native forests by logging now

"Pressure is mounting on the NSW government to end its logging of the proposed Great Koala National Park immediately. Logging by the government-owned Forestry Corporation inside its proposed boundaries has intensified...Native state forests are public assets belonging to everyone in our state..."
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https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/this-activity-is-a-real-threat-mps-piling-on-pressure-over-state-s-koala-park-promise-20241113-p5kqad.html ($ wall)
#LoggingImpacts #loggingIndustry #NSW #NSWLogging #BiodiversityCrisis #FCNSW #MidNorthCoast #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #governance #ResourceFrontiers #SacrificeZone

The government promised a koala national park. Then their loggers moved in

"Logging inside the Great Koala National Park assessment area is four times more intense when measured by area than in nearby state forests outside the park, and environmentalists say the targeted areas are wreaking maximal environmental damage...New analysis suggests the NSW government’s own logging arm is trashing the forest inside the proposed park." >>

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/the-government-promised-a-koala-national-park-then-the-loggers-moved-in-20241104-p5knro.html ($ wall)
#logging #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NSW #biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #destruction #FCNSW #breaches #SaveTuckersNob #subsidies #bushfires #risks #crime #violence #ResourceFrontiers #offsets #ClimateEmergency #governance

Nature Positive
Australia's collapsing ecosystems declared a 'critical infrastructure'

Australia has destroyed and degraded nature. The remaining collapsing ecosystems are declared a 'critical infrastructure'. This new system of governance to organise life is framed as a 'Nature Positive' policy with the help of a large consulting business.

The remaining nature is now a market not a common good and has no rights (Rights of Nature laws). The ‘more-than-human-worlds’ becomes a market of 'ecosystem services' to serve a few of the human species. Nature is now a mere 'essential infrastructure' like roads, highway, sewers, sewage etc.

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"At least 19 Australian ecosystems have been reported to show signs of collapse or near collapse."
https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/overview/environment/ecosystems

"Nature Positive Plan:
better for the environment, better for business." au gov
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/publications/nature-positive-plan

"The term “nature-positive”
has become a call to action across society and business." PwC
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/corporate-sustainability/environmental-stewardship/nature.html

##biodiversity #nature #NaturePositive #infrastructure #EcosystemServices #governance #CriticalInfrastructure #KMGBF #depletion #ResourceFrontiers #NatureNegative #Unsustainability