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#GunaiKurnaiCountry: Forest Friends Thousands of Grey-headed Flying-foxes take to the skies, travelling across foothills and coastal forests in search of nectar and pollen. In abundant flowering seasons-known as pollination years-these remarkable animals help keep forests healthy

#GunaiKurnaiCountry: There are a lot of flying foxes in Bairnsdale right now and we think its because there’s lots of ironbark (E.tricarpa) and redbox (E.polyanthemos) flowering in foothills and coastal forests, in such abundance like we haven't seen for some years

“It means that disturbances to their habitat or habitat loss might be more severe than we thought,” Wagner said. In fragmented or less dense forests, there would be more gaps to cross, he said www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Greater gliders not as great at gliding as thought – but still look like magic carpets, experts say

While new study challenges assumptions about how far they travel, witnessing them in action still takes your breath away, scientists say

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🦇 Across Australia, wildlife carers and volunteers continue to respond to extreme heat events — often with limited resources and coordination. Rescue teams monitor bat colonies during extreme heat, spray water to help cool bats, and care for orphaned pups www.merlintuttle.org/what-extreme...

What Extreme Heat Means for Australia’s Flying-Foxes — and How People are Helping - Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation

A Disturbing Scene Beneath the Trees During recent heatwaves across southeastern Australia, heartbreaking scenes unfolded in grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colonies. As temperatures s...

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Lakes Entrance: Join fire behaviour scientist, Dr Philip Zylstra for a deep dive into what happens when forests are burned. Dr Zylstra presents recent fire research on effectiveness of planned burns in reducing bushfire risk events.humanitix.com/planned-burn...

#GunaiKurnaiCountry 🦇Bat of the day Grey-headed flying -fox

#GunaiKurnaiCountry We think there are so many flying foxes in Bairnsdale right now due to the incredible flowering of both Ironbark (Euc.tricarpa) and Red Box (Euc.Polyanthemus) we're seeing in the foothills and coastal forests

#GunaiKurnaiCountry Night survey in an unburnt section of Providence Ponds Flora and Fauna Reserve and the Red Box (Euc. polyanthemos) are really flowering in abundance!

As the economic and ecological ruin of native forest logging is exposed, evidence of illegal surveillance and threats adds to the case for a royal commission. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

The case for a royal commission into native logging

ANALYSIS: As the economic and ecological ruin of native forest logging is exposed, evidence of illegal surveillance and threats adds to the case for a royal commission.

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#GunaiKurnaiCountry 🦇 Grey-headed flying foxes are called an ‘umbrella species’, because so many plants and animals live under their work. Their job is forest building and they are a keystone species in the ecology of east coast forests

🦇#GunaiKurnaiCountry and it's bat-o-clock! Turn the sound up, you need to hear this

Now it’s time to act. Email those in power calling for a real transition away from native forest logging – one that closes loopholes, protects forests through law, makes sure public money supports forests, workers and communities, not business as usual envirojustice.org.au/email-the-pm...

Email the PM to end native forest logging

Native forest logging is a national issue. Will you email the PM to end native forest logging?

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No matter how much public money, suggestions for change and reform or recommendations for value-adding, the industry simply cannot survive without massive subsidies and handouts from government. It has been like this for decades. theconversation.com/victoria-cla...

Victoria claims to have stopped native logging. So why is it importing Tasmanian forests?

There’s no economic or environmental case for native logging. Yet taxpayer money is still being used to support it.

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Take Action | Stop The Fuckery

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#BreakingNews >>> Watch 4Corners tonight 8.30 ABC and iview www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Victoria ended logging. Now it's using another state's native forests

Four Corners follows the logs, and the money, to uncover how efforts to end logging have shifted the timber trade across state borders.

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🦇 #GunaiKurnaiCountry

Recently #FFMV burnt a swamp, remnant old trees and young banksias in the name of community safety. In what rule book does burning a swamp protect anyone from bushfire? #GunaiKurnaiCountry #ProvidencePondsFloraFaunaReserve

Four Corners follows the logs and the money to ask whether the industry is really ending or just shifting state borders. Don't miss 4Corners Monday 22 June at 8.30pm @ABC

As parts of Australia turn away from native forest logging, Four Corners follows the logs and the money to ask whether the industry is really ending or just shifting state borders >> Watch Four Corners Monday 22 June www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... via @ABCaustralia

Timber Turmoil

Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.

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“Since 2009, including 2025, the VIC Government has issued 53,472 ATCWs for the lethal control of protected Australian wildlife, targeting 2,456,094 animals. In 2025 ATCW permits for lethal control targeted 230,673 protected Australia native animals". www.creativecowboyfilms.tv/earth/victor...

Centuries of grazing and burning have reduced this temperate rainforest to just 27ha. That’s white folk fckery right there www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘Let these amazing forests come back to life’; push to expand England’s rainforest

Campaign comes as Duchy of Cornwall announces plan to expand small pockets of ancient woodland at two sites

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Nature in Victoria is being systematically f*cked over. Forests still being logged. National parks defunded. Ocean protections gutted. Wildlife homes carved up. Ferals running free. We’re keeping track. And pushing back. #stopthefckery www.victoriansfornature.au

Home | Stop The Fuckery

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This damaging proposal can still be stopped. Make your voice heard before Monday 25 May. All details on the link bobbrown.org.au/get-involved...

Stop Labor’s Native Forest Sell-Out – Bob Brown Foundation

Tell Labor to reject the logging industry’s Timber Fibre Strategy and protect native forests

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What is a healthy forest? Many proposals to create so-called ‘healthy forests’ through thinning and repeated burning risk further damaging Australian ecosystems already degraded by logging, clearing and over-management. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

What is a healthy forest?

Many proposals to create so-called 'healthy forests' through thinning and repeated burning risk further damaging Australian ecosystems already degraded by logging, clearing and over-management.

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Extinction capital of the so called first world www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Outback cattle station granted permit to cull 20,000 native birds

A permit to cull 20,000 native birds has been granted to a cattle station in the Northern Territory in response to an "overpopulation" of destructive and "exceptionally noisy" galahs and little corell...

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"We found that individual flying foxes can literally travel thousands of kilometres a year, criss-crossing their entire range and sometimes multiple times," Dr Welbergen said. "They are not so much migratory as profoundly nomadic." www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08...

One flying fox's 12,000km nomadic journey stuns researchers

Researchers are reviewing everything they know about the nomadic habits of flying foxes after making a stunning discovery about the huge distances distance the creatures can travel.

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“A new generation of trees is carried on the fur and the tongue, and on the wings that beat through the night carrying the animal to the tree, and carrying the tree’s gifts along to other trees.” euppublishingblog.com/2022/03/10/s...

Shimmer: The Kiss of Life Includes Us, Too - Edinburgh University Press Blog

Eucalypts and flying-foxes come together every year with beautiful timing and exquisite generosity, giving each other great kisses that bring forth new generations of life.

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#GunaikurnaiCountry is wild on the river tonight! Turn the sound up, you need to hear this! It's the tree friends off on the night shift

Archives can be confronting. In hindsight, once celebrated discoveries can be understood as violent extractions animalallegories.com.au/allegories/c...

Animal Allegories

Nature-culture stories that are experimental, visually surprising and sometimes a little strange.

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