How can Coalition & Labor govts not only stand by & watch the wholesale destruction of the Great Barrier Reef but actively lobby AGAINST listing it as 'in danger' AND keep subsidising & approving the fossil fuel projects that are killing it?
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Reminder that Amazon and Space X are fighting in court to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional.

This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the government agency that holds them accountable for union busting.

Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.

Gladstone port, now dominated by dozens of coal and liquefied gas carriers, is “gateway to the southern Great Barrier Reef”.

Two more coal ports lie further north, shipping vast amounts of fossil fuels through the World Heritage Area every day, for as long as it’s profitable.

I like how Joe Biden doesn’t want to track women’s pregnancies.

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

Another poll suggesting the public doesn’t buy the arguments of exploitative generative AI companies.

This March 2024 poll of 2,110 people in the UK found:

- 4 out of 5 people think the law should forbid AI training on music without creators’ knowledge / permission

- 77% think…

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In April, @usfws announced the expansion of four national wildlife refuges in New Mexico, North Carolina and Texas to conserve habitat, protect species and support recreation.

Photo by USFWS

Beltane, the Celtic name for May Day, has origins in ancient pagan rituals from the Iron Age. The Celts believed Beltane marked the beginning of summer, and that fire would bring fertility back to the world. The word Beltane comes from the Irish Gaelic Bealtaine or the Scottish…

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (1st May🔥) was at 5.38am, sunset is at 8.31pm #Beltane #MayDay

Despite bipartisan opposition, the U.S. House Representatives passed Rep. Boebert’s bill to remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves endangered.org/wildlife-advoc…

Yesterday the House of Reps passed HR 764, which would remove protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states. The bill passed along party lines + sets a dangerous precedent - that species' status could be determined by Congress, not scientists.
newsday.com/news/nation/wo…

#Australia

Snake-necked turtles shared the world with dinosaurs 200 million years ago.

Now rescuers are in tears as they collect their bodies after wetlands dry up in record heat in Perth, & introduced foxes pick them off.

They are vital for lake biodiversity & water quality.

Could a Netherland’s zoo project rescue coral reefs?

My response: 'The world needs faster, bolder efforts to stop the damage from climate change... You can’t replace a magnificent ecosystem with an aquarium,”

nz.news.yahoo.com/wild-corals-su…

An aging marine biologist inspects a giant old coral that’s fighting for its life due to anthropogenic heating.

Surrounding it are stands of recently dead and dying staghorn corals, for as far as the eye can see.

This is what mass-mortality looks like. theguardian.com/environment/20…

We all love desert tortoises, but if you ever encounter one in the wild, please leave it alone. If a tortoise is scared, it will void its bladder, potentially losing a year's worth of fluids that it needs to survive.

Photo by Brad Sutton / NPS

The Center is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for the illegal shooting of a bald eagle in Cedar City, Utah.

This eagle deserves justice so that others cannot suffer the same fate. More info➡️ biodiv.us/43Yq0Sc

The Mexican government is building a railway expansion project straight through a crucial wildlife corridor for imperiled jaguars, ocelots and black bears without doing any environmental impact studies.

Help top this railway in its tracks ➡️ biodiv.us/3Und2bY

For the past decade, an estimated 10+ football fields per day of Mexican forests have been cleared to expand avocado production. Tell U.S. officials to protect Mexico's forests by halting avocado imports from recently deforested land.

Take action 🦋➡️ biodiv.us/49TXbHD

I'm on Texas Public Radio today with David Martin Davies - voting present by proxy to discuss CBP's plans to blast bright-as-day lighting into 45 miles important wildlife habitat in the rural Texas borderlands.

Pollinators, bats, migratory birds & wildlife need the dark to survive.tpr.org/podcast/the-so…

We are getting excited to host our #OWLOpenHousefundraiser this weekend May 4th & 5th, 10am-3pm.
Meet dozens of species of raptors, listen to an educational talk on raptors, watch a rehabilitated eagle be released at 1pm, play games, win raffles prizes, enjoy food trucks, & more