Yesterday I did a spot of birding in the shrublands near the edge of Lake Moore, the large (and currently very dry) salt lake which borders Mt Gibson to the east. A couple of highlights were some slaty-backed thornbills (my first confident sightings) and white-winged fairy wrens.

#Thebigdry : forests and shrublands are dying in parched #WesternAustralia
| #read #biodiversityloss #habitatloss

'I saw him last night at Shrublands. But he was dead.'

Kissing and banging at THUNDERBALL's Shrublands.

#Thunderball #JamesBond #SeanConnery #Shrublands

Where is the biodiversity taskforce for Western Australia Roger Cook Reece Whitby? It’s time to declare a #climateemergency

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Trees more than a century old are barely alive. Some of these giant jarrahs might survive, but some won’t

It’s a scene being replicated in forests & coastal shrublands spanning more than 1,000km across WA's south-west after drought & baking heat #auspol loom.ly/FA-Xq_E

Great Barrier Reef bleaching should raise alarms🤔
Doesn't seem to?🙊🙉🙈
But there's more😱
Onland reefs bleached, too: shrublands & forests in West Australia succumb to repeated droughts and rising heat in sw-WA as global warming drives climate change🤯
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The big dry: forests and shrublands are dying in parched Western Australia theconversation.com/the-big-dry-fo… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

The big dry: forests and shrublands are dying in parched Western Australia theconversation.com/the-big-dry-fo… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

The big dry: forests and shrublands are dying in parched Western Australia theconversation.com/the-big-dry-fo… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

The big dry: #forests and #shrublands are dying in parched #WesternAustralia theconversation.com/the-big-dry-fo… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand #ClimateEmergency #wapol #auspol Yet we continue to approve #fossilfuel projects eh? Tanya Plibersek Roger Cook

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So the last thing the West would choose to do would be to artificially grow its population via immigration and increase permanently the pressure on everything! Correct?
Then bloody well say it!

The big dry: forests and shrublands are dying in parched Western Australia ⁦The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand⁩ “Just like a coral bleaching event, WA’s plants are responding to the cumulative stress of the unusually long, hot and dry summer.” theconversation.com/the-big-dry-fo…

[T]his pocket of Australia is unique, cut off from the rest of the continent by desert. Here and only here live honey possums and numbats, towering karri and jarrah trees and red flowering gums. But it’s the southwest which has lost most rainfall…

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Nelore cattle have become the bedrock of Brazil’s cattle industry. They comprise a staggering 80 per cent of Brazil’s 225 million herd, and are present across Brazil’s diverse ecosystems, from the scorching Caatinga shrublands to the humid environs of the Amazon basin. The

The big dry: forests and shrublands are dying in parched Western Australia theconversation.com/the-big-dry-fo… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand #ClimateEmergency #auspol

Take Note Australia. The big dry: forests and shrublands are dying in parched WA #climatedisaster theconversation.com/the-big-dry-fo… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

The Great Barrier Reef is not the only play suffering fossil fuel driven global warming extremes.

In my home state of Western Australia news is breaking of a massive heat and drought induced die back of forest and shrub land in the south-west.

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'Just like a coral bleaching event, WA’s plants are responding to the cumulative stress of the unusually long, hot and dry summer' #Auspol #WApol #Heatwave #FossilFuels #ClimateChange

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Researchers at Murdoch University have published images of dieback happening in shrublands, Northern Jarrah forest and other places which are quite confronting.
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