That URL. What even is it?

Read this to the tune of Surfin’ Bird

I'm a retired school teacher (amongst other work experience) so I can't help myself 😆 Alongside of that I believe that it's really important to encourage children to become curious, surprised and awed by what this continent gifts us and which many adults seem to be adamant in destroying.

Thank you for the offer. I'll hit you up if they do.

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Nelliie the Melbourne daily thread Numbat approves

Thank you for the feedback 🙂 . If you want me to source the occasional resource that your children can use for projects I can do that too.

I'm happy and encourage the idea. I try to take the kids on walks to find native animals but there seems to be less and less of them. Except the roos and cockies

Yup, that's right. I didn't want to put anything too graphic here in case it is used by children.

For headed penis.

Sparkles!

Knuckles!

Information on predators is included in the above resource. Look under 'Predators and competitors'. "Nest box predators include: Brushtail Possums, Sugar Gliders, Ravens, Currawongs, free ranging cats and foxes (yes, they can climb!)" Snakes and goannas also predate on eggs and chicks. Here's some more info and there's plenty more by doing a search: https://nestboxtales.com/nest-box-predators-and-competitors/feral-predators/

Are these cat safe?

Cats kill an estimated 2 billion animals in Australia each year

Common names on this list are brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difenacoum, and difethialone.

A similar but safer first generation coagulant is Warfarin, sometimes used as a medication to treat venous thrombosis.

It all boils down to an industry measurement called LD50 which stands for "Lethal Dose 50%" which is a data based measure of the amount of grams of poison per kilogram of animal bodyweight in which 50% of cases die (illustrated as g/kg or mg/kg in charts). Ideally, the LD50 is very low but also still effective in killing mice and rats. For example, LD50 for dicofol, Kelthane, Kelthane MF oral intake is 570-595 mg/kg, so a rat which weighs up to 800g will likely die if it orally consumes more than 476 mg. At the same time, a Black-shouldered Kite bird of prey could potentially die from merely eating intestines of the rat.

There are other measures which make some poisons better than others such as discrimination: being more effective on the target than other types or animals, low resistance: some animals will adapt to poison if they eat a low dose and survive, and degradability: if the poison can break down easily then it's less likely to have secondary victims but it also loses effectiveness faster.

The perfect poison does not exist, but some should be banned due to their harmful consequences. The ideal poison would discriminately kill rats, be stable when dry but break down quickly after being ingested, and have a low chance of resistance forming.

Excellent! But let’s hope the lights don’t go out. Some landlords are ok with tenants creating veg patches. If you or one of your friends have a reasonable landlord, you might be able to start now and get the benefits sooner rather than later. Another alternative that I’ve read about is to see if there is an older person or someone who owns their place but can’t look after it properly and offer to grow vegs in their backyard. You get some, they get some, and the garden doesn’t go to waste.

Again, this is not just the case for Glossy BCs but for many species of our native birds for whom caring people have put up nest boxes given the growing destruction of older trees with natural hollows. Many of our bird and mammal species need hollows for shelter and reproduction. These hollows take upwards of one hundred years to form so there has been an increase of nest boxes being put up by individuals and organisations alike to ensure these species have a place in which to raise young. The problem is, however, that with global warming if nest boxes are not positioned correctly or constructed adequately eggs and chicks can overheat and die so we have to be very careful. We must not stop putting up nest boxes, just make sure that we do it properly wherever we are. Thank you for putting this topic up. I'll see if I can find another that provides more detail.

I had to look it up but over 40% is just coal for electricity. Cars and planes together is 17.5%

Might I also suggest at least a 3 month supply of dehydrated/canned/nonperishable foods as a buffer. More would, of course, be better but you'll want some kind of buffer before gardens start producing.

I'm stuck in the rent-for-life trap unfortunately, but I'm stockpiling shovels, gardening tools, and heirloom seeds so that the second the lights go out my neighbours and I can get to work on turning all our lawns into productive gardens. I also have materials stockpiled for a solar still, hopefully society crumbles before it all goes bad from sitting around too long! 🤞

😪 And this is no just happening in SA. It's happening all over the country, perhaps not to the same degree (yet) due to heatwaves and also their habitat being razed to make way for development. This has happened in the regional area where I live. It's so important that we speak up or all these unique Australian species which are diminishing in leaps and bounds in some areas but gradually though relentlessly in others. Let's focus on conservation as much as on renewable energy.

Car and planes are not main factors. Majority of CO2 emission coming from different sources.

I wouldn't say I dismissed her, read most of the article, seems serious don't have much to say, Darwin would already be uninhabitable for me, 30 degrees in winter is ridiculous so yeah I think NT should prepare for even hotter days but that's not worth really saying so just noticed the funny name analogy

pretty much this, if her name had been Ned Anvil working for Blacksmith Company would have made the same silly joke

I think you're doing a fair bit of jumping to conclusions there yourself, pointing out a good bit of nominative determinism can be just amusing rather than necessarily being ill intentioned.

If she had a different name and was described as Dr Orca from the Marine Conservation Society that would also be amusing and a comment regarding that could just be that rather than a jab at her.