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23.01.2022 Mick Woiwod RIP may you float across the forest and valleys of Birrarung with Bunjil. So much more than a bricklayer, you built bridges into the past, passionately seeking the truth of our colonial frontier. And built a bridge toward our shared history. We are all the better for your legacy. #Birrarung

22.01.2022 Love this, Love the Djirri Djirri Dancers

20.01.2022 Thanks Stace NichoPiper for speaking up about this unsustainable forest 'management'. Forest clear felled to the ground commits that patch of forest life - perhaps 30 or 40 Hectares for each 'coupe' to a drier and more flammable patch of forest for at least a century. And as the whole industry has been driven by office paper for decades now - there is little chance of a value added hardwood industry - no chance. VicForest has told timber mills the timber just isn't there.... We need to move past incompetant 'management' to stewardship. Stewardship for our future water, for Carbon stores, for climate amelioration, and for wildlife. A forest good for wildlife is a biodiverse forest able to bounce back after wildfire (Treeferns for example Re sprout & protect vulnerable soil with massive fronds), gives more water to the Yarra River and hence #Melbourne. Yes Melbourne you need to visit the home of your waters, yes that wonderful water too often taken for granted that pours into your kitchen sinks, showers, baths and gardens. #choosetap #forest #waterislife #taungurungcountry #wildlife #climate #Wurundjericountry

19.01.2022 A water story from NSW High Country, alpine wetlands are the birthplace of major rivers. Giant living sponges of water and life - the wonder plant Sphagnum moss is like a golden goose able to hold 17 times its dry weight in water. Quite an asset for the driest continent on earth. Pristine perrenial waters everflowing, even through drought times. These alpine wetlands are being destroyed by large numbers of feral horses and tragically the NSW government in an appalling decisio...n has passed legislation protecting these horses. There must be another way - mountain waters need to be seen as sacred. In a very real practical sense these mountains can provide everflowing pristine waters to already stressed rivers in the lowlands - instead these wetlands are being degraded and drained. Once magical wetlands becoming effectively hard impacted surfaces just like urban catchments. This is an entry into ReclaimKosci video competition. Each film a minute in length. Shot and edited by Ryan Tews Co-Produced by Don Butcher.

18.01.2022 Beautifully stated by Adam Fletcher our forests are so precious, and becoming more so as they stand up to our warming world. Yet we pulp them for office paper! For decades now it is office paper that drives the ‘timber industry’, madness. ... Could have been a sustainable value added sawlog industry for Victorian jobs. Only 1% old growth remains, let alone the plight of a future old growth forest. Too late now. Transition urgently needed Premier Daniel Andrews. #wurundjericountry

17.01.2022 Big news for Victoria's forests from The Federal Court

17.01.2022 This was forest until recently filtering rainfall and then providing pristine waters to one of the Yarra’s important tributaries - Big Pats Creek, just a few minutes drive from the upper Yarra town of Warburton. Clearfell logging of Victoria's public forests at this rate is not sustainable. For around four decades the forests have been overcut with large clearfell coupes like this, and largely for a Japanese owned paper mill that currently takes more than 80% of the forest ma...terial thats trucked away. This has compromised the sustainability of a value added Victorian sawlog industry. All the small mills currently operating have been competing with this giant paper mill. The forest that 'grows back' is ecologically simpler - it has hardly any treeferns and no long lived understory species like Musk Daisy bush (a tall shrub able to live 400 years). Old trees do not survive the 'regeneration burn', if they do there is no longer a canopy of former forest to protect them from the greater wind speeds. The forest is drier for at least 100 years, it is therefore more flammable. In a #climateemergency this is careless, reckless 'management' of our future. We need stewardship of this critically important landscape not management. The First Nations of this forest country have not been consulted, these Wet Forests are the source of once lively wild and free rivers of wonder - Yarra, Latrobe, Thomson and Goulburn. Importantly these rivers down in the lowlands - had former abundant wetlands seasonally pulsing with an abundance of life that powered rich livelihoods. Fish and particularly eels, ducks and Magpie Geese in abundance - these Wet Forested mountains gave life to the lowlands - the floodplains their swamps and billabongs. Today the waters of the Wet mountain forests are heavily used by us for drinking water and irrigation (the Goulburn RIver) we treat them like this at our peril, water yields drop significantly for around a century. In the driest habitable continent this is short sighted indeed. #WurundjeriCountry

13.01.2022 Extremely disappointing this patch of very special forest would even be considered to be smashed to the ground! VicForest - in a #climateemergency a major role you need to now play is hold moisture in our wet forest gullies not commit a patch of forest to 100+ years of flammability. Be a steward of the landscape for our future - carbon, water, wildlife. The valley of the giants survived 2009 Black Saturday fires - thankfully, this is a living treasure. Lily D'AmbrosioMP yo...u can stop this madness. This clearfell coupe is dangerously close to the amazing giant tree The Kalatha Giant - an elder of the forest. Not to mention Myrtle Beech trees in Cool Temperate Rainforest, the brilliantly colourful Barred Galaxis fish in the nearby creek (another Gondwanan survivor) and Greater Gliders - quite literally Australia's Flying Koala. #FFS #shame #waterislife #forest #rivers #YeaRiver headwater forest

11.01.2022 So much respect due here Alice after Day 2. The beautiful Manna gum providing Alice’s platform is a short walk from her childhood home east of Warburton in Big Pat's Creek. Looking out at a forest of Mannas from this viewpoint - these trees are on the way to becoming a future old forest. Cutting this forest we are cutting our future. Manna gums (Eucalyptus viminalis) are special trees for Wurundjeri people. As the very name of the people ‘Wurundjeri’ comes from the tree ...and an insect that lives within. As Wurun is the name for this beautiful tree, and Djeri is the name of a large white caterpillar or grub within the tree. Translated Wurundjeri becomes ‘The caterpillar people of the White Gum’. Our unburnt forests after the summer's wildfires are too precious for an industry driven by office paper. We are selling our soul Australia Nippon Paper produces Reflex paper. Too precious for so many reasons Carbon, Water, Wildlife and Climate. The forests of the central highlands are being destroyed. Write a letter and an email, let's all stand up for nature. #WurundjeriCountry #StopLoggingCountry #RespectTheScience https://www.facebook.com/ProtectWarbyRanges/videos/237935127457065/

10.01.2022 Amazing to think we still have platypus after all we have thrown at them. Though common sense would question the platypus’s precarious future - streams cop so much of our societies neglect - street runoff, sewage, plastics, etc.

10.01.2022 Today is Rakali Awareness Day One very cool Aussie wonder! #Rakali #RakaliAwarenessDay #Biodiversity

06.01.2022 How beautiful, how powerful is this - Sculpture of Wurrundjeri elder and statesman for his people William Barak https://youtu.be/M3CdgvFikfk

04.01.2022 Amazing Wurundjeri Women's dance group the Djirri Djirri's under the tall trees in Toolangi forest, 'Toolangi' comes from Taungurung word for tall tree. #Wurundjericountry #Taungurungcountry And quoting from the Youtube page for the film, have a read - the dance is deeply meaningful Awesome work - six levels of country. 'We dance in a sacred space, in the mountain Country of the Wurundjeri and Taungurung people.... Bringing song and dance back to this special place. The giant trees and wildlife remember this sound, as do our Ancestors. Tharangalk Bik Bunjils Home, Forest Country above the clouds. Wurru Wurru Bik Sky Country, Bunjil and Waa watch travel and watch over us. Murnmut Bik Wind Country, where our voices travel, singing Country, where we get our voice. Baanj Bik Water Country, this gives us life. Biik dui On Country, where we walk and conduct our business. Biik ut Below Country, where the roots of the trees reside, water resides. Yarra River, Yarra Ranges, Mountain Ash Trees, Roots, Forest Country, all layers sing. Our ochre paint up represents Wurundjeri Womens Business, Bunjil’s wings, Motherhood, Sisterhood, Honouring of our Ancestors. The songs represent our Creation, our Values, our Respect and Protection of Country. This Country is being clearfell logged for wood pulp and reflex paper. Film Production - Ryan Tews Sound Recording - Ryan Tews Vocals - Mandy Nicholson , Stace NichoPiper Dancers - Mandy Nicholson, Dharna Nicholson-Bux, Ky-ya Nicholson-Ward, Sue-Anne Hunter, Mikayla George, Hailey George, Kiera Hunter, Georgia Cappochi-Hunter, Stace Nicho Piper, Jedda Pedden, Fenna Piper ' https://youtu.be/lZIELe6uDMc

02.01.2022 We're bringing some of Greater Melbourne's unique areas straight to you so you can enjoy them in the comfort of your home. Take some time out and enjoy this vie...w of Maroondah Reservoir from above. The Maroondah water supply system is part of an extensive and complex series of water storage and delivery networks which have helped supply Melbourne with clean drinking water since the 1890s. Established in the north-east of Melbourne, the system includes Maroondah Aqueduct, Coranderrk Aqueduct and Maroondah Reservoir. The park area that surrounds the base of Maroondah Reservoir’s dam wall is considered one of the most significant designed parkland landscapes in the state.

02.01.2022 Now that you’re here, the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you Cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better... It’s not. Wes Tank raps ‘The Lorax’ Thanks Kaitlyn Alexandra for introducing me to this via Leigh Redding #Lorax #trees #forest #biodiversity #education #earlyeducation https://youtu.be/tgMsmyenj6k

01.01.2022 Almost 10 years ago (June 2010) and the fight for Victoria's critical mountain ash forests of the Central Highlands was focused on an importantly biodiverse are...a near the Valley of the Giants beyond Toolangi, around 70 kilometres to Melbourne's north east. The 'Kahuna Tree' was one example of the towering old mountain ash trees in this region that was left standing after industrial clearfell logging took out the forest. Big Kahuna was subsequently killed in the post-logging burn and now stands as a haunting monument to a once glorious area of forest. Around 80% of her fellow tall trees were sent down Highway 1 and pulped for the paper mill to make Reflex brand paper. We are now faced with the possibility in the next few days that valuable forest right near The Kahuna Tree with equally large trees and critically endangered wildlife will be felled and again trucked out to feed the contract with the foreign owned paper mill. Zinger coupe must not fall to the hand rubbers and contracts of this antiquated industrial system. Take a stand for the critically endangered Leadbeater's Possums and Barred Galaxia fish, and threatened Greater Gliders. Stop the logging! Be on the Right Side of History. See more