Here is our paper published today on dangerous climate feedback loops. Yes, it is appropriate to be scared and now we need to act and go big on climate mitigation. Greta Thunberg News Greta Thunberg Prof Michael E. Mann Bill McKibben cell.com/one-earth/full…

Corymbia ficifolia, the Red Flowering Gum from WA. Is this your #EucalyptoftheYear? Last year, #friendsofficifolia drove a spirited campaign & helped the Red Flowering Gum place second! Can they bring the win back west in 2023? Vote now: surveymonkey.com/r/C8YT83X 📸: M Cooper

Join the Mini Bioblitz on 5th March to revisit sites from the Walpole Wilderness Bioblitz last year plus extra sites. Meet at 8.30am in Walpole Pioneer Park (opposite the bakery). More details and RSVP here: [email protected] 📸IG elbuho_nival

A $1.3m IanPotterFoundation grant will help a team of scientists led by us and Edith Cowan University (ECU) design strategies to protect critical peatland ecosystems in WA's South West, giving a fighting chance to rare species like the fascinating Sunset Frog #UWA Western Australian Museum bit.ly/3Yv8rEG

Been told that “leaf lichens” are rare to non-existent in SW WA, so is this a “leaf lichen” or just a lichen growing on a leaf? Found on Gahnia decomposita in long unburned Karri/tingle. #lichen #biodiversity

Just because it seems normal, doesn't mean it is. 'Shifting baseline syndrome' describes the gradual acceptance of degraded environmental conditions as the new normal. 📸: Cameron Shepherd

This World Frog Day let’s spare a thought for our incredible amphibian friends like the threatened Sunset Frog - endemic to the Walpole region of Western Australia. Frogs are in the most threatened class of vertebrates in the world and need our help more than ever. Pics: mine.

It's hard to fully grasp the new UN climate science report. Climate change can feel far away, like someone else’s problem. To make it real, I think about my home state of Western Australia. I've compiled what #IPCC says about current impacts of climate change & what's predicted🧵

A great day yesterday to celebrate the Red Tingle and Red Flowering Gum with Dahl Fellow, Dr Elizabeth Edmonds and a host of outstanding speakers. #NationalEucalyptDay Eucalypt Australia - Archived

Found masses of flowers in this Pitcher Plant, Cephalotus follicularis. The flower spikes on this one relatively short due to lack of competition from surrounding vegetation. #walpolewilderness

4 months after prescribed fire the bush is looking nice and green. Closer inspection reveals a large number of Jarrah and Balga deaths. Surviving Jarrah show significant canopy loss (many metres of height), heavy epicormic and lignotuber sprouts. Decades for full recovery.

Great two days looking for peat sites in the Walpole Nornalup Wilderness to do hydrological scienc. Biodiversity and Conservation Science, UWA's Greg Skrzypek, Jim McCallum, Holy Winkle and Dr David Edmonds @LizJEdmonds.

Winter in the Walpole Wilderness sees the peats fully recharged and bubbling away. #bogday

1/11 (🧵) We have 8 exciting opportunities to join the PEAT project as a PhD student, based either at School of Biological Sciences, UWA or at Centre for People, Place & Planet. If your background is botany, entomology, soil science, genetics, AI, cultural studies, geochemistry or hydrology, then we have a niche for you!