Hugh Possingham

University of Queensland (40%), Accounting for Nature (10%), Biodiversity Council (10%), loves birds, trying to be useful, RT not endorsement

[Hugh Possingham @HugePossum]

If we want Australians to be happy and healthy - I wonder if our best return on investment is in protected areas?

[Biodiversity Council @Biodivcouncil]

Visiting national parks not only makes people healthier, but reduces their medical costs. A study by @UniofAdelaide found that trips to metro national parks by people who live in Adelaide saved the SA health system $140 million per year. This is 50 times more than the cost of running the national parks.

https://t.co/WqG1JeSzM1

@AILA_National @envirosanews @ConservationSA

[Hugh Possingham @HugePossum]

@Irina_exh Wow - great fact

[Hugh Possingham @HugePossum]

@biigityaaa I see a Pygmy hippo

[Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social @markgkenny]

A well-argued rejoinder to the bilious tide of saint-claiming going on right now. From a business owner/originator who clearly knows what he’s talking about. Bravo

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

This additional $387.4 million for CSIRO is welcome and reflects huge and effective advocacy from scientists, staff and the community.

Tens of thousands of people signed our petition to Save CSIRO, and alongside other senators I pushed for a senate inquiry into the agency’s resourcing because 🇦🇺 can’t afford to keep hollowing out public science.

But after years of declining investment, more long-term funding is still needed. I’ll keep pushing the government to back the science and scientists we need to meet the huge challenges ahead.

Thanks to @SenKatyG and @ayrestim for making this decision to invest in our national science agency.
https://t.co/q7UkyVihag

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

I ran for the Senate because I wanted to help make politics about people again - not multinationals, vested interests or party donors.

And that's why our campaign to get a 25% gas tax matters.

Public pressure has made politicians pay attention and we have to keep it up because it can help make sure in one of the wealthiest counties on earth (and biggest gas exporters in the world), more Australians actually feel the benefit of our gas exports.

Head to https://t.co/dcjuwV2f9S to make your voice heard.
https://t.co/MmN1vVOro2

[Diego F. Correa @diefelcorr]

Excess nitrogen is degrading tropical waters
Offsets only work when three conditions align: feasibility, performance, and co-benefits. We present a global framework to design and implement them. Open access: https://t.co/OiFB2FecDd #WaterQuality #Conservation @UQ_News @HugePossum

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Australia leads the world in mammal extinctions, but the govt could let the Saving Native Species Program fall off a funding cliff on 30 June.

This is the program fighting invasive species like the yellow crazy ants, and protecting endangered species like the Koala.

You can't do long-term conservation work on short-term funding cycles, and a one-year Band-Aid won't cut it. We re part of nature and if nature goes down, we go down with her.
https://t.co/1LZ7KPjgj0

[Hugh Possingham @HugePossum]

@shouq_al90149 $3.65

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺

None . Nada . Zip.

For the first time since records began!

How did this happen?

One word

VACCINES!!!!!

[Meredith Stanton @CloudsCreek]

Australian grey-headed flying fox economic and ecological value of poo revealed https://t.co/w6jbWnz2eK via @ABCaustralia
One of the ways bats disperse seeds is by ingesting fruit then defecating the seeds.
#forests #pollination #conservation #science

[Melanie Hinds @hinds_mela61795]

Harrison Ford on Donald Trump: "I don’t know of a greater criminal in history. He doesn’t have any policies, he has whims.”

RETWEET if you stand with Harrison Ford against Donald Trump!

[Simone 🌿🌏☕️ @kangabella]

Heartfelt thanks to conservationists for all you do to protect our wild places and wildlife. #auspol https://t.co/JSsGpUHsGN

[Hugh Possingham @HugePossum]

@otokyo 2

[Hugh Possingham @HugePossum]

@wiseconnector Pie

[Hugh Possingham @HugePossum]

@davis_s2210 Wow

[Hugh Possingham @HugePossum]

@kendalljayyzhxu 4 - because I am a werewolf