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Win for the Macquarie Marshes as Mining Application Withdrawn

April 25, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 24th April 2025  Win for the Macquarie Marshes as Mining Application Withdrawn  The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has welcomed the withdrawal of a controversial mining-related application affecting the Macquarie Marshes, one of Australia’s most precious wetland ecosystems.  Canadian-owned Australian Consolidated Gold...

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Proposed National Park Teeming With Endangered Gliders Yet Logging Continues

April 17, 2025

MEDIA RELEASEApril 17th, 2025 The Forest Alliance of NSW calls on the Minns’ Government to act on findings of a newly released NSW Government report and promptly declare the full 176,000 hectare Great Koala National Park. The report shows the proposed park is key...

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Renewable energy boom must deliver for people, nature, and regional communities

March 20, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 20th March 2025  Community leaders from the Hunter and New England Renewable Energy Zones have travelled to NSW Parliament House to urge politicians from all parties to get behind the renewable energy transition and to ensure it benefits both communities and nature....

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NCC calls for urgent reform after more mass fish kills hit NSW’s North Coast

March 18, 2025

18th March 2025  The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, has called for vital state government reform in response to ongoing mass fish deaths on the NSW North Coast.  The unnatural frequency of fish kill events...

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Minns Government must act to fix our rivers

February 24, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE24th February 2025   The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, has welcomed the review of the water rules for Menindee Lakes and the Lower Darling/Baaka River by the Natural Resources Commission.   The review of the Water...

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World Heritage values threatened by delays to the Great Koala National Park

February 13, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE11th February 2025 A new report from environmental groups has found the Great Koala National Park would be eligible for World Heritage status, but says those values are under threat every day logging continues. The Nature Conservation Council NSW (NCC), Bellingen Environment Centre...

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