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Forestry Corporation must investigate breaches of post-fire logging standards in Mogo State Forest
May 18, 2021
Forestry Corporation appears to have breached its own post-fire logging rules in Mogo State Forest by cutting down a large ironbark, a feed tree for the critically endangered swift parrot. Swift parrots migrate from Tasmania to the mainland during winter and feed on the...
Read MoreNSW Regional Environment Conference 2021 in Batemans Bay this Saturday
May 17, 2021
More than 100 people are expected to attend the NSW Regional Environment Conference at Bateman’s Bay this Saturday (May 22). “The South Coast of NSW is one of the most stunning places in the world, with an astonishing variety forests, beaches and wetlands,” Nature...
Read MoreTransport for NSW's referral of biodiversity offsets trades to ICAC is welcome
May 07, 2021
“We welcome news that Transport for NSW has referred to ICAC the sale of biodiversity offset credits in relation to major public works in Western Sydney,” Nature Conservation Council Chief Executive Chris Gambian said.“Reports in the Guardian Australia that some well-placed individuals have made...
Read MoreClimate, air quality, deforestation and river health should be top of the agenda for Upper Hunter by-election candidates
May 06, 2021
The Nature Conservation Council urges all candidates in the Upper Hunter by-election to put climate change, air quality, the protection of wildlife habitat, and river health at the top of their agendas. “Climate change is the number-one economic and environmental challenge facing communities of...
Read MoreFloodplain harvesting regulations are a death sentence for our rivers
April 30, 2021
The Nature Conservation Council is urging members of parliament to disallow new regulations legalising the practice of floodplain harvesting that were released today, saying that allowing irrigators to divert floodwaters under the regulations will starve rivers, wetlands, and downstream communities and ecologies of huge volumes of water. “Many of our rivers and wetlands are...
Read MoreBiodiversity offsetting in NSW drives habitat loss and super profits for a lucky few
April 28, 2021
The Nature Conservation Council will today refer to ICAC the sale of biodiversity offset credits in relation to major roadworks in Western Sydney. Lisa Cox at the Guardian Australia today has revealed more details of windfall profits made by those associated with EcoLogical, a...
Read MoreFar West gas fields - where is the water coming from?
April 26, 2021
The NSW Government should protect water supplies, farmland, communities and wildlife in the Far West by immediately ruling out the development of an industrial gas field in the region, according to the NSW Nature Conservation Council. The government this year resurrected plans to let...
Read MoreWollar is collateral damage in Barilaro's chaotic coal “strategy”
April 23, 2021
Nationals Leader John Barilaro has thrown the community of Wollar near Mudgee under a coal truck by using a new process to open up land for exploration without consulting the people who live there. [1] “Wollar already has three massive coal mines on its...
Read MoreGovernment must refer biodiversity offsets scandal to ICAC and review the whole system
April 16, 2021
The NSW Government must refer to ICAC the sale of biodiversity offset credits in relation to major roadworks in Western Sydney and conduct a comprehensive review of the state’s biodiversity offsets regime following revelations byThe Guardian Australia today. [1] In a sensational piece of...
Read MoreUpper Hunter voters deserve honesty and hope
April 14, 2021
The Nature Conservation Council calls on all candidates in the Upper Hunter by-election to outline a vision of how to help workers and communities deal with the inevitable decline and end of coal mining in the electorate. “People in the Upper Hunter deserve honesty...
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