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Devastating Impact of Mismanaged Rivers Laid Bare in Powerful New Report

June 10, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 10th June 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has today launched a landmark report which reveals the deep cultural, social and economic toll of poor water management in the Murray-Darling Basin. The Lifeblood of Inland NSW: The Socio-Economic and Cultural Importance of Healthy Rivers...

Shooting Lobby’s Bill Puts Public Safety and Nature at Risk

June 04, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 4th June 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) and the National Parks Association of NSW (NPA) strongly condemn a new Bill introduced by the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party, which would undermine conservation efforts, put public safety at risk, and hand over...

Yancoal Faces Backlash at AGM Over Mine Expansion Proposal

May 28, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 28th May 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC), Rising Tide, and the Knitting Nannas have staged a protest outside Yancoal Australia’s AGM to protest their plans to expand their controversial Moolarben coal mine, which will clear over 100 hectares of endangered...

NSW Taxpayers on the Hook for Biggest Native Logging Loss in History

May 15, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 15th MAY 2025 Forestry Corporation squandered $14.9m of taxpayer funds in just six months logging the state’s natural forests, according to its half-year report tabled in parliament last week. "It's not environmentally sustainable and it's not economically sustainable,” Nature Conservation Council NSW (NCC) Policy...

Avalanche of clean energy a turning point for NSW households and climate

May 08, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 8th May 2025 The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) has welcomed today’s announcement that major renewable energy projects have been granted grid access in the Central West of the state, unlocking a huge wave of clean power that will help transition the state...

Win for the Macquarie Marshes as Mining Application Withdrawn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MEDIA RELEASE 24th April 2025 Win for the Macquarie Marshes as Mining Application Withdrawn The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has welcomed the withdrawal of a controversial mining-related application affecting the Macquarie Marshes, one of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...

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...

High Court confirms community right to take NSW Forestry Corporation to court to enforce logging rules in NSW

April 09, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE 9th April 2025 The Forest Alliance of NSW has welcomed today’s landmark ruling by the High Court of Australia confirming the right of community and Indigenous groups to bring legal action against the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) to enforce NSW logging...

Centennial Coal’s plan to dump toxic mine water in Sydney drinking water catchment given tick by state’s planning umpire

March 31, 2025

MEDIA RELEASE31 March 2025 Nature Conservation Council NSW (NCC), the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, has called on Centennial Coal to clean up its act as the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has today approved the transfer of polluted water to a dam that discharges...

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....