Media Releases

June 29, 2023

29th June 2023 Necessary First Step: Nature NSW welcomes audit of environmental offsets, calls for system wide approach.   The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC), the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, has welcomed today’s announcement of a “full audit of environmental offsets” by Minister for Environment and Water, Tanya...

June 22, 2023

22nd June 2023Worth more standing: as NSW’s debt mounts, NCC calls for an end to subsidies for the logging industry.  The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the states leading environmental advocacy organisation, has today responded to the foreshadowed NSW budget deficit by...

June 20, 2023

What:       Regional conference for state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation.  When:       Sat 24th Jun 2023, 8:45 am - Sun 25th Jun 2023, 3:00 pm AEST Where:      Charles Sturt University, Albury-Wodonga                     386 Elizabeth Mitchell Dr, Thurgoona NSW 2640, Australia Who:        Convened by the Nature Conservation...

June 02, 2023

2nd June 2023Paying Aussies to pollute - Peak environment groups denounce Jemena Energy for incentivising gas switch While the Victorian and NSW state governments are implementing policies designed to break Australia's toxic gas addiction, one gas company is blatantly undermining these programs by offering...

June 01, 2023

1st June 2023  NSW metering policy not holding water: plans to meter all water pumping in NSW float away as deadline once again not met  As the June 1 deadline arrives, the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, wishes to...

May 25, 2023

13th May 2023  Dams don’t make water, they kill rivers and downstream communities  The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state's leading environmental advocacy organisation, has today criticised the misinformation being spread by members of the northern NSW agricultural elite, and...

May 23, 2023

Map of the proposed Great Koala National Park (white outline). Red is areas Forestry Corporation NSW plans to log in the next 12 months, white polygons are ’koala hubs’ - the most important sites of koala habitat in NSW, and green is state forests that...

May 19, 2023

19th May 2023  Special treatment for the worst polluters: Government admission highlights the need to stop new and expanded coal mines in NSW  The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state's leading environmental advocacy organisation, has today argued that the recent submission by...

May 18, 2023

The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, is excited to announce the appointment of Jacqui Mumford as CEO.   The Executive Board of the NSW Nature Conservation Council has appointed Jacqui to run the organisation following...

May 10, 2023

MEDIA RELEASE  May 10th, 2023 The Albanese Government has committed $146.8m in this budget towards their election promise to complete the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, but failed to commit the funds needed to deliver on the final 450 gigalitres (GL) of water for the environment....