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NSW still holding the Murray Darling Basin Plan back

February 14, 2023

Media Release February 14, 2023 The Murray Darling Basin Authority has released a six-monthly report card on the progress of the Murray Darling Basin Plan, highlighting yet again that when it comes to the Basin Plan, NSW continues to have the hand brake on....

Perrottet Government signs death warrant for inland rivers

February 03, 2023

Media Release 3 February 2023 The controversial regulation to legalise the diversion of billions of litres of water from NSW’s inland rivers with floodplain harvesting levees has been gazetted today. These are essentially the same regulations that have been previously disallowed by the Upper...

COALITION PAYING LIP SERVICE TO KOALAS AND OTHER THREATENED SPECIES

February 03, 2023

This week’s paltry funding announcements by the Perrottet Government will do little to help save koalas and other threatened species from extinction. Voters should not be conned by the few million dollars allocated to a handful of environmental research projects. Nature Conservation Council Chief...

Polling shows majority support in New South Wales for an end to native forest logging.

January 25, 2023

Nature Conservation Council NSW, the state’s biggest environment group, has unveiled polling which shows 54% of people in New South Wales oppose logging in state forests. The release coincides with a visit by NCC Chief Executive Jacqui Mumford to the Bulga blockade on the...

MPs and state election candidates see forest logging first hand

January 20, 2023

Key independent MPs and candidates took to NSW State Forests today to shine a light on the need for forest protection ahead of the upcoming New South Wales election.

NSW Labor commits to serious koala protection

January 19, 2023

The Nature Conservation Council of NSW, the state’s peak environment organisation, welcomes Labor’s Plan to Save Koalas. NCC Chief Executive Jacqui Mumford says the plan represents serious and overdue action to address the most pressing threat facing koalas in our state. “Loss of habitat...

Murray Cod vanishing from the Darling-Baaka

January 17, 2023

Appalling water management is to blame for the complete eradication of the iconic Murray Cod in stretches of the Darling-Baaka River in New South Wales. The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Monitoring, Evaluation and Research program’s 2022 survey found not one single Murray Cod between...

Nature Conservation Council of NSW cautiously welcomes federal government's response to the Samuel Review on national environment law.

December 08, 2022

The Government's response to the Samuel review of national environment law reiterates its intention to end nature destruction and move toward nature repair, but the critical test will be whether this reform package can stop extinctions before more is irreversibly lost. "This is...

Endangered listing of Southern Greater Gliders: more evidence of the damage

December 02, 2022

The listing of the Southern Great Glider as an endangered species highlights the urgent need to ban native forest logging in New South Wales.

Coalition reopens the ‘koala wars’ by introducing a new bill to facilitate logging of koala habitat on private land

November 14, 2022

The NSW Government has released details of its plan to strip local councils of their ability to limit native forest logging and implement environmental controls which protect threatened species. “It’s a clear power grab by the National Party which has always been hell bent...