Media Releases

April 18, 2023

  18th April 2023  Giant trees almost felled: Suspension of logging highlights the need for greater oversight of NSW forestry Corp  The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, has today welcomed the cessation of logging operations...

March 30, 2023

   30th March 2023    NCC welcomes court decision on water theft, calls for stronger sentencing in the future  The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC), the states peak body for climate and environment, has today welcomed the finding of criminal liability for Brewarrina...

March 29, 2023

29 March 2023   The Nature Conservation Council has applauded Premier Chris Minns’s decision to visit Menindee on his first day as Premier of New South Wales.   Premier Minns will travel to the far west of the state to see first hand the...

March 22, 2023

The New South Wales Government must immediately halt operations at Peabody Energy’s Metropolitan Coal Mine in the Royal National Park near Helensburgh, following a new report which has uncovered the discharge of contaminated metals into Worona Reservoir which supplies drinking water to Sydney and...

March 14, 2023

14 March 2023 With less than a fortnight to go until the state election, leading water experts, traditional owners, MPs and candidates will take part in this evening’s NSW Online Water Forum to discuss the future of the Murray Darling Basin Plan. After years...

February 28, 2023

New South Wales still has a long way to go when it comes to preserving critical koala habitat, despite the announcement of new national parks in the east and west of the state.  While the acquisitions will be a great step toward Australia's commitment...

February 24, 2023

With the deadline of June 2024 fast approaching, environment groups encourage Minister Plibersek to stand up to NSW and Victoria by purchasing water as the only cost-effective, practical way to return water to rivers. Ahead of a meeting of Murray-Darling Basin water ministers today,...

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....

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...

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...