Sep 14, 2020 | ACT Election Priorities 2020, Nature and waterways
Our biodiversity faces many threats, yet the ACT Government has not yet committed to protect all areas with conservation values or mitigate against threats like roaming cats. The ACT hosts the largest remaining remnants of Grassy-Box Woodlands and Native Temperate...
Sep 8, 2020 | ACT Election Priorities 2020, Nature and waterways, Past Events
The Conservation Council hosted our second Election Forum on Nature, Biodiversity and Waterways on Tuesday 22nd September at 5.30 pm. The ACT is home to two critically-endangered ecological communities, which include 52 threatened species. The protection of remaining...
Sep 3, 2020 | ACT Election Priorities 2020, Nature and waterways, Past Events
The Conservation Council, in conjunction with Pedal Power, Public Transport Association CBR, Living Streets Canberra and the Australian Electric Vehicle Association (ACT Branch), hosted our first online Election Forum on Sustainable Transport on Tuesday 15th September...
Aug 21, 2020 | Latest News, Nature and waterways, Urban planning
17th August 2020 MEDIA RELEASEÂ Call on Defence Housing Australia to rethink Lawson North development Over a hundred conservation groups, scientists, land managers and volunteers from across Canberra and the region have called on Defence Housing Australia to rethink...
Jul 30, 2020 | Latest News, Nature and waterways, Past Events
The Conservation Council hosted another Environment Exchange on Thursday, July 30th on the topic of ‘reimagining our urban waterways’. Guest speakers Dr Fiona Dyer, Kate Harriden and Plaxy McCulloch each provided interesting insights into how we currently perceive and...
Jun 26, 2020 | Latest News, Nature and waterways
It is exciting to say that 23rd July 2020 is the 50th Anniversary of Black Mountain becoming a conservation reserve. It is even more exciting to say that Ian Fraser and Rosemary Purdie have written a wonderful book, Black Mountain a natural history of a Canberra icon,...
