Aug 7, 2025 | Latest News, Nature and waterways
Last week, The Australian Labor Government gave the Canberra Airport the go-ahead to build it’s northern airport road, destroying vital habitat of Canberra’s very own lizard, the critically endangered Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon. The Government...
Aug 4, 2025 | Canberra Grassland Earless Dragons, Latest News, Media Releases, Nature and waterways
Today, the Conservation Council ACT Region (the Council) and local environmental groups condemn the Federal Labor Government’s decision, last Wednesday, to allow Capital Airport Group (CAG) to destroy vital habitat of Canberra’s very own lizard, the critically...
Jul 16, 2025 | Campaigns, Canberra Grassland Earless Dragons, Latest News, Nature and waterways
On 8 July 2025, Mr Stephen Byron, the CEO of Canberra Airport Group (CAG), made several claims on ABC Radio about matters ecological (Footnote 1). He said the area of Natural Temperate Grassland (NTG) which CAG is preparing to dig up and move into a seed bank, which...
Jun 23, 2025 | Campaigns, Canberra Grassland Earless Dragons, Latest News, Nature and waterways
Friends of Grasslands (FOG) and Conservation Council ACT Region (the Council) are today raising the alarm on the Capital Airport Group’s (CAG) imminent plans to “move” Natural Temperate Grassland that is the final remaining quality habitat for the critically...
Jun 3, 2025 | Latest News, Transport
The Conservation Council ACT has today joined with four other local Canberra groups to call on Minister Chris Steel to establish a standing Transport Consultative Forum along similar lines to the existing Environment and Planning Consultative Forum or the Biodiversity...
Jun 3, 2025 | Climate, Latest News
Canberra climate activists are uniting with Conservation Councils across Australia. Demonstrators will convoy today with Albanese’s Woodside Carbon Bomb (see image), to all four Labor politicians – outraged and heartbroken by the Environment Minister Murray...
