Sep 4, 2025 | Climate, Latest News, Nature and waterways
The Conservation Council ACT Region has today expressed dismay after the ACT Government refused to take concrete steps on a commitment to phase out wood heaters in the Territory by 2045, which was initially announced in 2023. The Government yesterday voted down a...
Aug 12, 2025 | Latest News, Nature and waterways
Standing proud and tall One could study me Guessing I’m a mighty Pine Or a She-Oak tree My branchlets look like feathers Of a rain forest bird Listen and they’ll whisper Wind will have them heard Anchored in the earth Nature comes to me Lots of different birds Need a...
Aug 7, 2025 | Latest News, Nature and waterways
The Conservation Council ACT Region is very concerned about a proposal to develop a business park over critically endangered Natural Temperate Grassland that could – if protected – help connect two sites occupied by Canberra Grassland Earless Dragons. This is high...
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...
