Media Release: Conservation Council launches positive vision for future of the Western Edge

Oct 12, 2026 | Latest News, Media Releases, Save Our Western Edge

The Conservation Council ACT Region has today released a plan to protect and restore the Western Edge, a 9800-hectare area of critically endangered bushland, farmland and recreational sites located on Canberra’s doorstep. The Conservation Councils’ Western...

Canberra rallies to tell forestry conference: no social licence for native forest logging

Oct 12, 2026 | Latest News, Member Group News Post, Nature and waterways, Uncategorized

Last week, Canberra Forest Alliance joined with Friends of the Forest Mogo, Knitting Nannas for Native Forests (South Coast loop) and the Bob Brown Foundation to call for an end to native forest logging outside of the venue of the Australian Forestry Symposium in...

Canberra’s Bus Stops & Citizen Science

Oct 6, 2026 | Climate, Latest News, Transport, Uncategorized

This post was prepared by Conservation Council volunteer and Chair of the Transport Working Group, Bill Gemmell. Unlike much of Australia, Canberra and its surrounding districts have four distinct seasons. Winter and summer can both be harsh, with large daytime...

Murray-Darling Conservation Alliance: Dead parrots and wilting Red Gums, but Murray can save the Murray

Oct 1, 2026 | Healthy Waterways, Latest News, Nature and waterways

A new Commonwealth report into the Murray Darling Basin reveals why Red Gums are wilting and Regent Parrots are threatened, with only a little over half the purported benefits of an irrigator offset actually eventuating. In 2017, Commonwealth and state ministers cut...

Platypus: Our Quiet Neighbours in the Western Edge

Oct 1, 2026 | Healthy Waterways, Latest News, Nature and waterways, Save Our Western Edge, Uncategorized

At dawn and twilight, along the Murrumbidgee and Molonglo rivers, is when you’re most likely to see one of the Western Edge’s more reserved residents. If you crouch quietly on the river bank, you may see the glide of a sleek body along the surface and a ripple...

Community members visit Question Time to directly ask the Planning Minister about saving our Western Edge

Sep 22, 2026 | Campaigns, Latest News, Nature and waterways, Save Our Western Edge

Forty community members filled the Legislative Assembly Chamber during Question Time today to hear questions asked of the Planning Minister as to whether he will keep Canberra’s Western Edge outside of the to-be-set urban growth boundary for the ACT. We had...