Dec 13, 2021 | Latest News
2021 ACT Environment Award Winners The ACT Environment Awards celebrate the efforts and accomplishments of environmentalists and environment groups, and the contributions they have made to the environment in the ACT and beyond. A large number of nominations were...
Nov 27, 2021 | Latest News, Nature and waterways, Urban planning
Canberra’s Western Edge: the new urban development frontier Most Canberrans would be unaware that the ACT Government has flagged plans for the Territory’s urban footprint to radically expand to the west. Identified in the Government’s 2018 ACT Planning Strategy,...
Nov 26, 2021 | Latest News, Nature and waterways, Urban planning
The Conservation Council ACT Region is disappointed by Defence Housing Australia’s recently released revised development plans for Lawson North, noting that the proposal to construct single and multi-unit residences over critically-endangered natural temperate...
Nov 12, 2021 | Climate, Latest News, Media Releases, Transport, Urban planning, Waste
The Conservation Council ACT Region welcomes the report on Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions in the ACT, produced by the Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment and tabled in the ACT Legislative Assembly on 11th November. “This report is an important step...
Nov 6, 2021 | Latest News
The ACT Environment Awards celebrate the efforts and accomplishments of environmentalists and environment groups, and the contributions they have made to the environment in the ACT and beyond. This year we will be celebrating the contribution to our environment and...
Nov 5, 2021 | Campaigns, Latest News, Nature and waterways, Urban planning
Below the Molonglo River Reserve and to the West of Denman Prospect Development, is a remarkable natural area known as “Bluetts Block”. Two ecological communities are found at Bluetts Block 1) Dry Forest with a shrubby-healthy-grassy ground layer located on higher...
