Mar 20, 2025 | Latest News, Nature and waterways, Uncategorized
The Conservation Council have today thrown their support for a new law, introduced by ACT Greens MLA Shane Rattenbury, to protect the Ainslie Volcanics from the development of a communications tower. We were happy to join in a press conference about the legislation,...
Mar 4, 2025 | Climate, Latest News
The Conservation Council ACT Region and Comms Declare have today jointly welcomed the passage of a motion in the ACT Legislative Assembly calling on the Government to get fossil fuels out of Canberra’s schools. The motion, moved by Greens MLA Laura Nuttall, calls on...
Feb 26, 2025 | Latest News, Media Releases, Nature and waterways
There is good news and bad news. After pressure from all of us, the Canberra Airport Group has agreed to halt works on the parts of the Northern Airport Road that would impact the habitat of the Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon. The airport have said “We are...
Feb 23, 2025 | Latest News, Nature and waterways, Uncategorized
Friends of Grasslands (FOG) and Conservation Council ACT Region (the Council) have today called on the Federal Minister of the Environment, Tanya Plibersek, to immediately intervene to save the Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon by stopping the construction of the...
Feb 18, 2025 | Latest News, Nature and waterways
The Conservation Council’s Biodiversity Working Group and Friends of Grasslands (FOG) developed a proposal in early 2023 to establish a Biodiversity Network to protect remnants of natural value that are not reserved, whereby these remnants, together with those in...
Feb 14, 2025 | Latest News, Media Releases, Nature and waterways, Uncategorized
The Conservation Council​ ACT Region has​ today welcomed the decision that Block 403 and the undeveloped section of Block 12 of Ngununggula/ Bluetts Block will become part of the Molonglo River Nature Reserve. This significant win for our environment comes after years...
