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,...
Feb 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
If you’d like to write a letter to Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek regarding the North Airport Road, you can use this below as a template. Dear Minister Tanya Plibersek I am writing to ask that you immediately revoke the approval for the Northern Airport...
Feb 23, 2025 | Campaigns, Canberra Grassland Earless Dragons, 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 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...
Feb 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
All of Ngununggula/Bluetts Block deserves to be a Nature Reserve – instead it remains under threat as long as Canberra’s Western Edge is viewed as a possible next frontier for urban development. All development that will impact on the area’s important natural values...
Feb 3, 2025 | Latest News, Nature and waterways, Uncategorized
This article is written by Rainer Rehwinkel, a member of Friends of Grasslands and the Conservation Council’s Biodiversity Working Group It’s not that often we get a good news story when it comes to the interaction between community groups and the maze of ACT...
