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Join us for the Launch of Bush Buds!
After months of behind the scenes work, we are excited to launch our newest campaign: Bush Buds - Discover the wonder of Canberra’s Nature! Canberra is known as the Bush Capital for a reason. We are lucky to share the Territory with many amazing plants and animals -...
Make the Switch video series – can you help?
Fulfil your acting dreams and help the planet! The Conservation Council is making a new series of short videos on the topic of making the switch from gas cooking to induction cooking, and we need talent!
Catch up on ANU’s 2023 Climate Update
Did you miss the ANU’s 2023 Climate Update? Catch up with this quick summary and suggested actions.
The Plight of the Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon
What's going on with Canberra's Dragons? In 2019, taxonomists realised southeast Australia’s Grassland Earless Dragons are not all the same. They found there is actually four different Dragon species. One of the...
A Biodiversity Network for the ACT
You are invited to join us for the launch of the Biodiversity Network Paper: a tenure-blind framework for cohesive nature conservation across the ACT. The ACT, like the rest of Australia, is battling an extinction crisis. Approximately 6.2% of Canberra’s mature trees...
Federal Government’s Environmental Law Reform still Leaves Young People with a Nature Emergency
This week, on the backdrop of scientists’ timely declaration that the fate of the entire living world, including us, hangs in the balance of biodiversity conservation – we held our breath. Hoping that when the Minister of the Environment announced her “Nature positive plan” for law reform, we could finally have a world to look forward to, where we can imagine the future. The news that we had hoped for never arrived. Instead of taking a stand for Australia’s nature, and protecting our nation’s future, the Minister presented a disappointing plan that is entirely ill-equipped to tackle the nature emergency.