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A huge win for Coombs Peninsula, over ten years in the making
On the 14th of May, a resolution was passed in the ACT Legislative Assembly to protect the Coombs Peninsula from urban development in the future. This resolution marks an over decade-long struggle to guarantee a level of protection for Coombs Peninsula that is...
The Conservation Council writes to the Ministers regarding the Western Edge Investigation Area
Today, the Conservation Council ACT Region has formally requested the ACT Government commit to the following asks of the "Save our Western Edge!" campaign: Keep the Western Edge outside of the to-be-set ACT urban boundary Take the Western Edge out of the ACT...
Dismay as Government refuses to progress wood heater phase out
The Conservation Council ACT Region has today expressed dismay after the ACT Government refused to take concrete steps on a commitment to phase out wood heaters in the Territory by 2045, which was initially announced in 2023. The Government yesterday voted down a...
A She-Oak tree. Poem by Edwina Smith
Standing proud and tall One could study me Guessing I’m a mighty Pine Or a She-Oak tree My branchlets look like feathers Of a rain forest bird Listen and they’ll whisper Wind will have them heard Anchored in the earth Nature comes to me Lots of different birds Need a...
Conservation Council ACT Region raises concerns about proposed new business park in Symonston
The Conservation Council ACT Region is very concerned about a proposal to develop a business park over critically endangered Natural Temperate Grassland that could – if protected – help connect two sites occupied by Canberra Grassland Earless Dragons. This is high...
Australian Labor Government approves northern airport road, destroying vital habitat of Canberra’s very own lizard
Last week, The Australian Labor Government gave the Canberra Airport the go-ahead to build it's northern airport road, destroying vital habitat of Canberra's very own lizard, the critically endangered Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon. The Government communicated the...
The Australian Government allows Canberra Airport Group to slay Canberra’s critically endangered Grassland Earless Dragon
Today, the Conservation Council ACT Region (the Council) and local environmental groups condemn the Federal Labor Government’s decision, last Wednesday, to allow Capital Airport Group (CAG) to destroy vital habitat of Canberra’s very own lizard, the critically...
Rebutting claims by Capital Airport Group regarding matters ecological at the Canberra Airport
On 8 July 2025, Mr Stephen Byron, the CEO of Canberra Airport Group (CAG), made several claims on ABC Radio about matters ecological (Footnote 1). He said the area of Natural Temperate Grassland (NTG) which CAG is preparing to dig up and move into a seed bank, which...
Canberra community groups decry Capital Airport Group’s absurd attempt to “move” large grassland habitat of the critically endangered Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon
Friends of Grasslands (FOG) and Conservation Council ACT Region (the Council) are today raising the alarm on the Capital Airport Group’s (CAG) imminent plans to “move” Natural Temperate Grassland that is the final remaining quality habitat for the critically...