Latest Environment and Heritage media releases

Glenrock volunteers give small gliders big hope

What better way to mark World Environment Day than to get involved in a local conservation project offering big hope to the survival of small squirrel gliders in Glenrock State Conservation Area.

  • 31 May 2023

Hazard reduction burn for Murrah Flora Reserves

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is planning a hazard reduction burn south of Bermagui in the Murrah Flora Reserves from 1 June, weather permitting.

  • 31 May 2023

Hazard reduction burning in Wondoba State Conservation Area

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is carrying out hazard reduction burns in Wondoba State Conservation Area near Gunnedah over 4 days from 31 May, weather permitting.

  • 31 May 2023

Hazard reduction burn in Bluff River Nature Reserve

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is planning a large, 2-day hazard reduction burn in Bluff River Nature Reserve starting on Tuesday 3 May, weather permitting.

  • 29 May 2023

Yarn about healthy country for glossy black-cockatoos

Shoalhaven's Aboriginal community and Local Aboriginal Land Council rangers will be sharing cultural knowledge of glossy black cockatoos at a series of community workshops this week.

  • 29 May 2023

Latest ministerial media releases

4,500 hectares of koala habitat near Port Macquarie now protected

4,500 hectares of bushland containing koala-preferred habitat near Port Macquarie will be protected forever following its purchase by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.

  • 29 May 2023

National Parks and Wildlife Service ramps up bushfire preparedness

With fire season around the corner, more than 130 national park firefighters are being put through their paces today as part of a rigorous training program designed to maintain and build firefighting capacity in national parks.

  • 17 May 2023

Platypus return to Royal National Park for the first time in decades

Platypus have returned to Royal National Park, after being locally extinct for 50 years.

  • 15 May 2023