Latest Environment and Heritage media releases

Blue Mountains NPWS staff help Canadian fire effort

Three Blue Mountains-based NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) staff have joined an international effort to fight wildfires burning in Canada.

  • 08 Jun 2023

Hazard reduction burn in Seven Mile Beach National Park

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service will be conducting a hazard reduction burn in Seven Mile Beach National Park beginning Saturday 3 June.

  • 02 Jun 2023

Hazard reduction burn in Blue Mountains National Park

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service will conduct a hazard reduction burn in Blue Mountains National Park on Saturday 3 June 2023, weather permitting.

  • 02 Jun 2023

Hazard reduction burn in Curracabundi National Park

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service is conducting a hazard reduction burn 55 km north-west of Gloucester in Curracabundi National Park beginning on Friday 2 June.

  • 02 Jun 2023

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.

  • 01 Jun 2023

Latest ministerial media releases

New koala population found in Coolah Tops before first statewide count gets underway

A healthy koala population has been discovered in the high-elevation forests of Coolah Tops National Park with the help of thermal drones and sniffer dogs.

  • 08 Jun 2023

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