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The National Parks and Wildlife Service is concerned about the number of people taking their dogs into national parks in and around the Illawarra.

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has scheduled a hazard reduction burn on Monday 20 September in the Sepoy section of the Gwydir River State Conservation Area (SCA), about 30kms east of Bingara and south of Inverell, weather permitting.

A National Parks and Wildlife Service, NSW Police and Local Land Services surveillance operation has identified people stealing firewood from the Murrumbidgee Valley National and Regional Park and Crown lands.

Endangered Pied Oystercatchers have been spotted on nests, confirming the start of shorebird season on the NSW South Coast.

The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) completed more than 640 hectares of hazard reduction burning over the past seven days across the Hunter Central Coast region.

The NSW Government today announced $1.49 million in funding to four local councils under the 2020-2021 Coastal and Estuary Grants Program to assist with increasing the resilience and health of coastal communities and their coastlines.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Rob Stokes have today announced the appointment of Kiersten Fishburn as the new Secretary of the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE).

Koalas, rock wallabies and the Nightcap Oak are some of the iconic species set to be protected under an historic National Parks plan to declare 221 sites as Assets of Intergenerational Significance (AIS) and set a target of zero extinctions of species on the NSW National Park estate.

In a first for the state's capital, the NSW Government has awarded $274,000 to support 20 local councils joining forces to protect over 480 square kilometres of Sydney Harbour.