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The northern section of Kosciuszko National Park has reopened to visitors following the winter closure of the area.

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is alerting residents in the Illawarra region of ongoing helicopter operations starting in October and, pending weather conditions, lasting around 3 months as a part of ongoing works to the Illawarra Escarpment Mountain Bike Project.

The Seabirds to Seascapes (S2S) team is calling on all citizen scientists to record seal spotting's along the coast of NSW with the help of the online Haul-Out, Call-Out platform to further inform future marine conservation efforts.

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has undertaken a control program to remove hundreds of invasive animals threatening the globally significant ecosystems of Barrington Tops National Park.

Residents in the Illawarra are advised to be extra cautious when in public as magpie breeding season has begun, bringing the potential for protective swooping from magpies.

Speakers for the world’s first Global Nature Positive Summit in Sydney from 8-10 October have been announced.

Two more ‘extinct’ species have been returned to Sturt National Park in far western NSW as part of a ground-breaking partnership between the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Wild Deserts consortium.

The former Elsie Refuge in Glebe, founded to shelter and advocate for women experiencing domestic and family violence, has been added to the NSW State Heritage Register. Established in 1974, Elsie Refuge was Australia's first domestic violence refuge for women and children.

The state’s newest national park has been named Cuttaburra National Park, in recognition of its key geographical features which are unique to the north-western corner of NSW.

The Minns Labor Government is permanently protecting another 4,148 hectares of habitat on private land – including 1,692 hectares of koala habitat – thanks to new koala conservation agreements in Armidale and Uralla.