Latest Environment and Heritage media releases

Worrigee Nature Reserve hazard reduction burn

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service is planning a hazard reduction burn in Worrigee Nature Reserve, Wednesday 11 September, weather permitting.

  • 11 Sep 2024

Blue Mountains National Park hazard reduction burn underway

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) will be conducting 2 hazard reduction burns in Blue Mountains National Park, Wednesday 11 September, weather permitting.

  • 11 Sep 2024

Carbon on Country funding launched

The NSW Government is investing $2.5 million to support Aboriginal organisations in NSW in establishing and managing carbon projects on their land.

  • 10 Sep 2024

New Holland mouse joins koalas and eastern bettongs in Yiraaldiya National Park

Koalas and eastern bettongs reintroduced into the first feral predator-free national park in the heart of western Sydney are thriving and have now been joined by the New Holland mouse, which was once presumed extinct in NSW.

  • 09 Sep 2024

Koala spotters wanted for annual Bongil Bongil surveys

Coffs Harbour residents are being encouraged to enrol as volunteers to join the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) on nighttime koala surveys in Bongil Bongil National Park.

  • 09 Sep 2024

Latest ministerial media releases

Release of zoo-bred birds boosts critically endangered Regent Honeyeater numbers

In a significant step towards the conservation of one of Australia’s most critically endangered birds, 49 zoo-bred Regent Honeyeaters have been released into the wild on Wonnarua country in the lower Hunter Valley.

  • 16 Sep 2024

NSW Consumer Energy Strategy to save money and power across NSW

The Minns Labor Government has today unveiled its Consumer Energy Strategy: Powering our People and Communities, which will make it easier for households and businesses to access energy saving technologies like solar, batteries and energy efficiency upgrades, that will help reduce their energy bills and ease cost of living pressure.

  • 16 Sep 2024

$1.1 million awarded to NSW Environmental Researchers

‘Living’ boulders and seed production are some of the innovative environmental research projects to secure a share of $1.1 million from the NSW Environmental Trust.

  • 16 Sep 2024

NSW Government welcomes ongoing market interest in Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap tenders

Interest from industry in being part of the transition to renewable energy in NSW has been reaffirmed, with an impressive response to the first tender for access rights for the South West Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) under the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap.

  • 12 Sep 2024

Cruise ships to stay out of Jervis Bay Marine Park

The Minns Labor Government has ruled out any expansion of cruise ship tourism in Jervis Bay Marine Park, to ensure the protection of the park’s important natural and social values.

  • 12 Sep 2024