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How much do you know about bogs and fens?
NPA ACT is undertaking a 4-year community education program about bogs and fens, and needs your help. The project has support from the ACT Government and the Australian Government Natural Heritage Trust, To help us develop our campaign, we have prepared a...
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Popular NPA bird guide updated
NPA’s popular Field Guide to the Birds of the ACT has been updated and reprinted for the fifth time since it was first published in 1993. The latest reprint, in May 2025, has a new foreword and minor changes to the status of a few birds based on more...
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Petition launched to reopen Ginninderra Falls
An ACT Government e-petition calling for the reopening of Ginninderra Falls, west of Belconnen, has been started by a local action group. The falls and surrounding land are up for sale raising concerns that the sale could rob the public of access to the...
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NPA calls for a more rational approach to dingo management
By Rosemary Hollow Dingoes continue to get a bad press from some of the farmers bordering Namadgi Park, with the Canberra Times reporting on 18 May that NSW farmers Peter and Laura Luton were concerned that the ACT Government is considering changing the...
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NPA renews call for review of dingo management
NPA says it would welcome a review of the entire management system for dingoes in the ACT, and has called for the use of more accurate labels to describe ‘wild dogs’. In a letter to the Canberra Times (26 May 2025), NPA president Dr Rosemary Hollow and...
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Drones capture dingo behaviour in Namadgi
Researchers using drones have captured the behaviours of wild dingoes while hunting macropods in Namadgi National Park. The research findings, published in a CSIRO paper, conclude that dingoes display predatory behaviours similar to those documented in...
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ACT Government announces additional $4.5m to save iconic lizard
The ACT Government has provided an additional of $4.5 million over 4 years to help prevent the extinction of one of the Territory’s most critically endangered species, the Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon. This new funding builds on $2.7 million...
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Parks closed for annual pest control program
The ACT Parks and Conservation Service will carry out its annual Thermal Assisted Aerial Control (TAAC) program from Thursday 8 May to Friday 30 May 2025. This operation targets vertebrate pest species in key conservation areas, water catchments, and...
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Hopes rise for repeal of feral horse Act
The campaign to remove feral horses from Kosciuszko National Park made a major step forward in March when a petition to the NSW Parliament to repeal the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act was handed over to Dr Joe McGirr, MLA for Wagga Wagga. Dr McGirr will...
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Have your say on new Tidbinbilla plan
The ACT Parks and Conservation Service (PCS) has reviewed the Tidbinbilla Plan of Management 2012 and recommends that a new reserve management plan for one of Canberra’s most iconic and visited natural attractions be developed. To help in the...
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‘Protect nature now!’
Young people in the ACT are deeply invested in the future of our environment and want to see nature protected now so that it will thrive for generations to come a report by the ACT Office of the Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment (OCSE) has...
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Dismay over proposed EPBA amendment
A proposal by the federal government to remove the opportunity for judicial review of environmental approvals has ‘dismayed’ the National Parks Australia Council (NPAC), the peak body representing National Parks Associations. In a letter to prime...
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Cycling in ACT parks and reserves
By Trevor Costa Bicycle riding in ACT parks and reserves has become a recent addition to NPA ACT’s regular outings program. While some may question whether bikes should be permitted in such areas because of the potential impact on fragile landscapes, it...
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Airport halts roadwork over threats to endangered dragon
After pressure from conservationists, Canberra Airport Group has agreed to ‘hold off’ work on a section of the Northern Airport Road on land inhabited by the rare Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon. The Canberra Airport Group said it had agreed to...
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NPA welcomes Bluetts Block protection
The ACT Government’s decision to extend the Molonglo River Reserve in Stromlo and Denman Prospect, covering part of the area commonly referred to as ‘Bluetts Block’, has been welcomed by NPA ACT. ‘This is an important and beautiful conservation area on...