Department of the Environment

The Threatened Species Scientific Committee is seeking comments on a proposal to list the Coastal swamp sclerophyll forests of south-eastern Australia as a threatened ecological community. Consultation closes on 12 May 2021.

The Threatened Species Scientific Committee is seeking comments on a proposal to list the Lowland Tropical Rainforest of the Wet Tropics Bioregion as a threatened ecological community. Consultation closes on 19 May 2021

The Threatened Species Scientific Committee is seeking comments on a proposal to list Pseudophryne dendyi (Dendy’s Toadlet). Consultation closes on 28 May 2021.

The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open until COB 13 May 2021.

Each year, more than 4 000 industrial facilities estimate their emissions and waste transfers of toxic substances and report them to the NPI. Now in its 22nd year, the NPI helps communities, governments and researchers understand and monitor the...

We are seeking expressions of interest for the delivery of specialist services under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984. We are looking for report writers and consulting agents (mediators). Submissions close on 26 April 2021.

On this day in 1911, the single screw steamer SS Yongala was bound for Townsville.

The Minister for the Environment, the Hon Sussan Ley, amended the list of threatened species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 by adding one species to the list and transferring one species within the list....

The Threatened Species Scientific Committee is seeking comments on a proposal to list 3 species of frogs. Consultation closes on 7 May 2021.

The Minister for the Environment, the Hon Sussan Ley, amended the list of threatened species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 by adding 14 species to the list, retaining 1 species within the list and transferring 5 species within the list.

The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open until COB 25 March 2021.

An outstanding historic precinct with a diversity of historic parks, gardens, streets, archaeological sites and buildings has been added to the National Heritage List.

Nominations are invited for species, ecological communities or key threatening processes to be considered for listing under national environment law during the assessment period starting 1 October 2021.

The Threatened Species Scientific Committee is seeking comments on a proposal to list Bidyanus bidyanus (Silver Perch) in the Endangered category. Consultation closes on 12 March 2021.

Water for the environment will be delivered into part of the upper Barwon River system over the coming weeks to help native fish communities recover following the driest four-year period on record.

We are inviting suitably experienced and skilled entities to submit a partnering proposal to establish a product stewardship scheme for photovoltaic (solar) systems.

A new five year partnership with the managers of Calperum Station—Australian Landscape Trust—paves the way for delivery of water for the environment to continue improving the health of the Calperum floodplain - part of the Riverland Ramsar site.

Recent surveys of the lower Darling/Baaka River have revealed the good news we’ve been waiting for – Murray cod are breeding.

The Threatened Species Scientific Committee is seeking comments on a proposal to list 3 species of frogs. Consultation closes on 22 January 2021.

Science improves our understanding of how plants and animals respond to water for the environment and informs how we deliver flows to best support them. Recent highlights from Flow-MER scientists are now available.