Department of the Environment

The public consultation period will be open until 6 November 2015.

The Minister has approved the deletion of 15 species from various categories effective 16 September 2015. Fourteen species have been deleted from the threatened species list because the museum specimens that were originally used to describe the...

Environmental water is being pumped into Lyrup Forest (near Berri) this week, using a Central Irrigation Trust backwashing pipe.

The minister has approved publication of the Referral guideline for management actions in Grey-headed and Spectacled flying-fox camps.

Pumping of environmental water into Martin Bend started this week as part of the Natural Resources South Australian Murray-Darling Basin wetland and floodplain program with water and funding support from the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder.

Agency application on ecological sustainability - call for public comments open from 9 September 2015 until 12 October 2015

Agency application on ecological sustainability - call for public comments open from 8 September 2015 until 8 October 2015

The Minister has approved the inclusion of the Southern Highlands Shale Forest and Woodland of the Sydney Basin Bioregion in the critically endangered category, effective 28 August 2015.

The Leadbeater’s possum Action Plan outlines measures we are currently taking as well as a plan to protect and recover the Leadbeater’s possum into the future.

Agency application on ecological sustainability - call for public comments open from 31 August 2015 until 01 October 2015.

History of Proposal to declare an approved wildlife trade operation, including the harvest of hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini, S. mokarran and S. zygaena). The call for public comments is open from 31 August 2015 until 25 September 2015.

Agency application on ecological sustainability - call for public comments open from 31 August 2015 until 01 October 2015 .

The March 2015 Quarterly Update has been released

The March 2015 Quarterly Update has been released

Proposal to declare an approved wildlife trade operation for the incidental harvest of smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena) shark. Comments open from 20 August 2015 until 17 September 2015.

The Threatened Species Scientific Committee is seeking comments on the assessment of Pterostylis psammophila. The public consultation period will be open until 5 October 2015.

Agency application on ecological sustainability - comments open from 17 August 2015 until 14 September 2015

In relation to the statement issued today by the Chair of the Climate Change Authority, the Department of the Environment notes by way of clarification that: In its Final Report on Australia’s Future Emissions Reduction Targets, the...

The Australian Government has agreed a target of 26-28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

Round Four of the Green Army Programme is now open, applications close Wednesday 16th September 2015.