Department of the Environment

An online survey for the independent review of Commonwealth Marine Reserves opens today. The survey builds on the call for submissions that is already underway.

The Minister has approved the inclusion of Shale Sandstone Transition Forest of the Sydney Basin Bioregion and Hunter Valley Weeping Myall (Acacia pendula) Woodland, both in the critically endangered category.

The Australian, state and territory governments today released the Packaging Impacts Decision Regulation Impact Statement.

Proposal to declare an approved Wildlife Trade Operation for the incidental harvest of smooth hammerhead sharks. Call for comments open from 19 December 2014 until 21 January 2015

The successful projects from the 20 Million Trees Programme Competitive Grants Round One 2014-2015 have now been announced.

A Request for Tender process for the Service Provider component of the 20 Million Trees Programme is currently open and will close 2pm (AEDT) 6 February 2015.

The Department has released a new spatial information metadata catalogue and search tool Find Environmental Data (FED) to replace Discover Information Geographically (DIG). FED will allow integration with other Commonwealth services such as Australian Government’s spatial data catalogue FIND and data.gov.au.

Find out the latest updates on the Commonwealth Marine Reserves Review.

The Government is proposing a new set of rules to support the operation of the Emissions Reduction Fund: the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Rule 2015 (the Rules). Comments close 19 December.

The Government is proposing a new set of rules to support the operation of the Emissions Reduction Fund: the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Rule 2015 (the Rules). Comments close 19 December.

Nominations are invited for places for the National Heritage List for the assessment period 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016, nominations close 6 February 2015.

The Department invites your feedback on community awareness of the Emissions Reduction Fund. Responses close 31 December 2014.

Written submissions to the independent review of Commonwealth Marine Reserves open today. The co-Chairs of the Bioregional Advisory Panels, Professor Colin Buxton and Mr Peter Cochrane invite interested parties to provide them with ideas and suggestions on how marine reserves should be managed into the future.

The Australian Government has commenced a water purchase tender for the southern New South Wales catchments of Lower Darling, Murray and Murrumbidgee, closing at 5pm AEST on Friday, 10 April 2015.

Round Five is now open for applications and will close 4pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time), 19 March 2015.

Nominations are now invited for the assessment period starting 1 October 2015, for any threatened species, threatened ecological communities or key threatening processes to be considered for listing under national environment law. Nominations...

See information on Australia’s emissions compared with the United States and China.

See information on Australia’s emissions compared with the United States and China.

The Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database (CAPAD) is used to provide a national perspective of the conservation of biodiversity in protected areas.

Additional funding secured by the Threatened Species Commissioner means 10 innovative projects targeting key species, habitat and threats across the Parks Australia network now have the go-ahead.