19th May 2010 Keneally Government Acts to Protect River Red Gum
Traditional Owners and environment groups joined together today to praise the historic decision by the Keneally Government to protect the River Red Gum forests of south-western NSW. The Government announced this afternoon that it will fully protect the Millewa forest in a new ...
3rd March 2010 Parliamentary Inquiry: Immediate action needed to help save our marine life
NPA is urging all supporters to act during the current Parliamentary Inquiry into management of our marine life in NSW. Before March 19th 2010, organisations and individuals are asked to fill out a personalised online form on NPA’s website. Following protests from the anti-c...
3rd March 2010 Groups Unite to Condemn Red Gum Back Down
Eight environment groups from across two States condemned the decision made today by the NSW Government to back down on the protection of River Red Gum wetlands. "Despite yesterday’s rhetoric of new national park protection for Red Gum, the State Government has kept th...
2nd March 2010 Will Keneally Keep her Red Gum Promise?
National Parks Association of NSW and The Wilderness Society Sydney have this morning unfurled a large banner outside the Premier’s office to urge her to deliver today on her promise for large new Red Gum National Parks. A large banner reading ‘Stop logging the Murray Riv...
2nd March 2010 Browns in Charge: Keneally Backs Down on Red Gum Protection
Both The Wilderness Society and National Parks Association of NSW today slammed the Keneally Government, following their back down on River Red Gum protection this morning. The decision opens up the heart of the Murray River floodplain, the exceptional Millewa forest, to on-going...
24th February 2010 Millewa Forest Faces Chop from Red Gum Backflip
National Parks Association of NSW has learnt this week that the iconic Millewa forest, the green heart of the Murray River floodplain, faces imminent destruction from logging as the NSW Government considers a backflip on its Red Gum National Park promise of last year. “The N...
23rd February 2010 River Red Gums National Parks Under Threat
There are real concerns that the River Red Gum National Parks promised last year by the NSW Government are under threat. The combined NSW environment groups have joined together to urge the NSW Government to deliver on their promises. “There will be widespread and lasting c...
17th February 2010 Vulnerable Species Must Trigger Action on Red Gum
National Parks Association of NSW says that an upgrade last week to the list of threatened species in NSW should trigger the NSW Government to urgently deliver on its River Red Gum promises. Five more bird species which live in the River Red Gum forests and wetlands were class...
16th February 2010 New Executive Officer National Parks Association of NSW
National Parks Association of NSW (NPA), a large membership based conservation group, has appointed Kevin Evans as its new Executive Officer, NPA President, Graeme Wiffen, announced today. Kevin Evans has a strong background in zoology and zoos. He emigrated to Australia from ...
10th February 2010 Forestry Department Implicated in Red Gum Demise
National Parks Association of NSW today accused Forests NSW, the logging department, of contributing to the decline of River Red Gum wetlands of south-western NSW by failing to buy water allocations to flood them. River Red Gum forests depend on regular flooding to survive. ...
2nd February 2010 World Wetlands Day Triggers Call for Red Gum Listing
National Parks Association of NSW has used World Wetlands Day to call on the Federal Government to register the Central Murray River Red Gum Ramsar Site as a wetland in danger under the Ramsar Convention. The regional assessment completed by the NSW Natural Resources Commissio...
7th January 2010 International Year of Biodiversity: Ring it in with Red Gum Parks
As we launch into 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, the National Parks Association of NSW has called on the NSW Government to ring it in with new Red Gum National Parks along the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers. In early December, the NSW Government promised to prot...