Alpine and subalpine ecosystems are among the environments most vulnerable to climate change. In Australia, rising temperatures, declining snowfall, prolonged droughts and...
Bridging the Gap: Growing need for Wildlife Corridors
Biodiversity in NSW continues to face mounting pressure from landscape fragmentation and disturbance. Since European colonisation, 54% of forests and woodlands in NSW have...
Community led bushfire recovery: Upper Yango Landholders Association
Following the 2019-20 Black Summer fires and Wollombi valley floods in both 2020 and 2022, a group of landholders...
Detection dogs: Scientist’s-best-friend in times of climate crisis
From airport biosecurity lines to crime scenes, detection dogs are well known—but their most surprising role may be in...
Impact of Bush Fires On Platypus Revealed
Using a unique method of monitoring “environmental DNA,” researchers have been able to identify the effect of bushfires not...
Wildlife Fire Response Training for Firefighters
Are you someone who is often on the front line after a fire or extreme weather event? Do you...
WATCH – NCC Bushfire Conference 2023 Recordings
Nature Conservation Council hosted our 13th Biennial Bushfire Conference Managing Bushfire Together: Applying science, skills and stories” on the...
NCC Bushfire Conference 2023
NCC’s 13th biennial Bushfire Conference, “Managing Bushfire Together: Applying science, skills and stories”, took place on the 24-25th May,...
If you’re curious about how Indigenous cultural burning from around 10,000 years ago has implications for current land management,...
Drones – The Future of Bushfire Management?
A recent article in the Guardian has explored the use of remotely piloted drones in order to facilitate the...
Protecting Hollows With Citizen Science
Around the country, communities are using the power of citizen science to help protect a highly ecologically valuable and...
Thinning Forests for Bushfire Management – Does It Work?
Particularly following the 2019-2020 bushfire season, various techniques to lessen the severity of bushfires have been discussed in great...
Climate, Fire and Biodiversity webinar series
The Threatened Species Recovery Hub hosted a four part webinar series in August/September (2020) on climate, fire and biodiversity....
Old Growth Forests: when giants fall….
Kim Stephan, ecologist and NCC representative on the Far North Coast Bushfire Management Committee, shares her insights on the...
WATCH – NSW Bushfire Inquiry Research Projects
NSW Bushfire Risk Management Research Hub hosted five webinars in September (2020) on the research projects undertaken to assist...














