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The NSW Government is taking action to combat invasive weeds by investing nearly $500,000 into a program that manages 2 Weeds of National Significance with biocontrol agents.

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is finishing 2 very large hazard reduction burns in the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park East of Armidale and Walcha starting 11 August and continuing over the weekend.

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, with the Rural Fire Service and Fire Rescue NSW, will be undertaking 4 hazard reduction burns across the Sydney basin over next few days.

The NSW Government has adopted an amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan which authorises aerial shooting as an additional control method to reduce the number of wild horses in the park.

$80 million is being invested by the NSW Government to protect koalas and secure their habitat in south-west Sydney.

The NSW Government has confirmed that NSW-government-owned sites around the Sydney Harbour foreshore will be free for the public this New Year's Eve, fulfilling an election commitment.

The NSW Government has introduced its landmark Climate Change Bill, to enshrine emissions reduction targets in law in New South Wales and establish an independent Net Zero Commission.

New South Wales will host a Koala Summit on Friday 22 March 2024 to inform the government’s work to protect the Australian icon.

The latest data from the Department of Planning and Environment shows more than 379,000 hectares of native vegetation was cleared in the years following the previous government's biodiversity policy changes. That's an average of nearly 95,000 hectares a year.