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With world leaders discussing a global deal on climate change in Copenhagen from next week, the Nature Conservation Council is expecting a record number of people to attend Walk Against Warming on Saturday 12 December.

“While our global leaders talk the talk at Copenhagen, we’re walking the walk all over the world as a call for strong leadership and tough, swift action from our governments to deal with the climate crisis,” Cate Faehrmann, event organiser and executive director of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, said today.

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The state’s peak environment group has called for shark nets to be removed from NSW beaches after the death of an adult female dugong in a net off Sydney’s Coogee beach today.

“Shark nets are quite the misnomer as these indiscriminate death traps take their toll on a wide range of marine animals, including the endangered dugong found today,” Marine Campaigner Ben Birt said today.

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The Nature Conservation Council of NSW supports Rivers SOS’s landmark Land and Environment court challenge commencing today of the State Government’s approval of longwall mining directly under a key source of Sydney’s water supply, Woronora Dam.

Nature Conservation Council Executive Director Cate Faehrmann said it was vital the NSW Government started putting the community’s right to clean, fresh water before the interests of the mining industry.

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New jobs, economic growth and fewer greenhouse emissions are the ‘win-win’ result for NSW following the government’s decision to increase the rebate for households to install solar panels and also pay them for the extra electricity they generate, the Nature Conservation Council of NSW said today.

The Premier has announced households will receive an increase in the rebate available for installing solar panels by $1500 and that a ‘gross feed in tariff’ will be introduced, paying households for thee extra electricity they produce.

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