Environment Awards Council's Environment and Sustainability Branch has received a number of awards for excellence in environment and sustainability programs and projects.
Glossy Black Cockatoo Conservation The Glossy Black-Cockatoo is a charismatic, beautiful bird. It is also vulnerable to extinction. The Glossies in the Mist project aims to protect the beautiful Glossy Black-Cockatoo in the only remaining vegetated corridor between the southern Blue Mountains and Morton National Park.
Green Web Green Web is an exciting project which maps high environmental value lands across the Shire, including important wildlife corridors such as the Great Western Wildlife Corridor and Maps priority investment areas for biodiversity conservation, including private lands.
Native Vegetation Mapping Project This exciting new project will create a new fine scale vegetation map across all land in the Shire, more accurately identify endangered ecological communities, create an integrated native vegetation resource and establish how the map will be maintained and improved into the future.
Reports and Resources Wingecarribee Shire Council current environmental strategies and plans as well as up to date reports on the state of the environment.
Southern Highlands Platypus Conservation Project The Southern Highlands Platypus Conservation Project aims to gain a better understanding of platypus distribution, habitat, status and threats throughout the Southern Highlands.
Southern Highlands Koala Conservation Project The Southern Highlands Koala Conservation Project was established by Wingecarribee Shire Council in partnership with the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage to take what was the least understood koala colony in NSW at the time, and make it amongst the best understood koala colonies in the country.
Wall to Wollondilly - River Project The Wall to Wollondilly is a project led by Greening Australia to restore and rehabilitate the Wingecarribee River between the dam wall at Glenquarry and the confluence with the Wollondilly River.