Northern Territory Environment Minister, Kate Worden, has declared the Western Davenport Water Allocation Plan 2024-2027 (WDWAP). The WDWAP allocates nearly 63 billion litres of water to the Central Plains Management Zone each year. This...

The Arid Lands Environment Centre welcomes this historic decision to declare buffel grass a weed across the Northern Territory. This has been a decades-long struggle to confront one of the greatest threats to the...

This Saturday 29th June 2024 9.30am - 3.30pm is a community event in Mparntwe Alice Springs, Name Arrwengkelthe ‘grass sickness’: How do we heal country and stop the spread of buffel grass? Arid Lands...

Today the Northern Territory Government has announced commitment to buffel grass management. Environmental organisations the Arid Lands Environment Centre and the Invasive Species Council welcome the explicit steps taken to improve the management of...

As Central Australia becomes smothered by highly invasive buffel grass, environmental campaigners and Aboriginal advocates met with the NT Environment Minister. The meeting on Monday 8th April 2024 continued calls for strong weed declaration...

Arid Lands Environment Centre will not appeal Singleton Supreme Court decision, but vows to fight on and stop Australia’s largest groundwater licence. On 31 January 2024, the NT Supreme Court upheld the decision of...

Environmental group vows to keep fighting after the NT Supreme Court rejects challenge to mammoth water licence for Singleton Station A major threat to water security, ecosystems and cultural heritage in one of the...

Mparntwe Alice Springs 13 December 2023 Environmentalists, water justice campaigners and a Central Land Council ranger met with the NT Environment Minister this morning calling for strong weed declaration on buffel grass and for...

Peak health organisations, firefighters call for buffel grass weed declaration Mparntwe Alice Springs 11 12 2023 Health services are expecting to be under further pressure as Central Australia faces its worst fire season in...

  15 November 2023 Mparntwe Alice Springs   Thirty-nine organisations from across Central Australia and nationally have signed an open letter calling on NT Minister for the Environment Kate Worden to declare buffel grass...