Exciting news! This Summer, anyone who returns bottles and drink containers through the NSW Return & Earn scheme can choose to donate the proceeds to the  Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife. Most drinks containers between 150ml and three litres are eligible for a refund.  

A lucky group of FNPW supporters were recently given a tour of Sydney Harbour National Park at Middle Head by Rangers from the NSW Parks & Wildlife Service. The Middle Head forts complex covers 150 years of NSW military history and contains one of the oldest surviving colonial fortifications, featuring observation points, search lights, gun emplacements and other defensive structures.  

Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife and NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service would like to thank employees from LENDLEASE for participating in a Corporate Volunteer Day, held at Sydney Harbour National Park, Middle Head on 13 September 2018. 

Sea Turtles confuse floating plastic bags with jellyfish - their favourite food. Turtles, Seals, Whales, Dolphins and Dugongs allget hopelessly entangled in floating nets discarded by commercial fishing operations. Once trapped within their deadly grasp, they can drift for days before slowly drowning.
 

A team of Australian and international scientists, led by Professor Rebecca Johnson, Director of the Australian Museum Research Institute and Professor Katherine Belov, University of Sydney, have made a significant break-through successfully sequencing the full koala genome. Considered to be the most complete marsupial genome sequenced to date, it is in terms of quality, on par with the human genome.