This Sunday, 31 July is National Tree Day. With around 300,000 people around the country involved, it is Australia’s largest community tree planting and nature care event.

Blue Mountains City Council is devastated, but not surprised, by the facts revealed in the recently released Australia State of the Environment (SoE) 2021. 

Blue Mountains Mayor, Councillor Mark Greenhill has supported his Wollondilly counterpart, Mayor Matt Gould, in calling for sensible discussion around flood mitigation, following the most recent natural disaster.

Council is planting hundreds of trees across three locations in the lower Blue Mountains to combat increased temperatures associated with loss of tree canopy cover.

Blue Mountains Bushland Nursery Incentive is Council’s free accreditation scheme to prevent the sale of invasive priority weeds within our Local Government Area and is supported by the Nursery & Garden Industry NSW & ACT.

Council has extended its commitment to a sustainable Blue Mountains with a new electric vehicle (EV) charging station planned for Lawson.

Blue Mountains residents can now access Climate Action Now yard signs, by contacting a Blue Mountains City Councillor. The following Councillors have nominated to distribute Climate Action Now signs:

Most Blue Mountains City Council bushland reserves and associated walking track networks and outdoor recreation areas are now open and available for use. 

The sustained and excessive wet period has resulted in Iron bacteria blooms appearing in several areas across the Blue Mountains.

World Health Day is a global, annual initiative which is spearheaded by the World Health Organisation. This year’s event will occur on Thursday, 7 April 2022 and its theme is ‘Our Planet, Our Health’.