News from Local Land Services

With Christmas and the holiday season just around the corner, many of us will start thinking about the all-time favourite Christmas meal.

Migratory birds are returning from the Northern Hemisphere and south-east Asia to once again feed and roost on Towra Point Nature Reserve’s Spit Island as well as other areas within the reserve, which is managed by Greater Sydney Local Land Services.

Growing feral deer populations across NSW have prompted Local Land Services to highlight the safety and environmental risks to the community.

Western Local Land Services is set to undertake its spring aerial baiting program for the control of wild dogs.

Local Land Services is striving to offer the best advice and support for communities across NSW, and it wants to hear directly from landholders to ensure its services are hitting the mark now and into the future.

Local Land Services are advising sheep producers concerned about their flock's health to speak with an LLS District Veterinarian following confirmed cases of infertility in sheep in the Western region.

The Minns Labor Government has reasserted its commitment to strengthening the states resilience against biosecurity threats and welcomed the release of the Natural Resources Commission’s (NRC) final preliminary report into the ongoing biosecurity risks of introduced species.

The NSW Government today announced the easing of emergency zones in the Hawkesbury and around the ACT, as biosecurity clean up actions to eradicate high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H7N8 strain enter the final phase.

Goat producers and stakeholders in Western NSW now have access to new and exciting resources which will enable them to take their goat business and the industry to the next level. A 10-part podcast series and 2 video case studies, featuring Western NSW landholders, goat business owners, technical experts and more, are now available and in the process of being promoted far and wide.

Local Land Services graduate program is offering 10 positions for graduates to make a positive impact in the natural resource management, agriculture and veterinary science fields.