Banksia Environmental Foundation

	Prime Minister's Environmentalist of the Year Award and Environment
	Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award Partner

The Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts aims to protect and sustain our unique and diverse environment.

In partnership with governments, industry, the community and individual Australians it develops and implements the Government’s policies and programs to care for, manage and value Australia’s natural environment and the resources it provides, now and into the future.

The department has proudly sponsored the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year award since 2001 and awarded the inaugural Environment Minister’s Young Environmentalist of the Year in 2008. These awards recognise the outstanding contributions that Australians of all ages and in all walks of life have made to our environment, and the example they continue to set for us all.

Learn more about how the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts is working to protect and conserve Australia's environment and heritage

Latest Environmental News from the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

• Christmas Island mining extension rejected (July 2010)
• Melbourne grows with environmental tick of approval (July 2010)
• Helping to save the Tassie devil from extinction made tax deductible (June 2010)
• Further $8 million Community Action Grants for community groups (June 2010)
• Non-lethal whale research reaps rewards (June 2010)
• Traditional Owners and Indigenous Communities to protect Reef (June 2010)
• Minister marks 2010 National Whale Day (June 2010)
• World famous bird habitat protected forever (May 2010)