Rapid Creek Land Care group dismayed by land clearing in Berrimah

ABC The Northern Territory Lands Department is investigating the clearing of this site in Berrimah.

A Darwin-based environmental group has called on the Northern Territory Government to prosecute a company that has cleared four hectares of forest.

Leslie Alford from the Rapid Creek Land Care group says the Lands Department has ordered a stop to the illegal clearing.

The land is on the corner of Amy Johnson Avenue and Boulter Road in Berrimah.

The department says an application is required prior to the clearing of any land on the site.

It says no application has been received to date.

Ms Alford says the Government has to prosecute to deter similar action in the future.

She says it also needs to order rehabilitation of the site.

"It was a 100 per cent bushland, part of it wetland, part of it transitional communities and part of it woodland," she said.

"But it was a beautiful block."

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Rapid Creek Land Care group dismayed by land clearing in Berrimah