EXHIBIT 99.2

                    BION ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

      Bion Announces Approval of New Australian Patent for Low Oxygen
   Organic Waste Bioconversion for Livestock Waste Environmental Treatment

September 25, 2008.  New York, New York.  Bion Environmental Technologies,
Inc. (OTC BB: BNET) announced that notification was received today that its
patent application entitled, "Low Oxygen Organic Waste Bioconversion System"
has been granted by the Commonwealth of Australia Patent Office and given a
Standard Patent number of 2002227224.  The official filing date is approved
as November 8, 2001 and the patent will be in force until an expiration date
of November 8, 2021.

This patent now fully protects the core Bion process as applied in all Bion
Environmental Management System configurations in this important livestock
and dairy production country.  Bion's international intellectual property
protection currently includes issued patents in the key markets of Canada,
Mexico, New Zealand and now Australia.  In addition Bion has patents pending
in the entire European Union, Brazil, and Argentina.
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About Bion: Bion has provided solutions to the agriculture and livestock
industry since 1990, with 30 first-generation systems installed through 2003.
Bion's next-generation technology results from 18 years of research &
development, testing, commercial deployment, and further adaptation to
evolving standards and opportunities.  In addition to providing proven
comprehensive environmental treatment, the system recovers cellulosic biomass
from the waste stream to produce renewable energy in a process different and
much more efficient than others that seek to exploit this energy source.  The
technology is scalable, proven and quickly gaining acceptance by regulatory
agencies and other stakeholders as an effective solution to the environmental
issues associated with concentrated livestock waste.  For more information,
see Bion's website: www.biontech.com.

This material includes forward-looking statements based on management's
current reasonable business expectations. In this document, the word
'potential', 'will', 'proposed' and similar expressions identify certain
forward-looking statements. These statements are made in reliance on the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Section 27A of the Securities act
of 1933, as amended. There are numerous risks and uncertainties that could
result in actual results differing materially from expected outcomes.

Contact information:

Mark A. Smith                         Craig Scott
President                             Vice President-Capital Markets/IR
719-256-5329                          303-843-6191 direct
mas@biontech.com                      cscott@biontech.