How Saving our Species works
The Saving our Species program provides the overarching framework for threatened species management in New South Wales. It aims to:
- minimise adverse effects of critical threats and key threatening processes on a threatened species or ecological community
- maximise the likelihood of securing the species population or viability of an ecological community in the wild for the next 100 years.
Under the program, conservation strategies are developed with expert advice to address the needs of all threatened species and ecological communities listed under the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.
A conservation strategy must be prepared within 2 years of a species or ecological community being listed as threatened (see NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee final determinations).
Each strategy is made available for public consultation and published in the Public Register of Saving our Species conservation strategies.
Although not required by legislation, the program also develops strategies to minimise the impacts of key threatening processes.
Read more:
- Saving our Species Framework
- NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee final determinations
- Public Register of Saving our Species conservation strategies
Search the public register for Saving our Species conservation strategies
The register enables the public to search for and view conservation strategies for listed New South Wales threatened species and ecological communities or key threatening processes. You may search using:
- species common name
- species scientific name
- location or other search terms (advanced search).
For tips to help you find what you are looking for, see our public register user guidance webpage.
Saving our Species reporting
The program captures more detailed information about the implementation of conservation strategies in our reporting and in the Saving our Species database.