Iconic species strategy
Saving our Species
Iconic species are important to us socially, culturally and economically.
Publisher: Office of Environment and Heritage
Cost: Free
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-76039-894-1
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ID: OEH20170447
File: PDF 3.38 MB / Pages 14
Name: iconic-species-strategy-170447.pdf
This document outlines how NSW Government’s Saving our Species (SoS) program creates the conservation strategies for ensuring the survival of iconic species.
There are six SoS iconic species: brush tailed rock wallaby, koala, southern corroboree frog, malleefowl, Wollemi pine and plains-wanderer.
The SoS program provides a framework for prioritising investment in threatened species and ecological communities in NSW, based on a cost-benefit approach. The program has categorised six threatened species as iconic species because of their inherent social values and ecological attributes.