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We are ensuring a sustainable New South Wales through climate change and energy action, water management, and environment and heritage conservation and protection.

Learn about the framework for the conservation of biodiversity in New South Wales.

The NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee is established under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. It is an independent committee of scientists appointed by the Minister for the Environment.

The NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee uses the Common Assessment Method and the listing criteria in the Biodiversity Conservation Regulation 2017 to determine if a species, population or ecological community is eligible for listing.

Nominating a species, population or ecological community as threatened, or nominating a key threatening process is the first step in the process for listing in the Schedules of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.

Preliminary Determinations are placed on public exhibition to encourage comment and to attract additional information relevant to the assessment.

Anyone can nominate a species, population, ecological community or key threatening process to be listed or delisted from the Schedules of the Act. The main steps in the process are nomination, assessment, public exhibition and listing.

Between 2007 and 2009, the NSW Scientific Committee undertook a systematic review of the conservation status of a selection of plant and animal species listed under the Threatened Species Conservation Act.

The NSW Government is delivering on its commitment to provide additional support to wildlife hospitals, koala protection and research with more than $3.5 million in new funding provided to 3 regional wildlife-care facilities.

A selection of NSW animal species was assessed between 2007 and 2009 as part of a systematic review of the schedules of the Threatened Species Conservation Act.