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The Willandra Lakes Region in south-western New South Wales has been inhabited by Aboriginal people for at least 50,000 years. It contains what is probably the world’s oldest known cremation site.

The National Heritage List contains heritage places of outstanding significance to the nation. We manage 9 places that are included on this list.

We work to protect our native animals and their habitats. Learn more about some of our unique and unusual native species.

Native animals are protected by the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.

Learn about some well-known and not so well-known NSW native animals.

The Australian brush turkey belongs to the family of birds known as megapodes because of their large feet. They construct large mounds of rotting vegetation to incubate their eggs.

Ever been swooped by a magpie in spring? It's only defending its family during the nesting season.

Often confused with rodents, bandicoots are small, omnivorous marsupials.

Bowerbirds are very closely related to birds of paradise, and species of bowerbird are found in many parts of Australia and New Guinea.

Echidnas, together with the platypus, are the world's only monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.