The key pieces of legislation that identify and protect threatened species, populations and ecological communities in NSW is the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 and its regulations.
The new Act began on 25 August 2017 and replaces the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995.
The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water administers the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act.
The Department of Primary Industries is responsible for protecting threatened fish and marine vegetation.
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The NSW Government is investing $100 million over five years in saving more threatened animals and plants from extinction. The funds are allocated from 2016 to 2021 to Saving our Species, NSW’s leading threatened species conservation program.
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