The EPBC Act provides a legal framework to protect and manage nationally and internationally important flora, fauna, ecological communities and heritage places—defined in the EPBC Act as matters of national environmental significance
In the NSW South Western Slopes Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region there are currently 192 entities listed under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act
plus 16 species listed on the EPBC Act
.
Of the 192 NSW listings there are; 100 vulnerable species,
56 endangered species,
8 critically endangered species,
0 extinct species,
2 endangered population,
6 endangered ecological communities and
0 vulnerable ecological communities.
The NSW South Western Slopes Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region is also subject to
35 key threatening processes.
See all threatened species in this region