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 Riverina Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region there are currently 181 entities listed under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act
plus 14 species listed on the EPBC Act
.
Of the 181 NSW listings there are; 89 vulnerable species,
53 endangered species,
12 critically endangered species,
0 extinct species,
1 endangered population,
6 endangered ecological communities and
0 vulnerable ecological communities.
The Riverina Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region is also subject to
34 key threatening processes.
See all threatened species in this region