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 South Eastern Highlands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region there are currently 322 entities listed under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act
plus 22 species listed on the EPBC Act
.
Of the 322 NSW listings there are; 142 vulnerable species,
107 endangered species,
39 critically endangered species,
0 extinct species,
2 endangered population,
4 endangered ecological communities and
0 vulnerable ecological communities.
The South Eastern Highlands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region is also subject to
36 key threatening processes.
See all threatened species in this region