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 314 entities listed under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act
plus 26 species listed on the EPBC Act
.
Of the 314 NSW listings there are; 142 vulnerable species,
103 endangered species,
31 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