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 Sydney Basin Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region there are currently 549 entities listed under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act
plus 49 species listed on the EPBC Act
.
Of the 549 NSW listings there are; 216 vulnerable species,
149 endangered species,
38 critically endangered species,
0 extinct species,
31 endangered population,
45 endangered ecological communities and
4 vulnerable ecological communities.
The Sydney Basin Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region is also subject to
38 key threatening processes.
See all threatened species in this region