Protect native species and ecosystems

The NSW Biodiversity Strategy helped link a range of existing government agency programs which protect native species and ecosystems across NSW, including:

• Threatened species programs (Office of Environment and Heritage)
• Fisheries threatened species and freshwater species conservation programs (Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries)
• Acquisition and management of national parks and conservation reserves (Office of Environment and Heritage)
• Native vegetation conservation and management (Department of Environment and Climate Change, formerly the responsibility of Department of Natural Resources
• Zoo conservation programs (Zoological Parks Board)
• Wetland and estuary management programs (Office of Environment and Heritage and activities undertaken by the former Department of Natural Resources)
• Threatened species breeding programs to improve the breeding success and genetic management of small populations of marsupials, a partnership program involving universities, conservation agencies and zoo authorities, including the Zoological Parks Board of NSW and the Monash University Institute of Reproduction and Development.