Nature conservation

Threatened species

Priority actions by type of key threatening process

The Department of Environment and Conservation has prepared a Priorities Action Statement (PAS) to promote the recovery of threatened species and the abatement of key threatening processes in New South Wales.

The Priorities Action Statement identifies a number of broad strategies to help threatened plants and animals recover in New South Wales. Each of these strategies have more specific priority actions within them.

Select an item from the list below to see priority actions for all species of that type.

Please note that priority actions have not yet been identified for some species and key threatening processes.

Key Threatening Processes

There are 825 current priority actions focused mainly on the abatement of threatening processes. These priority actions apply to 35 threatening processes, which are listed below.
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Action title Scientific name   Common name Type of species Priority
Name of threatening process Type of threatening process Number of actions
Infection by Psittacine circoviral (beak and feather) disease affecting endangered psittacine species Disease 9  
Infection of frogs by amphibian chytrid causing the disease chytridiomycosis Disease 24  
Infection of native plants by Phytophthora cinnamomi Disease 29  
Alteration to the natural flow regimes of rivers, streams, floodplains & wetlands. Habitat Loss/Change 13  
Bushrock Removal Habitat Loss/Change 14  
Clearing of native vegetation Habitat Loss/Change 21  
Alteration of habitat following subsidence due to longwall mining Habitat Loss/Change 5  
Ecological consequences of high frequency fires Habitat Loss/Change 8  
Human-caused Climate Change Habitat Loss/Change 12  
Loss and/or degradation of sites used for hill-topping by butterflies Habitat Loss/Change 9  
Loss of Hollow-bearing Trees Habitat Loss/Change 6  
Removal of dead wood and dead trees Habitat Loss/Change 10  
Death or injury to marine species following capture in shark control programs on ocean beaches Other Threat 4  
Entanglement in, or injestion of anthropogenic debris in marine and esturine environments Other Threat 7  
Forest eucalypt dieback associated with over-abundant psyllids and Bell Miners Other Threat 0
Competition and grazing by the feral European rabbit Pest Animal 11  
Competition and habitat degradation by Feral Goats, Capra hircus Linnaeus 1758 Pest Animal 12  
Competition from feral honeybees Pest Animal 4  
Herbivory and environmental degradation caused by feral deer Pest Animal 12  
Importation of red imported fire ants into NSW Pest Animal 6  
Introduction of the large earth bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) Pest Animal 4  
Invasion and establishment of the Cane Toad Pest Animal 8  
Invasion of the yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) into NSW Pest Animal 6  
Predation and hybridisation by Feral Dogs, Canis lupus familiaris Pest Animal 0
Predation by feral cats Pest Animal 11  
Predation by the European Red Fox Pest Animal 139  
Predation by the Plague Minnow (Gambusia holbrooki) Pest Animal 13  
Predation by the Ship Rat (Rattus rattus) on Lord Howe Island Pest Animal 10  
Predation, habitat degradation, competition and disease transmission by Feral Pigs (Sus scrofa ) Pest Animal 11  
Invasion and establishment of exotic vines and scramblers Weed 8  
Invasion and establishment of Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius) Weed 0
Invasion of native plant communities by bitou bush & boneseed Weed 375  
Invasion of native plant communities by exotic perennial grasses Weed 12  
Invasion of native plant communities by African Olive Olea europaea L. subsp. cuspidata (Wall ex G. Don Cirferri) Weed 0
Invasion, establishment and spread of Lantana (Lantana camara L. sens. lat) Weed 12