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 495 entities listed under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act
plus 15 species listed on the EPBC Act
.
Of the 495 NSW listings there are; 215 vulnerable species,
133 endangered species,
30 critically endangered species,
0 extinct species,
35 endangered population,
50 endangered ecological communities and
4 vulnerable ecological communities.
The Sydney Basin Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region is also subject to
35 key threatening processes.
See all threatened species in this region