Current biodiversity credit demand

The following lists and map are designed to help landholders understand if they could create in-demand biodiversity credits.

The Credits Supply Taskforce (Taskforce) is seeking to work with landholders in areas of New South Wales with significant current or upcoming demand for biodiversity credits. 

You can search for your address on our In-demand Credits Map to check if your property is within one of these areas.

In-demand Credits Map

The In-demand Credits Map shows the potential location of in-demand Offset Trading Groups (OTGs) in IBRA subregions with high demand for biodiversity credits. Demand for Threatened Ecological Communities (TECs) and species credits are not currently included on this map. The high demand subregions and credits, including TECs and species, are listed below.

You can also submit a Stewardship Expression of Interest and the Taskforce will provide you with advice on whether your property may be able to create the types of biodiversity credits needed, in which case the Taskforce may also offer you a biodiversity assessment at no up-front cost.

  • Barnato Downs
  • Barrier Range Outwash
  • Barrington
  • Bathurst
  • Bogan-Macquarie
  • Bondo
  • Boorindal Plains
  • Braemer
  • Burragorang
  • Canbelego Downs
  • Capertee Uplands
  • Capertee Valley
  • Castlereagh-Barwon
  • Comboyne Plateau
  • Crookwell
  • Culgoa-Bokhara
  • Cumberland
  • Darling Depression
  • Ellerston
  • Great Darling Anabranch
  • Highlands-Northern Fall
  • Hill End
  • Hunter
  • Inland Slopes
  • Inverell Basalts
  • Kaputar
  • Karuah Manning
  • Kerrabee
  • Lachlan
  • Lachlan Plains
  • Liverpool Plains
  • Liverpool Range
  • Louth Plains
  • Lower Slopes
  • Macleay Hastings
  • Menindee
  • Moonie-Barwon Interfluve
  • Moonie-Commoron Floodout
  • Mummel Escarpment
  • Murray Fans
  • Murray Scroll Belt
  • Murrumbateman
  • Murrumbidgee
  • Nandewar Northern Complex
  • Narrandool
  • Nebine Plains
  • Northern Basalts
  • Northern Outwash
  • Nymagee
  • Oberon
  • Orange
  • Peel
  • Pilliga
  • Pilliga Outwash
  • Pittwater
  • Pooncarie-Darling
  • Robinvale Plain
  • South Olary Plain
  • Talbragar Valley
  • Tomalla
  • Upper Hunter
  • Victorian Riverina
  • Walcha Plateau
  • Warrambool-Moonie
  • Wilcannia Plains
  • Wollemi
  • Wyong
  • Yengo

In the subregions above, the following ecosystem credits are currently in demand.

Offset Trading Groups in higher clearing classes that can be used to meet an offset obligation for credits of a lower clearing class are indicated with an asterisk (*).

 

Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands greater than or equal to 90%

Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests less than 50%
*Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 90%

Coastal Freshwater Lagoons greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Coastal Freshwater Lagoons greater than or equal to 90% 

Coastal Swamp Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Coastal Swamp Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Coastal Swamp Forests greater than or equal to 90%

Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands greater than or equal to 90%

Eastern Riverine Forests less than 50%
Eastern Riverine Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Eastern Riverine Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Eastern Riverine Forests greater than or equal to 90%

Floodplain Transition Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Floodplain Transition Woodlands greater than or equal to 90%

Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%

Inland Floodplain Shrublands greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Inland Floodplain Shrublands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%

Inland Floodplain Swamps less than 50%
Inland Floodplain Swamps greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
Inland Floodplain Swamps greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Inland Floodplain Swamps greater than or equal to 90% 

Inland Riverine Forests less than 50%
Inland Riverine Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
Inland Riverine Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Inland Riverine Forests greater than or equal to 90%

Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands less than 50%
Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%

New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests less than 50%
*New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90% 

New England Grassy Woodlands less than 50%
New England Grassy Woodlands greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*New England Grassy Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*New England Grassy Woodlands greater than or equal to 90%

North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests less than 50%
North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 90%

North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%

North-west Floodplain Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%

Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests less than 50%
Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%

Riverine Chenopod Shrublands less than 50%
Riverine Chenopod Shrublands greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Riverine Chenopod Shrublands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Riverine Chenopod Shrublands greater than or equal to 90% 

Riverine Plain Grasslands greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Riverine Plain Grasslands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%

Riverine Plain Woodlands greater than or equal to 90%

Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70% 

Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%

South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests less than 50%
*South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 90%

South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests less than 50%
*South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 90%

Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 90%

Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands greater than or equal to 90% 

Subalpine Woodlands less than 50%
*Subalpine Woodlands greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Subalpine Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Subalpine Woodlands greater than or equal to 90%

Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands less than 50%
*Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%

Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests less than 50%
*Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 90%

Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests less than 50% 

Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 90% 

Western Peneplain Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%

Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests less than 50%
Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
*Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests greater than or equal to 90% 

Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands less than 50%
Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands greater than or equal to 50% and less than 70%
*Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands greater than or equal to 70% and less than 90%
Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands greater than or equal to 90%

 

In the subregions above, the following ecosystem credits are currently in demand.

 

Acacia melvillei Shrubland in the Riverina and Murray-Darling Depression bioregions

Allocasuarina luehmannii Woodland in the Riverina and Murray–Darling Depression Bioregions

Brigalow within the Brigalow Belt South, Nandewar and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregions

Carbeen Open Forest Community in the Darling Riverine Plains and Brigalow Belt South Bioregions

Fuzzy Box Woodland on alluvial Soils of the South Western Slopes, Darling Riverine Plains and Brigalow Belt South Bioregions

Inland Grey Box Woodland in the Riverina, NSW South Western Slopes, Cobar Peneplain, Nandewar and Brigalow Belt South Bioregions

Kurri Sand Swamp Woodland in the Sydney Basin Bioregion

Lower Hunter Spotted Gum Ironbark Forest in the Sydney Basin and NSW North Coast Bioregions

Myall Woodland in the Darling Riverine Plains, Brigalow Belt South, Cobar Peneplain, Murray-Darling Depression, Riverina and NSW South Western Slopes bioregions

Semi-evergreen vine thickets of the Brigalow Belt South and Nandewar Bioregions

Swamp Sclerophyll Forest on Coastal Floodplains of the New South Wales North Coast, Sydney Basin and South East Corner Bioregions

White Box – Yellow Box – Blakely’s Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Derived Native Grassland in the NSW North Coast, New England Tableland, Nandewar, Brigalow Belt South, Sydney Basin, South Eastern Highlands, NSW South Western Slopes, South East Corner and Riverina Bioregions

Species credits can be created anywhere the species is located. The following species credits are currently in demand:

Flora species

Scientific name

Common name

Acacia acanthoclada

Harrow wattle

Acacia ausfeldii

Ausfeld's wattle

Atriplex sturtii

A saltbush

Austrostipa wakoolica

A spear-grass

Bertya opponens

Coolabah bertya

Brachyscome muelleroides

Claypan daisy

Brachyscome papillosa

Mossgiel daisy

Caladenia arenaria

Sand-hill spider orchid

Calotis moorei

A burr-daisy

Commersonia procumbens

Commersonia procumbens

Convolvulus tedmoorei

Bindweed

Corymbia maculata

Spotted gum

Cryptostylis hunteriana

Leafless tongue orchid

Cullen parvum

Small scurf-pea

Cymbidium canaliculatum

Tiger orchid

Cynanchum elegans

White-flowered wax plant

Cyperus conicus

Cyperus conicus

Desmodium campylocaulon

Creeping tick-trefoil

Dichanthium setosum

Bluegrass

Digitaria porrecta

Finger panic grass

Diuris tricolor

Pine donkey orchid

Eucalyptus conica

Fuzzy box

Hibbertia puberula

Hibbertia puberula

Homopholis belsonii

Belson's panic

Homoranthus darwinioides

Fairy bells

Indigofera efoliata

Leafless indigo

Lasiopetalum behrii 

Pink velvet bush

Lepidium aschersonii

Spiny peppercress

Lepidium monoplocoides

 Winged peppercress

Leptorhynchos orientalis

Lanky buttons

Leptorhynchos waitzia

Button immortelle

Maireana cheelii 

Chariot wheels

Monotaxis macrophylla

Large-leafed monotaxis

Pilularia novae-hollandiae

Austral pillwort

Pimelea serpyllifolia subsp. serpyllifolia

Thyme rice-flower

Pimelea spicata

Spiked rice-flower

Platyzoma microphyllum

Braid fern

Polygala linariifolia

Native milkwort

Pomaderris queenslandica

Scant pomaderris

Prasophyllum petilum

Tarengo leek orchid

Prasophyllum sp. Wybong

Prasophyllum sp. Wybong

Pterostylis cobarensis

Greenhood orchid

Ranunculus anemoneus

Anemone buttercup

Santalum murrayanum

Bitter quandong

Swainsona colutoides

Bladder senna

Swainsona murrayana

Slender darling pea

Swainsona pyrophila

Yellow swainson-pea

Swainsona sericea

Silky swainson-pea

Tylophora linearis

Tylophora linearis

Zieria ingramii

Keith's zieria

Fauna species

Scientific name

Common name

Aepyprymnus rufescens

Rufous bettong

Aprasia parapulchella

Pink-tailed legless lizard

Botaurus poiciloptilus

Australasian bittern

Burhinus grallarius

Bush stone-curlew

Callocephalon fimbriatum

Gang-gang cockatoo

Calyptorhynchus banksii samueli

Red-tailed black-cockatoo (inland subspecies)

Calyptorhynchus lathami

Glossy black-cockatoo

Cercartetus nanus

Eastern pygmy-possum

Chalinolobus dwyeri

Large-eared pied bat

Crinia sloanei

Sloane's froglet

Crinia tinnula

Wallum froglet

Cyclodomorphus praealtus

Alpine she-oak skink

Delma impar

Striped legless lizard

Grus rubicunda

Brolga

Haliaeetus leucogaster

White-bellied sea-eagle

Hamirostra melanosternon

Black-breasted buzzard

Hieraaetus morphnoides

Little eagle

Hoplocephalus bitorquatus

Hoplocephalus bitorquatus

Hoplocephalus stephensii

Stephens' banded snake

Lathamus discolor

Swift parrot

Litoria aurea

Green and golden bell frog

Lophochroa leadbeateri

Major Mitchell's cockatoo

Lophoictinia isura

Square-tailed kite

Mastacomys fuscus

Broad-toothed rat

Myotis macropus

Southern myotis

Ninox connivens

Barking owl

Petauroides volans

Greater glider

Petaurus norfolcensis

Squirrel glider

Petrogale penicillata

Brush-tailed rock-wallaby

Phascolarctos cinereus

Koala

Polytelis anthopeplus monarchoides

Regent parrot (eastern subspecies)

Polytelis swainsonii

Superb parrot

Pteropus poliocephalus

Grey-headed flying-fox

Setirostris eleryi

Bristle-faced free-tailed bat

Synemon plana

Golden sun moth

Tyto novaehollandiae

Masked owl

Vespadelus troughtoni

Eastern cave bat