The repealed legislation and regulation have been replaced by the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 and the Biodiversity Conservation Regulation 2017.
The NSW Scientific Committee is now called the NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee.
Guidelines for interpreting listing criteria for species, populations and ecological communities
The Biodiversity Conservation Regulation includes criteria to guide listing decisions for threatened species and ecological communities under the Biodiversity Conservation Act. The NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee has prepared these guidelines to help with interpreting the concepts and terms in the listing criteria given in the Regulation.
The conservation value of regrowth native plant communities: a review
This 1998 report for the NSW Scientific Committee reviews the literature on the conservation value of regrowth native vegetation. It focuses on New South Wales but also considers literature from other regions of Australia and overseas.
The conservation value of regrowth native plant communities: a review (PDF 441KB).
Information guide
This guide includes information about the functions of NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee and how the committee operates. It also describes the type of information held by the committee that can be accessed under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009.
NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee Information Guide (PDF 274KB).
Advice and submissions
Submissions
The NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee may provide advice on matters relating to threatened species conservation and management:
- Submission on Biodiversity Certification: Draft Assessment Methodology (PDF 642KB)
- Submission on Draft Priority Action Statement Review Report (PDF 587KB)
- Submission on Biodiversity Banking and Offsets Scheme (PDF 127KB)
- Submission on the Draft Native Vegetation Regulation 2012 and draft Private Native Forestry Code of Practice (PDF 433KB)
- Submission on Review of the Native Vegetation Regulation: Private Native Forestry and Koalas Discussion paper (PDF 99KB).
Joint Management Agreements Advice
Under clause 2.25(11) of the Biodiversity Conservation Regulation 2017, the NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee must:
- conduct an annual review of the performance of all parties to a joint management agreement
- advise the Minister of any deficiencies in implementation of any joint management agreement by any party to it.
The committee's available advice on the NSW Shark Meshing (Bather Protection) Program Joint Management Agreement is available below:
- 2023–2024 NSW Scientific Committee advice
- 2022–2023 NSW Scientific Committee advice (PDF 241KB)
- 2021–2022 NSW Scientific Committee advice (PDF 181KB)
- 2017–2018 NSW Scientific Committee advice (PDF 489KB)
- 2016–2017 NSW Scientific Committee advice (PDF 871KB).
There are no records confirming the committee provided final advice for the years 2018-2019, 2019–2020 and 2020–2021 to the Minister. The committee and department have strengthened administrative arrangements to ensure all advice is published in future.