Draft Saving our Species conservation strategies
We deliver the Biodiversity Conservation Program under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. Our conservation strategies are developed for threatened species, ecological communities, and key threatening processes. Conservation strategies are used to inform threatened species management in New South Wales. Part 9 of the Biodiversity Conservation Act outlines provisions for public consultation on draft conservation strategies.
We have developed draft conservation strategies for newly listed threatened species and ecological communities, as well as updates to existing strategies. We consulted with key stakeholders, experts, external agencies, and department staff to ensure these strategies meet the objectives of the Saving our Species program.
Public consultation
Currently there are 16 draft Saving our Species conservation strategies available for public comment. Each draft strategy details the critical sites or priority areas, the critical threats, and the management actions to address those threats.
This public consultation period provides an important opportunity for members of the community to have a say in the management of threatened species in New South Wales.
- Alpine she-oak skink (Cyclodomorphus praealtus) [bird]
- Asterolasia rupestris subspecies recurva [shrub]
- Bertya mollissima [shrub]
- Blue-winged parrot (Neophema chrysostoma) [bird]
- Bonville leafless orchid (Danhatchia copelandii) [orchid]
- Caladenia amnicola [orchid]
- Genoplesium branwhiteorum [orchid]
- Long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) [marsupial]
- Mountain skink (Liopholis montana) [reptile]
- Prickly bush-pea (Pultenaea aristata) [shrub]
- Regent parrot (eastern subspecies) (Polytelis anthopeplus monarchoides) [bird]
- Southern whiteface (Aphelocephala leucopsis) [bird]
- Variable midge orchid (Genoplesium insigne) [orchid]
- Veronica lithophila [herbs and forbs]
- Wyong sun orchid (Thelymitra adorata) [orchid]
- Artesian Springs Ecological Community in the Great Artesian Basin [threatened ecological community]
View the draft Saving our Species strategies
Have your say
Have your say from 2 June 2025 to 27 June 2025.
There are 3 ways you can have your say, below.
- By online consultation: complete the draft Saving our Species conservation strategies form, below
- By email : [email protected]
- By post :Send your written submission to:
Draft Saving our Species conservation strategies, Threatened Species and Ecosystems Branch, NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Locked Bag 5022, Parramatta NSW 2124.
After consultation, we consider all public feedback and make any required amendments before the draft conservation strategies are approved and adopted.
Once the draft conservation strategies are adopted, they will be published on the Saving our Species strategies public register.
Submissions may be made publicly available unless otherwise advised.
Your privacy
Your comments on the draft Strategies may include personal information. The NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water complies with the NSW Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 which regulates the collection, storage, access, amendment, use and disclosure of personal information. See the privacy webpage for details. Information that in some way identifies you may be gathered when you use our website or send us correspondence.
If an application to access information under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 requests access to your submission, your views about the release will be sought if you have indicated that you object to your submission being made public.
Saving our Species draft conservation strategies feedback form
Completion of this feedback form counts as a formal submission.
Please view the relevant draft strategies you would like to comment on and provide your feedback in the form below.
Responses are required for all questions with an asterisk *.
To make your feedback count, please complete the survey and submit your response.