- Street address:
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4 Parramatta Square
12 Darcy Street
PARRAMATTA NSW 2150 - Postal address:
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Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
Locked Bag 5022
Parramatta NSW 2124 - Phone:
- (02) 9585 6940
- Fax:
- (02) 9585 6606
More information
The NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee is established under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. It is an independent committee of scientists appointed by the Minister for the Environment.
The committee's main functions include:
- assessing the risk of extinction of a species in Australia and deciding which species should be listed as critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or extinct in NSW
- for species that are not listed as threatened species, deciding if there are populations of those species that should be listed as threatened in NSW
- assessing the risk of extinction of an ecological community in Australia and deciding which ecological communities should be listed as critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or collapsed ecological communities
- deciding which key threats to native plants and animals should be declared key threatening processes under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (BC Act)
- reviewing and updating the lists of threatened species, populations and communities and key threatening processes in the schedules of the BC Act.
Last updated: 29 August 2023