Protect native species and ecosystems
The NSW Biodiversity Strategy helped link a range of existing government agency programs which protect native species and ecosystems across NSW, including:
- Threatened species programs (Department of Environment and Climate Change)
- Fisheries threatened species and freshwater species conservation programs (Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries)
- Acquisition and management of national parks and conservation reserves (Department of Environment and Climate Change)
- Native vegetation conservation and management (Department of Environment and Climate Change, formerly the responsibility of Department of Natural Resources
- Zoo conservation programs (Zoological Parks Board)
- Wetland and estuary management programs (Department of Environment and Climate Change and activities undertaken by the former Department of Natural Resources)
- Threatened species breeding programs to improve the breeding success and genetic management of small populations of marsupials, a partnership program involving universities, conservation agencies and zoo authorities, including the Zoological Parks Board of NSW and the Monash University Institute of Reproduction and Development.
Page last updated: 02 April 2008