Recovery and threat abatement

The Department of Environment and Conservation has prepared a Priorities Action Statement (PAS) to promote the recovery of threatened species and the abatement of key threatening processes in New South Wales. See background information on the Priorities Action Statement.

The Priorities Action Statement identifies a number of broad strategies to help threatened plants and animals recover in New South Wales. Each of these strategies have more specific priority actions within them. They cover such things as:

• surveys to clarify the distribution of a species
• weed and pest management programs
• guidelines for threatened species issues in development assessments
• research into factors influencing the survival of threatened species
• community education programs to raise awareness of a species or threat in a particular area.

Find strategies for recovery and threat abatement

The PAS identifies 36 strategies. These are the main guiding tools for species recovery and threat abatement in NSW.

• Recovery strategies identify what is required to recover a threatened species.
• Threat abatement strategies tackle the key threatening processes that are putting so many species on the brink of extinction.

Find priority actions

For many threatened species and key threatening processes, detailed priority actions have been developed for recovery and threat abatement. We have given these actions a high, medium or low priority, and where possible have allocated them to a particular geographic region. You can:

1. Search for priority actions
2. Find priority actions for a particular type of species or key threatening process.
3. Find priority actions for a particular geographic region:
   • Catchment management authority regions
   • Local government areas