Saving our Species: NSW Threatened Species Management Sites

New South Wales on-ground management sites for threatened species and ecological communities, maintained by the Saving our Species program. Sites are classified as priority or contributing and are updated on an ongoing basis, with sensitive locations denatured to Local Government Area extent. The dataset is published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Mapping conservation effort distribution based on the geospatial location of management sites.
• Prioritizing resource allocation based on the classification of sites as priority or contributing.
• Analyzing spatial overlap of management sites with other land-use or environmental datasets.
• Monitoring updates to site boundaries and status based on the ongoing maintenance described.

Strengths

• Spatial geometry is maintained and updated on an ongoing basis.
• Sites are classified by experts as either priority or contributing based on conservation impact.
• Publicly available data respects sensitive species policies by denaturing certain sites.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2026-05-12 16:47:20.255651; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Collection Method

Identified by species or ecological community experts, maintained via the SoS Database.

Freshness

Updated on an ongoing basis; last metadata update was 2026-05-12.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia