Of the 2,362 species* of native plants in the GBMWHA 400 are protected, and of these 49 are classed as endangered and 59 are vulnerable.
[* - species in this case includes subspecies and varieties.]
What is a threatened species?
This is covered by the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 which is administered by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment.
The GBMWHA Native Flora list of threatened species contains status codes for each species; some species have multiple codes.
Protected. While all animals and plants classed as threatened species under the Act are protected, several non-threatened species are also protected. An example of this is the Waratah (Telopea speciosissima).
Protected species are not to be disturbed.
Other examples are all orchids native to NSW and flannel flowers (except the Lesser Flannel Flower (Actinotus minor)).
Endangered or Vulnerable. Threatened species that appear on our list use one of the following codes -
‘denatured’ means its location is obfuscated or generalised.
An example of Sensitive Species Class 1 is the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) which I have added to the GBMWHA Native Flora list as it didn't come up in the PlantNet's list of Wollemi National Park species.
There may be other species who are also not in the GBMWHA Native Flora list due to their locations being withheld. I for one have no issue with this.
Vulnerable and endangered ecological communities is, at present, outside the scope of this analysis.
Commonwealth Government threatened species falls under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).
While the NSW and Commonwealth's threatened species determinations are mostly in agreement, species may be significantly rarer, or even extinct, in NSW but found in other states, and therefore are deemed not to be a Commonwealth threatened species.