Biodiversity is vital in supporting human life on Earth.
It provides many benefits, including all our food, many medicines and industrial products, and it supplies clean air and water, and fertile soils. Australia is home to more than one million species of plants and animals, many of which are unique. But over the past 200 years, the Australian environment has been modified dramatically. Conserving the biodiversity of NSW is a major challenge. The NSW Government's Biodiversity Strategy sets out a plan of action to achieve this.