Category: Flora

Original text by Jamie Slaven, revised and updated by Dr Steven Douglas in 2023 

Berowra Valley National Park is valuable for recreation, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal cultural heritage and for the large variety of indigenous plants and animals it contains. It is home to many plants (flora) and animals (fauna) listed as threatened species under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW) and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act, Commonwealth). A species of flora or fauna is defined as threatened if it is facing possible extinction in the short or medium term. Both NSW and Commonwealth laws classify such species into three categories. These are: 

• Critically Endangered – considered to be facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. 

• Endangered – considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild. 

• Vulnerable species – considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.  

Both laws also list threatened ecological communities. The Biodiversity Conservation Act also lists Endangered Populations, all of which are currently legacy listings from the earlier Threatened Species Conservation Act (1995).  

Original text by Jamie Slaven, revised and updated by Dr Steven Douglas in 2023 

Berowra Valley National Park is home to some several rare and threatened native plant taxa, some of which have very restricted areas of occurrence. None are endemic (confined to) the National Park, but some do not extend far beyond it.