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The BC Act provides for the development of strategies to promote the conservation of threatened species and threatened ecological communities. The BC Act specifically requires the NSW Environment Agency Head to establish a Biodiversity Conservation Program delivering strategies, actions, monitoring and reporting to maximise the long-term security of threatened species and threatened ecological communities in nature, and to minimise the impacts of Key Threatening Processes on biodiversity and ecological integrity. In NSW, Saving our Species (SoS) is the adopted program that fulfills these requirements. This recovery plan has been developed to be consistent with the NSW SoS program; ongoing strategies and actions for the conservation of the Wollemi Pine under the SoS program will be informed by this plan.

The NSW NPW Act allows the NSW Minister for the Environment to declare any area of exceptional value within a national park as an Asset of Intergenerational Significance (AIS). A 5,000 hectare area of the catchment surrounding the wild Wollemi Pine population was declared as an AIS in 2021, recognising the area as important habitat for the Wollemi Pine. In accordance with the obligations of the National Parks and Wildlife Regulation 2019, a Conservation Action Plan (CAP) was developed in 2021 (NSW DPE 2022). NPWS has a statutory obligation to implement this CAP. The CAP identifies environmental values of the land, the key risks to those values, management activities to address and mitigate the risks, and requirements to measure and report on the condition of the AIS.