Growth Centres Biodiversity Offset Program annual report 2013-14

Abstract

The Growth Centres Biodiversity Offset Program (the program) enables Sydney’s future housing needs to be met without compromising the balance of the social, economic and environmental values of western Sydney. The program is an innovative solution in an area of major land use change and population growth. In the six years that the program has been operating (2008–09 to 2013–14) it has protected 453 hectares of native vegetation at eight sites across western Sydney. In accordance with the program’s aims, the protected areas are some of the largest areas of bushland with high conservation values left in the region.