DBCA’s nine regions have responsibility for on-ground delivery of biodiversity conservation with a focus on department-managed land. The department also liaises, provides advice and undertakes some management activities on other lands, particularly where these relate to Ramsar wetlands, and threatened and Priority species and ecological communities.

Regional conservation plans for each of the nine regions were developed using transparent and repeatable structured decision-support processes to identify and prioritise conservation actions for:

• landscape-scale threat mitigation in priority reserves and landscapes
• addressing specific threats to threatened and Priority species and ecological communities
• addressing information requirements to support the management of threatened and Priority species and ecological communities.

Regional conservation plans are structured to demonstrate how regional conservation actions contribute to achieving delivery of the department’s overarching conservation strategies as outlined in the Biodiversity Conservation Framework. 

Regional conservation plans are comprised of the Regional Conservation Planning Approach document that outlines the approach taken to develop the regional conservation plans, as well as the outputs from the prioritisation processes in each of the nine regional conservation plans.

A suite of detailed outputs from the regional conservation planning process have informed the priorities outlined in this plan and include elicitation outputs, benefit-cost analyses, risk assessment and value of information analyses.

These outputs and supporting documentation may be updated over time as new information becomes available to inform the priority of actions delivered through regional works programs.