September every year has been nominated (by the Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts) to celebrate and promote the importance of protecting, conserving and improving biodiversity, that is, the variety of all living things.

As part of Biodiversity Month, September 7 each year has been nominated as National Threatened Species Day to encourage the community to help conserve Australia's native fauna and flora.

Did you know…

National Threatened Species Day was first held in 1996, to commemorate the death of the last Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) in captivity in 1936 in Hobart.