South Western Slopes

South Western Slopes
New South Wales
South Western Slopes; New South Wales
	Emus in Weddin Mountains National Park
	The interim Australian bioregions,; with South Western Slopes in red
Area	86,811.26 km2 (33,518.0 sq mi)
LGA(s)	Snowy Monaro; Snowy Valleys;
State electorate(s)	Albury; Monaro; Wagga Wagga;
Federal division(s)	Eden-Monaro
	Localities around South Western Slopes:

The South Western Slopes, also known as the South West Slopes, is a region predominantly in New South Wales, Australia. It covers the lower inland slopes of the Great Dividing Range, extending from north of Dunedoo through central NSW and into north-east Victoria, meeting its south-western end around Beechworth. More than 90% of the region is in the state of New South Wales and it occupies about 10% of that state – more than 80,000 km².^[1]^[2]

^ NSW NPWS Map of bioregion (pdf) Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ R Thackway; I D Cresswell, eds. (2005). "New South Wales South West Slopes: from Description of IBRA Regions for Australia". An Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia: A Framework for Setting Priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program. Australian Nature Conservation Agency (On internet by Department of the Environment and Heritage). Archived from the original on 4 September 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2006.

[Bioregionmap-1] NSW NPWS Map of bioregion (pdf) Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine

[2] R Thackway; I D Cresswell, eds. (2005). "New South Wales South West Slopes: from Description of IBRA Regions for Australia". An Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia: A Framework for Setting Priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program. Australian Nature Conservation Agency (On internet by Department of the Environment and Heritage). Archived from the original on 4 September 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2006.

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