NTSI - National Threatened Species Institute

Objects of the Institute
The objects of the Institute shall be to restore and/or enhance the natural biodiversity of Australia through:
a)	researching and refining captive propagation and related husbandry techniques necessary to establish secure and genetically robust captive 'insurance' populations of selected threatened species;
b)	collaborating with relevant Commonwealth, State and Territory conservation and land management agencies and, where appropriate, private land-owners to select potential areas of suitable habitat and provide disease-free specimens for re-introduction and/or trans-location programs;
c)	coordination, where appropriate, with the activities of other public and private initiatives involved in promoting conservation management of threatened native Australian fauna and flora; and
d)	promoting the activities and achievements of the Institute among the private sector in order to solicit operational funds from suitable donors;