Australia Endangered Animals List
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Australia endangered animals list. According to the iucn red list of endangered species 86 of australias animal species are considered critically endangered 1. The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high risk of global extinction. The list is announced by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 EPBC Act.
Learn more about the species we are working to protecting from becoming endangered or extinct. 1 kg in weight and 867 in 22 cm in body length it is one of the worlds largest frog species. More than 84 of Australias mammals inshore fish and flowering plants can only be found in Australia.
Endangered Animals Abbotts Booby. Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest 505 Temperate grasslands 465 Montane grasslands and shrublands 177 Tropical savanna 478 Mediterranean forests woodlands and scrub 257 Desert and Xeric Shrublands 363 Flooded grasslands and savannas 81 Lakes 204. However there still are many species and subspecies of mammals birds reptiles fish and frogs which face the danger of being extinct.
The chart below includes all the animals currently listed under the ESA. The study published in the journal of Ecology and Evolution was released on Thursday in an effort to kickstart emergency conservation efforts. But in the 200 years since Europeans settled on the land human activity and natural disasters have led more mammals to become extinct in Australia than in any other country.
Regionally WWF-Australia has been supporting species conservation work on tigers orangutans elephants rhinos and snow leopards. List of Endangered Australian Animals Antechinus Bandicoot Bilby Greater Bilby Blob Fish Cassowary Corroboree Frog Dingo Dugong Giant Clam Potoroo Gilberts Potoroo Gouldian Finch Great Barrier Reef Bilby Greater Bilby Koala Leadbeater Possum Night Parrot Quoll Northern Quoll Numbat Snapping Turtle Swift Parrot Tasmanian Devil Tree Kangaroo Wallaby Wombat Woylie. Endangered means a species is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.
Australia Cook Islands New Caledonia New Zealand Niue. These highly threatened animals are the focus of concerted WWF global campaigns and strategies. Bettongia penicillata burramys.