Listing of Threatened Species, Ecological Communities and Threatening Processes

A species or ecological community is threatened if it is likely to become extinct in the foreseeable future. A process is threatening if it has the potential to threaten the survival of a species or community in the ACT region.

The Nature Conservation Act 1980 ( 877Kb ) establishes a formal process for the identification and protection of threatened species and ecological communities.

It requires the Flora and Fauna Committee to advise the Minister of native species and ecological communities that are threatened in the ACT and ecologically significant threatening processes and recommend that they be declared accordingly. A species may be declared as vulnerable or endangered, as an indication of the degree of threat to its continued existence. An ecological community may be declared as endangered, a process may be declared as threatening. Declaration is formal recognition of a conservation threat.

The Conservator of Flora and Fauna is required to prepare a management response to each declaration by way of a conservation Action Plan . A draft of each Action Plan must be released for public comment. A summary of each completed Action Plan is available as a Threatened Species Information Sheet.

The following species and ecological communities have been declared in accordance with the provisions of the Nature Conservation Act. No threatening processes have been declared to date.

Common name	Scientific name	Declared status
A leek orchid	Prasophyllum petilum	endangered
A subalpine herb	Gentiana baeuerlenii	endangered
Brindabella Midge Orchid	Corunastylis ectopa	endangered
Brown Treecreeper	Climacteris picumnus	vulnerable
Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby	Petrogale penicillata	endangered
Button Wrinklewort	Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides	endangered
Canberra Spider Orchid	Arachnorchis actensis	endangered
Grassland Earless Dragon	Tympanocryptis pinguicolla	endangered
Ginniderra Peppercress	Lepidium ginninderrense	endangered
Golden Sun Moth	Synemon plana	endangered
Hooded Robin	Melanodryas cucullata	vulnerable
Little Eagle	Hieraaetus morphnoides	vulnerable
Macquarie Perch	Macquaria australasica	endangered
Murray River Crayfish	Euastacus armatus	vulnerable
Natural Temperate Grassland	An ecological community	endangered
Northern Corroboree Frog	Pseudophryne pengilleyi	endangered
Painted Honeyeater	Grantiella picta	vulnerable
Perunga Grasshopper	Perunga ochracea	vulnerable
Pink-tailed Worm Lizard	Aprasia parapulchella	vulnerable
Regent Honeyeater	Xanthomyza phrygia	endangered
Silver Perch	Bidyanus bidyanus	endangered
Small Purple Pea	Swainsona recta	endangered
Smoky Mouse	Pseudomys fumeus	endangered
Spotted-tailed Quoll	Dasyurus maculatus	vulnerable
Superb Parrot	Polytelis swainsonii	vulnerable
Striped Legless Lizard	Delma impar	vulnerable
Swift Parrot	Lathamus discolor	vulnerable
Trout Cod	Maccullochella macquariensis	endangered
Tuggeranong Lignum	Muehlenbeckia tuggeranong	endangered
Two-spined Blackfish	Gadopsis bispinosus	vulnerable
Varied Sitella	Daphoenositta chrysoptera	vulnerable
White-winged Triller	Lalage sueurii	vulnerable
Yellow Box/Red Gum Grassy Woodland	An ecological community	endangered

Any person or organisation may make a nomination to the Flora and Fauna Committee requesting that the Committee recommend declaration of a species, ecological community or threatening process. A paper setting out guidelines for making a nomination and the criteria specified by the Committee for recommending declaration is available here for download. Criteria for assessment ( PDF 415Kb )

If you would like further information about making a nomination please call Canberra Connect on 13 22 81 or write to:

Secretariat - ACT Flora and Fauna Committee
Research and Planning
Parks, Conservation and Lands
GPO Box 158, Canberra, ACT 2601

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