OUR THREATENED SPECIES T
he City of Hobart’s bushland reserves protect many native plants and animals, including threatened species and vegetation communities listed at state and federal levels. Ensuring our reserves remain ecologically healthy and robust is critical to protecting these vulnerable species. Within the City are 28 vegetation communities. This includes one federally-listed vegetation community, Lowland Native Grasslands of Tasmania, which are critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Four vegetation communities are considered to be threatened and listed on Schedule 3A of
Tasmania’s Nature Conservation Act 2002. Ten flora species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 are known to occur within Hobart’s bushland reserves. They are also listed on Tasmania’s Threatened Species Protection Act 1995. Eleven fauna species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 are known to occur in our bushlands and of these, nine are also listed on the state Threatened Species Protection Act 1995. Of these threatened species, five are endemic to Hobart – the Ammonite snail, forest fingers, Knocklofty leek-orchid, Mt Wellington eyebright and silky snail.
KEY FLORA SPECIES • Forest fingers, Caladenia sylvicola • Mt Wellington eyebright, Euphrasia gibbsiae subsp. wellingtonensis • Stinking pennywort, Hydrocotyle laxiflora • Knocklofty leek-orchid, Prasophyllum perangustum • Bare midge-orchid, Corunastylis nudiscapa • Shade nettle, Australina pusilla subsp. muelleri • Dainty leek-orchid, Prasophyllum amoenum
KEY FAUNA SPECIES • Silky snail, Roblinella agnewi • Ammonite snail, Discocharopa vigens • Tussock skink, Pseudemoia pagenstecheri • Tasmanian Chaostola skipper, Antipodia chaostola subsp. leucophaea • Eastern barred bandicoot, Perameles gunnii • Grey goshawk, Accipiter novaehollandiae • Swift parrot, Lathamus discolour • Masked owl, Tyto novaehollandiae • Eastern quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus • Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, Aquila audax subsp. Fleayi • Little penguin, Eudyptula minor
Considered extinct on the mainland eastern quoll numbers are now falling in Tasmania. Photo: Michael Roberts Bandicoot Times
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Spring 2019 | No 74
