Long-footed potoroo - endangered species listing
The long-footed potoroo (Potorous longipes) is listed as ENDANGERED on the schedules of the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act. The species was listed because:
- Its population and distribution have been reduced to a critical level
- It faces severe threatening processes
- It is an ecological specialist (it depends on particular types of diet or habitat)
The above reasons are a summary of why the species was listed as endangered. The reasons are based on:
- Criteria set down in the Endangered Fauna Protection Act, which has now been replaced by the Threatened Species Conservation Act.
- Data obtained from a questionnaire sent out to experts on this species. The questionnaire was used to evaluate the status of all threatened and non-threatened native vertebrates in NSW. The results were published in an NPWS monograph which you can buy online - see below for more details.
More information
- Lunney, D., Curtin, A.L., Ayers, D., Cogger, H.G., Dickman, C.R., Maitz, W., Law, B. and Fisher, D. (2000) The threatened and non-threatened native vertebrate fauna of New South Wales: status and ecological attributes. NPWS, Sydney. Buy this publication from the NSW Government Online Bookshop.
Page last updated: 12 February 2008