Help save the brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata)
This conservation project aims to secure the Brush-tailed rock-wallaby in the wild in NSW for 100 years, engage local communities in its conservation, and encourage the NSW community to identify with it as a flagship for threatened species conservation.
Publisher: Office of Environment and Heritage
Cost: Free
Language: English
File: PDF 2.02 MB / Pages 24
Name: brush-tailed-rock-wallaby-petrogale-penicillata-draft-amended-pas-strategy.pdf
The project was developed by experts who identified the minimum number of necessary management sites and conservation actions required to conserve the species.
Eleven sites have been identified in New South Wales. They are:
- Shannon Creek in Clarence Valley local government area (LGA)
- Green Gully in Walcha LGA
- Warrumbungles in Warrumbungle LGA
- Barnard River in Gloucester LGA
- Big Yango in Cessnock; Hawkesbury LGAs
- Watagans in Cessnock; Lake Macquarie; Wyong LGAs
- Wolgan in Lithgow LGA
- Waterfall Springs in Gosford LGA
- Jenolan Caves in Lithgow; Oberon LGAs
- Nattai in Wingecarribee LGA
- Kangaroo Valley in Shoalhaven; Wingecarribee LGAs.
Go to the Brush-tailed rock-wallaby species profile.
Photo: Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) / R Nicolai