Western Barred Bandicoot Perameles bougainville, Burrowing Bettong Bettongia lesueur and Banded Hare-Wallaby Lagostrophus fasciatus National Recovery Plan
Department of Environment and Conservation (WA), 2012
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Summary
This recovery plan covers four marsupial taxa listed under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Each of the taxa is listed under Schedule 1 'Fauna that is likely to become extinct or is rare' under provisions of Section 14 of the Western Australian Wildlife Conservation Act 1950. The four listed threatened taxa represent the only extant taxa of their respective species: western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville), burrowing bettong (Shark Bay Island subspecies and Barrow Island subspecies) (Bettongia lesueur lesueur and Bettongia lesueur unnamed subspecies) and banded hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus). The recovery plan therefore covers all remaining examples of these species. The species have each contracted markedly in range and wild populations are now found only on islands off the coast of Western Australia.
The islands which contain populations are: Bernier Island, Dorre Island, Barrow and Boodie Islands. Remaining sites with existing recovery work are mostly National Parks or private conservation reserves. Recovery of the western barred bandicoot and burrowing bettong occurs within the remaining pastoral leases of Carrarang Station and Lorna Glen with support from WA Department of Environment and Conservation. Private conservation sites and those on pastoral leases are very important to the recovery of these species, as is the involvement of both government and non-government interests.
This recovery plan is the first national recovery plan for these species. It outlines the recovery actions that are required to address those threatening processes most affecting the ongoing survival, and begin the recovery process.
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