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This page lists all species currently classified as threatened. Visit the Assessing and categorising threatened species page to learn about how we categorise and assess threatened species and how you can nominate.

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Alpine Tree Frog
(Litoria verreauxii alpina)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Frog
An Alpine Tree Frog sitting on mossy damp earth.
Alpine Water Skink
(Eulamprus kosciuskoi)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Reptile
A close-up, top-down photograph shows an Alpine Water Skink resting on a bed of bright green moss and some sparse, blade-like grasses.
Austral Toadflax
(Thesium australe)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Plant
A close-up of the Austral toadflax plant, showing its slender green stems, needle-like leaves, and a single, tiny white flower in focus against a soft-focus green background.
Australasian Bittern
(Botaurus poiciloptilus)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Bird
An Australasian bittern soars through a pale blue sky with light clouds. The large, stout-bodied bird is photographed in profile, with its broad, brown-and-cream barred wings fully extended in flight.
Australian Painted Snipe
(Rostratula australis)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Bird
A bird stands in shallow water that covers its feet. It has brown feathers and a white belly, brown eyes, and a long pink-orange bill. It has a white mark around its eye and a white stripe from its belly, up the front and onto its back.
Baeuerlen's Gentian
(Gentiana baeuerlenii)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Plant
A Bauerlens Gentian - a long, tube-like plant with a small purple flower growing from the top and short green leaves sprouting from the sides.
Black Gum
(Eucalyptus aggregata)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Plant
Large black gum tree with sprawling branches and green foliage growing in an open grassy landscape under a partly cloudy sky.
Brindabella Midge Orchid
(Corunastylis ectopa)
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Plant
A Brindabella Midge Orchid - a long green stemmed plant with lots of flowers sprouting from the sides of the stem. The flowers have pointy yellow petals with dark red bases
Broad-toothed Rat
(Mastacomys fuscus mordicus)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Mammal
A Broad-toothed Rat. It is a medium-sized native rodent with a broad face, short tail, and stocky body, with soft, dense brown to grey fur and a dark tail.
Brown Treecreeper
(Climacteris picumnus victoriae)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A Brown Treecreeper standing on a piece of fallen tree. The background is blurred, bringing focus to the bird.
Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby
(Petrogale penicillata)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Mammal
A Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby sits atop a boulder with eucalypt trees in the background. It is a small dark grey-red wallaby with light-brown inner ears and a long, dark bushy tail.
Button Wrinklewort
(Rutidosis leptorhynchoides)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Plant
A Button Wrinklewort with sphere-shaped flower with lots of long, yellow petals that make up the sphere shape. Each petal has a short, thin curled tip. 
Canberra Grassland Earless Dragon
(Tympanocryptis lineata)
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Reptile
A Grassland Earless Dragon laying on a person’s hand. It is a small brown lizard with dark markings and yellow lines along its body, and a thin tail.
Canberra Spider Orchid
(Caladenia actensis)
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Plant
A Canberra Spider Orchid with a dense dull green, hairy leaf with a purple-blotched base. A single floweris slightly green and is heavily marked with red–crimson lines.
Common Greenshank
(Tringa nebularia)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Bird
A Common Greenshank stands in profile, facing left, in shallow water or wet mud.
Curlew Sandpiper
(Calidris ferruginea)
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Bird
A Curlew Sandpiper, standing in shallow water with a soft reflection on the water’s surface.
Diamond Firetail
(Stagonopleura guttata)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A Diamond Firetail. It has a brownish-grey back, wings and head. Its belly is white and its beak and rump are red. It has a black band through it's eyes and distinctive white spots on its sides.
Eastern Bettong
(Bettongia gaimardi)
  • Status: Regionally Conservation Dependent
  • Category: Mammal
An Eastern Bettong with grey-brown fur on top and lighter fur on its belly. It has pinkish skin around its mouth, nose, feet, and inside its ears. Its back feet are long, and its front paws have long, curved claws.
Dwarf Violet
(Viola improcera)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Plant
A Dwarf Violet. It is a small plant that grows to about 2 cm tall. It has tufted leaves with wavy edges and produces pale blue-violet flowers with 5 petals.
Eastern Quoll
(Dasyurus viverrinus)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Mammal
An Eastern Quoll with fawn coloured fur with white spots, and a bushy tail with a white tip.
Gang-gang Cockatoo
(Callocephalon fimbriatum)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Bird
A Gang-gang Cockatoo sits in a tree. It has a bright red head with a wispy crest and slate-grey feathers with white edges.
Ginninderra Peppercress
(Lepidium ginninderrense)
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Plant
A Ginninderra Peppercress with dark green stem, thick, fleshy leaves and small cream-coloured flowers.
Glossy Black-Cockatoo
(Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
Glossy Black Cockatoos with small yellow markings around their necks and red patches on their tail
Golden Sun Moth
(Synemon plana)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Invertebrate
A Golden Sun Moth, a small orange and black moth with white markings on its wings, resting on the ground amongst dry grass
Green and Golden Bell Frog
(Litoria aurea)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Frog
A Green and Golden Bell Frog sits on a green reed. It has brown blotches along its back and legs, and a black strip from its nose to ear.
Grey-headed Flying-fox
(Pteropus poliocephalus)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Mammal
A Grey-headed Flying-fox. Its fur is medium to dark grey, with lighter tips and russet-coloured collar and black wing membranes.
Gula
(Koala, Phascolarctos cinereus)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Mammal
A Gula (Koala) looking back at the viewer while perched in the fork of a eucalypt tree.
High Country Bogs and Associated Fens
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Ecological Community
Aerial view of an alpine bog.
Hoary Sunray
(Leucochrysum albicans subsp. tricolor)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Plant
Hoary Sunray flowers with a yellow head and white long oblong petals. Its leaves and stalk are a pale grey green.
Hooded Robin
(Melanodryas cucullata)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Bird
A Hooded Robin with a black head and wings, white fluffy belly and short pointed beak, perched on a tree branch.
Key's Matchstick Grasshopper
(Keyacris scurra)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Invertebrate
A Key's Matchstick Grasshopper sits on a twig. It is a small, brown, wingless grasshopper with a slanted face and short, sword-like antennae.
Kiandra Greenhood
(Pterostylis oreophila)
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Plant
Two Kiandra Greenhood orchids They have dark, fleshy, flat leaves and a single green and white flower. Their curved labellum (or lip) is blue-green.
Latham’s Snipe
(Gallinago hardwickii)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A Latham's Snipe, a medium-sized wading bird, is captured in a close-up shot as it carefully walks along a weathered, light-colored log.
Little Eagle
(Hieraaetus morphnoides)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A Little Eagle flying with their wings outstretched. It has brown, white and black feathers.
Macquarie Perch
(Macquaria australasica)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Fish
A silvery-brown Macquarie Perch with small fins and a pointed face swims amongst rocks and reeds.
Mountain Skink
(Liopholis montana)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Reptile
A Mountain Skink with a slender body, smooth brown scales, and white spots along its sides, perched on a light-coloured rock.
Murray River Crayfish
(Euastacus armatus)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Invertebrate
A grey-brown Murray River Crayfish with large cream-coloured pincers sitting at the edge of a riverbank.
Murrumbidgee Bossiaea
(Bossiaea grayi)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Plant
A Murrumbidgee Bossiaea plant with long green stems and leaves and yellow and brown flowers.
Natural Temperate Grassland
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Ecological Community
Long natural grasses fading into mountains in the distance
New Holland Mouse
(Pseudomys novaehollandiae)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Mammal
A captive New Holland Mouse sits inside a hollow log in a tub. It is wearing a radio transmitter for research purposes as part of the reintroduction program at Mulligans Flat Sanctuary.
Northern Corroboree Frog
(Pseudophryne pengilleyi)
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Frog
A Northern Corroboree Frog sitting on moss. It is a small black frog with yellow marbling.
Painted Honeyeater
(Grantiella picta)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A black, white and yellow Painted Honeyeater sitting on a branch in a tree.
Pale Pomaderris
(Pomaderris pallida)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Plant
A Pale Pomaderris shrub. It is a small, rounded shrub that grows up to 2 m high. Its leaves are small with both sides covered in soft, tiny hairs.
Perunga Grasshopper
(Perunga ochracea)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Invertebrate
A Perunga Grasshopper sitting amongst dried leaves. It is brown with dark markings on its back. 
Pilotbird
(Pycnoptilus floccosus)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A Pilotbird sits on a branch. It has deep rufous brown feathers, with a cinnamon forehead, throat, chest and belly. The lower belly is dull white. It has amber eyes, a pointed bill, and a long, broad tail.
Pink-tailed Worm-lizard
(Aprasia parapulchella)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Reptile
A Pink-tailed Worm-lizard curled up on some small pebbles. It is a grey snake-like worm with a dark pink tail tip.
Regent Honeyeater
(Xanthomyza phrygia)
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Bird
A Regent Honeyeater perched on a branch. It is a long, thin black bird with yellow feathers and yellow around its eyes.
Riek's Crayfish
(Euastacus rieki)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Invertebrate
A mans hand holds a Riek's Crayfish. The crayfish has dark brown claws, orange joints and a lighter brown body with white spots.
Scarlet Robin
(Petroica boodang)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A Scarlet Robin stands on a brown branch looking down at the ground. It is a small, brownish grey, round bird with a red chest and short, pointy beak.
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
(Calidris acuminata)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A Sharp-tailed Sandpiper wading in shallow muddy water among sparse green grasses.
Silver Perch
(Bidyanus bidyanus)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Fish
A Silver Perch with a streamlined, silvery-grey body and a spiny dorsal fin, swimming near smooth river rocks underwater.
Small Purple Pea
(Swainsona recta)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Plant
A Small Purple Pea plant with a long green stem and approximately 7 purple flowers growing vertically up the plant.
Smoky Mouse
(Pseudomys fumeus)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Mammal
A Smoky Mouse sitting and looking up at the camera. It is a small greyish-brown mouse.
Southern Bell Frog
(Litoria raniformis)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Frog
A Southern Bell Frog with a green and brown mottled body and golden eyes, sitting on a rock.
Southern Brown Bandicoot
(Isoodon obesulus obesulus)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Mammal
A small marsupial with brown-grey fur on its body and paler underneath. Its face is cone-shaped, with small, rounded ears. It sits on a patch of short, dried grass.
Southern Greater Glider
(Petauroides volans)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Mammal
A southern greater glider with dark grey fur on its arms and legs, white fur on its belly and a long grey/black tail. It has rounded furry ears, large black eyes and is sitting on a tree branch.
Southern Whiteface
(Aphelocephala leucopsis)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A Southern Whiteface. It is a small, stocky bird with grey-brown feathers and white underparts, a black band with white tips on its tail and a white forehead with a black edge.
Spotted-tailed Quoll
(Dasyurus maculatus)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Mammal
A Spotted-tailed Quoll running across rocky terrain. It is the size of a cat with rich red-brown fur and white spots on it's back and tail.
Striped Legless Lizard
(Delmar impar)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Reptile
A brown, snake-like Striped Legless Lizard curled up in long grass.
Superb Parrot
(Polytelis swainsonii)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A green Superb Parrot with a yellow forehead and chin and a red beak and throat perched on a tree hollow. 
Swift Parrot
(Lathamus discolor)
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Bird
A small bright green Swift Parrot with red, blue and yellow markings, sitting in a eucalypt tree.
Tarengo Leek Orchid
(Prasophyllum petilum)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Plant
A Tarengo Leek Orchid with a long green stem and many greenish-white flowers with pink accents growing up the long stem.
Trout Cod
(Maccullochella macquariensis)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Fish
A large silvery-brown Trout Cod fish with dark markings swimming low near large rocks.
Tuggeranong Lignum
(Muehlenbeckia tuggeranong)
  • Status: Endangered
  • Category: Plant
A light grey rock covered in Tuggeranong Lignam moss, a wiry brown and dark green plant.
Two-spined Blackfish
(Gadopsis bispinosus)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Fish
Long brown-green Two-spined Blackfish with dark brown tiger-like spots swimming low near some rocks and moss.
Varied Sittella
(Daphoenositta chrysoptera)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A Varied Sittella sits on a tree branch. It is a small bird with a sooty head, pale grey back with dark streaks, dark wings with a reddish bar and a white-tipped black tail.
White-throated Needletail
(Hirundapus caudacutus)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A White-throated Needletail in full flight, seen from below against a pale blue sky. The bird is dark brown with a distinct white throat and long, curved, sickle-shaped wings.
White-winged Triller
(Lalage tricolor)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Bird
A White-winged Triller sits on a branch. It is a medium sized bird, brown in colour with lighter underparts and dark wing feathers with pale edges.
Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Woodlands
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Ecological Community
Woodland showing Yellow Box-Blakely’s Red Gum trees .
Yellow-bellied Glider
(Petaurus australis australis)
  • Status: Vulnerable
  • Category: Mammal
A Yellow-bellied Glider sts in the fork of a tree. It is a medium-sized marsupial with grey-brown fur and a black stripe down its back and tail. It has yellowish-white belly fur.
Yellow-spotted Bell Frog
(Litoria castanea)
  • Status: Critically endangered
  • Category: Frog
A close-up, side-profile view of a Yellow-spotted bell frog resting on dark soil. The frog has smooth, bright green skin on its back, a distinct ridge along its side, and a belly and flank area featuring a pattern of raised yellow and black spots.

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