Dr. Tahneal Hawke
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Jun
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We're really trying to implement some conservation strategies before it's too late.
Yeah, so there's a lot of research coming out about that.
Unfortunately, that stuff doesn't feed directly into a nomination under any of the categories for IECN or even our Commonwealth legislation here in Australia.
So that stuff is really reliant on providing evidence of declines in numbers, declines in range.
Is it a small population size or can you provide modelling that suggests that this animal is going to go extinct within X amount of years?
So we put together a submission in 2021 to have it listed as a threatened species under both the IUCN criteria and our Commonwealth legislation.
But as I said, it's hard to get that data.
It's hard to get the data across the entire range.
So...
that nomination was knocked back on the basis of data deficiency with, I guess, they said that there is obvious threats impacting the population, but the data is not strong enough to have it listed at this stage.
So yeah, we're still fighting for it.
We're collecting as much data as we can and we'll keep pushing until it gets the protection that it deserves.
Yeah, so...
I guess for Australians, there's a few things.
So when we're doing these nominations or when we're trying to quantify changes in number and distribution, we can't just rely on our own capture data.
I said it's incredibly time consuming.
It's expensive.
They're widespread.
So the number one thing people can do is report their sightings.
We can kind of use that data to make an attempt to quantify those changes.
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