With Queensland being Australia's most diverse state, the Central Queensland region contributes its fair share. With rainforest, reefs, native grasslands, woodlands and wetlands the Central Queensland area has become important habitat to more than 600 animal species and over 3,200 plant species.

Learn more about some of the threatened flora and fauna in our region and the partnerships and projects in place to protect them:

Fitzroy Threatened Grasslands

The natural grasslands of the Queensland Central Highlands and the northern Fitzroy Basin have been listed as endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). These grasslands are dominated (but not limited to) Queensland Bluegrass ( Dichanthium sp.). The Threatened Grasslands project aims to increase awareness and improve management of natural grasslands and implement recovery actions (includes reduction of Weeds of National Significance) in priority areas.

For more information read our Grasslands fact sheet

Australian Snubfin and Indo-pacific Humpback Dolphins

FBA is continuing to support the ongoing research in to the abundance and distribution of these species. click here to read more about this research.

Bridled Nailtail Wallaby

The Bridled Nailtail Wallaby ( Onychogalea fraen ata ) is also commonly know as the Flash Jack, Merrin or Waistcoat Wallaby. In Queensland the Bridled Nailtail Wallaby is listed as Endangered under the Nature Conservation Act 1992

The Wallaby was thought to be extinct, however it ws rediscovered in 1 973 on a property near Dingo in Central Queensland. this property has since become Taunton Nation Park (scientific). Other Wallaby populations can be found at Avocet Nature Refuge near Emerald and Idalia National Park at Blackall.

FBA supports ongoing programs to ensure that populations of this species continue to increase in the wild. this includes participation in monitoring of the Wallaby in established populations and support of the captive breeding program. For more information go to the following links. 

Department of Environment and Resource Management  

The Bridled Nailtail Wallaby Trust

Black Breasted Button Quail

The Black Breasted Button Quail ( Turnix melanogaster) is listed as Vulnerable in Queensland under the Nature Conservation Act 1999. The habitat of the BBBQ has been widely cleared and existing populations of the quail is very fragmented. FBA is providing support to research being conducted by the Central Queensland University. This research aims to;

• Identify possible BBBQ habitat in the Fitzroy Basin using vegetation mapping
• Locate BBBQ populations in significant habitat remnants
• Identify remnants of high habitat value for conservation 

For more information go to the following links

  Department of Environment and Resource Management

National Recovery Plan for BBBQ

Fitzroy River Turtle

Click here for more information about the Fitzroy River Turtle

Kroombit Tinker Frog and the Cascade Tree Frog

FBA is currently supporting new and ongoing research programs to better understand these two threatened frog species. These programs aim to monitor existing populations and the condition of their habitat, search for new populations and measure the impacts of fire and pest animals on the frogs and their habitat.

Yellow Chat

Click here for more information about the Yellow Chat