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Barker has or used to have 48 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Mallee Emu-wren.

We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.

Photo of Mallee Emu-wren

Mallee Emu-wren

Stipiturus mallee

Status: Endangered

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories

Stipiturus mallee is found across 2 electorates.

The mallee emu-wren is found in the mallee country on the South Australian and Victorian border. It occurs in areas of spinifex sometimes with an overstorey of mallee woodland. It prefers dense stands of long unburnt spinifex. A 2014 wildfire in South Australia seems to have almost wiped out the South Australian populations. The bird appears now only to be surviving in small pockets in Victoria.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Adverse fire regimesAdverse fire regimes

Climate change and severe weatherClimate change and severe weather

Invasive species and diseasesInvasive species and diseases

Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.

Barker has or used to have 54 threatened plants found within its boundaries. Some of these might not be as photogenic as the Mallee Emu-wren but they're just as important.

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