Elected representatives in government are in charge of the policy and funding that can make or break saving threatened species. Their decisions and actions matter.
Braddon has or used to have 26 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Tasmanian Devil.
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.
Tasmanian Devil
Sarcophilus harrisii
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
Sarcophilus harrisii is found across 5 electorates.
The world's largest extant marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian Devil typically weighs 7.7–13.0 kg or 4.5–9 kg, having a black coat with variable patches of white on the chest, shoulder and rump, and a stocky frame with fore legs longer than hind legs. Adult size is reached at two years of age. This nocturnal hunter and scavenger is solitary but non-territorial, so that several Tasmanian Devils may feed non-cooperatively at a single carcass.¹
Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia
Invasive species and diseases
Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.
- Maidenhair Spleenwort (Asplenium hookerianum)
- Native Wintercress (Barbarea australis)
- Thick-stem Caladenia (Caladenia campbellii)
- Tailed Spider-orchid (Caladenia caudata)
- Windswept Spider-orchid (Caladenia dienema)
- Rosy Spider Orchid (Caladenia pallida)
- Robust Fingers (Caladenia tonellii)
- Wrinkled Cassinia (Cassinia rugata)
- Pedder Centrolepis (Centrolepis pedderensis)
- Short-spiked Midge-orchid (Corunastylis brachystachya)
- Preminghana Billybutton (Craspedia preminghana)
- Snake Orchid (Diuris lanceolata)
- Funnel Heath (Epacris glabella)
- Pretty Heath (Epacris virgata)
- Miena Cider Gum (Eucalyptus gunnii subsp. divaricata)
- Clover Glycine (Glycine latrobeana)
- Scrambling Ground-fern (Hypolepis distans)
- Basalt Pepper-cress (Lepidium hyssopifolium)
- Hoary Sunray (Leucochrysum albicans subsp. tricolor)
- Three Hummock Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum atratum)
- Crowded Leek-Orchid (Prasophyllum crebriflorum)
- Western Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum favonium)
- Marsh Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum limnetes)
- Pretty Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum pulchellum)
- Robust Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum robustum)
- Northern Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum secutum)
- Leafy Greenhood (Pterostylis cucullata)
- Liawenee Greenhood (Pterostylis pratensis)
- Arthur River Greenhood (Pterostylis rubenachii)
- Grassland Greenhood (Pterostylis ziegeleri)
- Swamp Fireweed (Senecio psilocarpus)
- Creeping Dusty Miller (Spyridium obcordatum)
- Shy Pinkbells (Tetratheca gunnii)
- Sky-blue Sun-orchid (Thelymitra jonesii)
- Shiny Grasstree (Xanthorrhoea bracteata)
- Swamp Everlasting (Xerochrysum palustre)
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