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 Giant Freshwater Crayfish.
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.
Giant Freshwater Crayfish
Astacopsis gouldi
Status: Vulnerable
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
Astacopsis gouldi is found across 3 electorates.
The Giant Freshwater Crayfish is the largest freshwater invertebrate in the world. The species has been reported to grow up to 6 kg but, currently, animals weighing 2–3 kg are considered large. In general, females weigh about 500 g with a carapace length of 12 cm and males weigh around 300 g and have a CPL of 7.6 cm. Adults range from dark brown-green to black or blue. The species is spiny and has distinct chelae, walking legs, carapace and abdomen ending in a tail fan. Males have larger pincers than females. The pincers are brown with greenish tips and the tubucles and spines are yellow.¹
Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia
Changed surface and groundwater regimes
Climate change and severe weather
Overexploitation and other direct harm from human activities
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)
You are in federal electorate Braddon.