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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.

Kennedy has or used to have 63 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Mount Cooper Striped Skink.

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 Mount Cooper Striped Skink

Mount Cooper Striped Skink

Lerista vittata

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

Lerista vittata has greater than 80% of its range within Kennedy

The Mount Cooper Striped Lerista is a pale grey or grey-brown reptile growing to 6.5 cm with faint, dark-brown flecks on the head and back, a broad, dark-brown stripe from snout to tail, whitish belly, absent forelimbs, single-digit hind limbs and 18 mid-body scale rows.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Adverse fire regimesAdverse fire regimes

Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradationHabitat loss, fragmentation and degradation

Invasive species and diseasesInvasive species and diseases

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

Kennedy has or used to have 88 threatened plants found within its boundaries. Some of these might not be as photogenic as the Mount Cooper Striped Skink but they're just as important.

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