Fauna recovery plans

Recovery plans and interim recovery plans for Western Australian fauna are either available on this Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) website or the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water website.

Recovery plans and interim recovery plans published by DBCA are available in the Downloads section below.

Downloads

Abrolhos painted button-quail (Turnix varius scintillans)

- 502.1 KB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Antina, Central rock rat (Zyzomys pedunculatus)

- 873.92 KB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Australasian bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus)

- 2.09 MB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Camaenid land snails of the East Kimberley

- 648.33 KB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis)

- 376.26 KB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Djoongari or Shark Bay mouse (Pseudomys fieldi)

- 321.15 KB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Burrowing crayfish (Engaewa reducta, E. pseudoreducta, E. walpolea)

- 2.82 MB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Gilbert’s potoroo (Potorous gilbertii)

- 1.37 MB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Lancelin Island skink (Ctenotus lancelini)

- 317.19 KB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Minnivale trapdoor spider (Teyl species C)

- 179.13 KB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis)

- 19 bytes (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Red knot (Calidris canutus), Curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea), Great knot (Calidris tenuirostris), Greater sand plover (Charadrius leschenaultii), Lesser sand plover (Charadrius mongolus), Bar-tailed godwit (western Alaskan) (Limosa lapponica baueri

- 5.99 MB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Sunset frog (Spicospina flammocaerulea)

- 138.66 KB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Thick-billed grasswren (western subspecies) (Amytornis textilis textilis)

- 410.9 KB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Western trout minnow (Galaxias truttaceus hesperius)

- 557.07 KB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

White-bellied frog (Geocrinia alba), Orange-bellied frog (Geocrinia vitellina)

- 1.67 MB (PDF) Last updated 22-08-2023

Recovery plans for the following species and groups of species can be searched for on the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water website:


Albatrosses, Giant petrels
National recovery plan for ten species of seabirds Antarctic tern [Indian Ocean] (Sterna vittata vittata) Australian lesser noddy (Anous tenuirostris melanops) Blue petrel (Halobaena caerulea) Fairy prion [southern] (Pachyptila tutur subantarctica) Herald petrel (Pterodroma heraldica) Soft-plumaged petrel (Pterodroma mollis)
Australian sea-lion (Neophoca cinerea)
Baudin’s cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus baudinii) Forest red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii naso)
Recovery plan for five species of rock wallabies Black-footed rock wallaby (Petrogale lateralis) Short-eared rock wallaby (Petrogale brachyotis) Monjon (Petrogale burbidgei) Nabarlek (Petrogale concinna) Rothschild rock wallaby (Petrogale rothschildi)
Blue, fin and sei whale recovery plan Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)
Butler’s dunnart (Sminthopsis butleri)
Cape Range remipede community (Bundera Sinkhole) and Cape Range remipede interim recovery plan Cape Range Remipede (Kumonga exleyi (formerly Lasionectes exleyi))
Carnaby's cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris)
Camerons Cave troglobitic community, Camerons Cave millipede and Camerons Cave pseudoscorpion interim recovery plan Camerons Cave Millipede (Stygiochiropus peculiaris) Camerons Cave Pseudoscorpion (Indohya damocles (formerly Hyella sp.))
Chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii)
National multi-species recovery plan for the partridge pigeon, crested shrike-tit and masked owl Crested shrike-tit [northern (sub)species] (Falcunculus (frontatus) whitei) Masked owl [north Australian mainland subspecies] (Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli) Partridge pigeon [eastern subspecies] (Geophaps smithii smithii)
Recovery plan for marine turtles in Australia Flatback turtle (Natator depressus) Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
Golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus) Golden-backed tree-rat (Mesembriomys macrurus)
Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)
Great desert skink (Liopholis kintorei (formerly Egernia kintorei))
Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
Greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis)
Grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus)
Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata)
Northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus)
Northern marsupial mole (Notoryctes caurinus) Southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops)
Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus)
Plains rat, Palyoora (Pseudomys australis)
Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus)
Rufous Hare-wallaby, Mala (Bernier and Dorre Islands) (Lagorchestes hirsutus bernieri) Rufous Hare-wallaby, Mala (central mainland) (Lagorchestes hirsutus spp. NTM U2430)
Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis)
Sub-Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis) Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonine)
Quokka (Setonix brachyurus)
Western barred bandicoot, burrowing bettong and banded hare-wallaby recovery plan Western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) Burrowing bettong (Bettongia lesueur) Banded hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus)
South Coast Threatened Birds recovery plan Western ground parrot (Pezoporus wallicus flaviventris) Western bristlebird (Dasyornis longirostris) Noisy scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus) Western whipbird (western heath) (Psophodes nigrogularis nigrogularis) Western whipbird (western mallee) (Psophodes nigrogularis oberon) Rufous bristlebird (western) (Dasyornis broadbenti litoralis)
Western ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis)
Western spiny-tailed skink (Egernia stokesii)
Western swamp tortoise (Pseudemydura umbrina)
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus)
Woylie (Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi)