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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.

Franklin has or used to have 23 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.

Photo of Tasmanian Devil

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

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

Franklin has or used to have 27 threatened plants found within its boundaries. Some of these might not be as photogenic as the Tasmanian Devil but they're just as important.

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