Watch Oliver talk about helping to find out about the habitat of the Little Whip Snake here
Hastings River Mouse
Here are just a few more of the 1000 threatened Plants and Animals in NSW.
Greater Glider
The greater glider is the longest glider in the world and can glide up to 100 metres. The greater glider communicates using scent, instead of sound, and is recognised by its large, furry ears.
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Sooty Owl It is dark sooty grey with large black eyes in a
grey face, fine white spotting on the upperparts and breast, and fine grey barring on the pale belly
and legs.
The feet are large and powerful, with fully feat
hered legs down to th
e toes.
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The crimson spider orchid (Caladenia concolor), which is endangered in NSW, boasts deep purplish-red flowers that are said to smell like a hot motor when they bloom in September.
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Potoroo.
Lives in dense eucalypt forests and eats up to 58 different types of underground fungi or truffles.
photo Jude Deland
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Camarophyllopsis kearneyi
photo Ray and Elma Kearney
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Loss of the habitat of the Ringed Brown Snake occurs as a consequence of land use, especially grazing by both livestock and feral animals
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The Fairy Penguin colony near Manly in Sydney is the last colony on the mainland in NSW. Numbers are critically low, mainly because they have been preyed on by foxes and dogs
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Bridled Nail tailed wallaby. There are are very few of these solitary wallabies left in the wild - It is estimated that there are only 400-600 left.
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Koala. Native forest logging and land clearing for development is destroying their homes - with rapidly declining populations in NSW .
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The Swift Parrot is the world's fastest parrot! They breed in Tasmania, then fly across Bass Strait to forage on the flowering eucalypts in open box–ironbark forests of the Australian mainland. It is these forests in both Tasmania and Southern NSW that are being logged and cleared
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Crab spiders can remain perfectly still on a leaf or flower for weeks waiting for their prey. They are critically endangered in NSW
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The squirrel glider is sparsely distributed in eastern Australia, inhabiting mature or old growth box, box-ironbark woodlands and river red gum forest west of the Great Dividing Range.
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Barking Owl They are a medium-sized brown owl and have a characteristic voice that can range from a barking dog noise to a shrill woman-like scream of great intensity.
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Green and Gold Bell frog. it does not live in trees and spends almost all of its time close to ground level. It can reach up to 11 cm (4.5 in) in length, making it one of Australia's largest frogs.
he regent honeyeater is a striking black and yellow bird, it has a sturdy, curved bill and its flight and tail feathers are edged with bright yellow. It feeds mainly on insects, eucalypt nectar and mistletoe nectar and fruit
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The endangered southern swamp orchid has flower stems up to 2 metres tall with up to 20 large, showy flowers per stem. The southern swamp orchid has four petals that are white at the outside and brown with white or yellow veins in the interior.
The Kaputar pink slug is found only in one region - in the Mt Kaputar area and is part of a threatened ecological community
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Corroboree Frogs are Australia’s most iconic amphibian species, and are amongst the most visually spectacular frogs in the world. There are two closely related species of Corroboree Frog:
Both Corroboree Frog species are between 2.5 and 3 centimetres in length.
Leckie's crayfish has never been found outside of its original habitat - a remote region of northern NSW
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Waterwheel plant The plant captures small aquatic invertebrates using traps similar to those of the Venus flytrap. The traps are arranged in whorls around a central, free-floating stem, giving rise to the common name. This is one of the few plant species capable of rapid movement. photo John Briggs
Residents in the Manly area are doing all they can to save the Red Crowned Toadlet, which is threatened by development.
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Dorrigo waratahs are found only on the Dorrigo plateau in northern NSW
Grey headed flying fox. Once very common along the coast it's numbers nationally have plummeted from 2 million to around 200,000
Ecological Communities can be threatened too! What is an ecological community? An ecological community is a naturally occurring group of native plants, animals and other organisms that are interacting in a unique habitat. Its structure, composition and distribution are determined by environmental factors such as soil type, position in the landscape, altitude, climate and water availability. 
Box Gum Woodlands are threatened Ecological Communities in NSW. Healthy box gum woodlands and their associated grasslands typically possess white box, yellow box or Blakely’s red gum trees and a rich understorey of native grasses, herbs and shrubs that all work together harmoniously in a healthy environment. When parts of that environment are destroyed, all of the rest suffers too.
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The elegant Brolga is another bird that is threatened in NSW
The glossy black cockatoo is now threatened in NSW. Habitat loss has been the main reason.
Long nosed northern bandicoot
The fairy orchid is another plant that is threatened in NSW
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The Eastern Blue Groper is the fish emblem of NSW. It is particularly susceptible to spearfishing because it is very inquisitive by nature and not frightened of humans.
Wedge tailed eagle
Great Hammerhead shark. Although they are not targeted directly by commercial fisheries, hammerheads are a bycatch species of longline and drift net fisheries.
The bordered guinea flower occurs only in northern NSW. It is one of the species that scientists are trying hard to save.
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The numbat was once common in NSW but is now extinct in this state and is now found only in two reserves in Western Australia. They live on a diet of termites.
The broadheaded snake was once common around the Sydney region but there are few if any left there now.
Giant Barred frog. Land clearing, changes in water flow , degradation of water quality, disturbance to vegetation, feral animals, domestic stock and weed invasion have been identified as threats.
The Wollemi pine was only discovered in 1994 and has been part of a huge recovery effort. Right now scientists seem to be winning in their efforts to save it.
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