Conservation Case Study: Basing IUCN Red List Status Assessments on an Absence of Knowledge: The Case of the Parma Wallaby Notomacropus parma
Hayward MW., Vernes K., Ballard G., Budden M., Clulow J., Dooley E., Fleming PJS., Griffin A., Law B., Lees D., Meek PD., Meyer N., Tuckey K.
The parma wallaby (Notomacropus parma Waterhouse, 1846) is a small macropodid marsupial found in the temperate wet forests of south-eastern Australia. It is one of the most understudied critical weight range mammals in Australia, with the only detailed published ecological research being conducted in the 1970s. This chapter reports on the inadequacy of monitoring that has occurred on the parma wallaby (and other threatened macropods) in Australia, and how this lack of baseline information makes responding to the Black Summer bushfires of 2019–2020 exceedingly difficult.