Student Projects
This page is provided to assist students undertaking tertiary studies in Natural Resource Management, Environmental Science etc. in choosing projects that contribute towards an improved understanding and management of threatened species in Victoria.
Management Statements are similar to Flora Fauna Guarantee Action Statements and are intended for inclusion on the SWIFFT as well as being forwarded to appropriate management agencies. For FFG listed species a Management Statement may also be considered to form the basis of a draft FFG Action Statement. These types of documents play an important role in increasing our awareness and understanding of threatened species ecology, threats and actions required.
If you decide to undertake a Management Statement please follow the FFG Action Statement format, taking a whole of Victoria view,
The following list contains threatened species which could be available for the preparation of a Management Statement. Please Contact Us to request projects.
Threatened Mammals Project List
Threatened Reptiles & Amphibians Project List
Threatened Invertebrates Project List
Please note that where a person's name is indicated the species is already allocated.
Victorian conservation status | |
EW | Extinct in Wild |
RX | Regionally Extinct |
CR | Critically Endangered |
EN | Endangered |
VU | Vulnerable |
NT | Near Threatened |
DD | Data Deficient |
Threatened Mammals Project List
Common name | Scientific name | Status | |
Gile's Planigale | Planigale gilesi | NT | |
Little Broad-nosed Bat | Scotorepens greyii | NT | |
Mallee Ningaui | Ningaui yvonneae | NT | |
Mitchell's Hopping-mouse | Notomys mitchelli | NT | |
Smoky Mouse | Pseudomys fumeus | NT | |
South-eastern Long-eared Bat | Nyctophilus corbeni | EN | |
Southern Myotis | Myotis macropus | NT |
Threatened Birds Project List
Common name | Scientific name | Status | |
Vic | |||
Australian Painted Snipe | Rostratula benghalensis australis | CR | |
Australasian Shoveler | Anas rhynchotis | VU | |
Australian Pratincole | Stiltia isabella | NT | |
Baillon's Crake | Porzana pusilla | VU | |
Black Falcon | Falco subniger | VU | |
Black-eared Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx osculans | NT | |
Black-faced Cormorant | Phalacrocorax fuscescens | NT | |
Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | VU | |
Caspian Tern | Sterna caspia | NT | |
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren | Hylacola pyrrhopygia | VU | |
Chestnut Quail-thrush | Cinclosoma castanotus | NT | |
Common Diving-Petrel | Pelecanoides urinatrix | NT | |
Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | VU | |
Crested Bellbird | Oreoica gutturalis | NT | |
Diamond Dove | Geopelia cuneata | NT | |
Elegant Parrot | Neophema elegans | VU | |
Fairy Prion | Pachyptila turtur | VU | |
Fairy Tern | Sterna nereis | EN | |
Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | NT | |
Greater Sand Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | CR | |
Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | EN | |
Grey-tailed Tattler | Heteroscelus brevipes | CR | |
Gull-billed Tern | Sterna nilotica | EN | |
Inland Dotterel | Charadrius australis | VU | |
Lesser Sand Plover | Charadrius mongolus | CR | |
Little Button-quail | Turnix velox | NT | |
Magpie Goose | Anseranas semipalmata | NT | |
Nankeen Night Heron | Nycticorax caledonicus | NT | |
Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fuva | VU | |
Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | NT | |
Red-backed Kingfisher | Todiramphus pyrrhopygia | NT | |
Red-chested Button-quail | Turnix pyrrhothorax | VU | |
Red Knot | Calidris canutus | EN | |
Royal Spoonbill | Platalea regia | NT | |
Rufous Fieldwren | Calamanthus campestris | NT | |
Sanderling | Calidris alba | NT | |
Slender-billed Thornbill | Acanthiza iredalei | NT | |
Speckled Warbler | Chthonicola sagittata | VU | |
Spotted Harrier | Circus assimilis | NT | |
Spotted Quail-thrush | Cinclosoma punctatum | NT | |
Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | EN | |
Western Whipbird | Psophodes nigrogularis | CR | |
Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | VU | |
Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybridus | NT | |
White-faced Storm-Petrel | Pelagodroma marina | VU | |
White-fronted Tern | Sterna striata | NT | |
White-winged Black Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | NT | |
Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | VU |
Reptiles & Amphibians Project List
Common name | Scientific name | Status | |
Vic | |||
Bearded Dragon | Pogona barbata | VU | |
Broad-shelled Turtle | Chelodina expansa | EN | |
Carpet Python | Morelia spilota metcalfei | EN | |
Dwarf Burrowing Skink | Lerista timida | EN | |
Glossy Grass Skink | Pseudemoia rawlinsoni | VU | |
Grassland Earless Dragon | Tympanocryptis pinguicolla | CR | |
Heath Skink | Liopholis multiscutata | CR | |
Hooded Scaly-foot | Pygopus nigriceps | CR | |
Mallee Worm-Lizard | Aprasia aurita | VU | |
Masters' Snake | Drysdalia mastersii | EN | |
Millewa Skink | Hemiergis millewae | CR | |
Patch-nosed Brown Snake | Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha | NT | |
Pink-tailed Worm-Lizard | Aprasia parapulchella | EN | |
Port Lincoln Snake | Suta spectabilis | VU | |
Red-naped Snake | Furina diadema | VU | |
Samphire Skink | Morethia adelaidensis | EN | |
Tree Goanna (Lace Monitor) | Varanus varius | EN | |
Tussock Skink | Pseudemoia pagenstecheri | VU |
Threatened Freshwater Fish Project List
Common name | Scientific name | Status | |
Vic | |||
Flat-headed Galaxias | Galaxias rostratus | VU | |
Freshwater Catfish | Tandanus tandanus | EN | |
Murray Cod | Maccullochella peelii peelii | VU | |
Murray Hardyhead | Craterocephalus fluviatilis | CR | |
Silver Perch | Bidyanus bidyanus | VU |
Threatened Invertebrates Project List
Common name | Scientific name | Status | ||
Vic | ||||
Amethyst Hairstreak butterfly (Icilius Blue) | Jalmenus icilius | rare | ||
Bullant | Myrmecia sp. 17 | VU | ||
Caddisfly (5008) | Archaeophylax canarus | rare | ||
Caddisfly (5024) | Taskiria otwayensis | EN | ||
Calanoid copepod (5030) | Boekella nyoraensis | rare | ||
Ghost Shrimp | Eucalliax tooradin | |||
Glenelg Freshwater Mussel | Hyridella glenelgensis | - | ||
Land snail species | Pernagera gatliffi | |||
Large Ant Blue Butterfly | Acrodipsas brisbanensis | rare | ||
Large Brown Azure Butterfly | Ogyris idmo halmaturia | EN | ||
Metallic Green Carpenter Beetle | Xylocopa aeratus | EX | ||
Reddish-orange Sun moth | Synemon jcara | VU | ||
Sea-cucumber species | Thyone nigra | - | ||
Silvered Skipper | Hesperilla crypsargyra lesouefi | rare | ||
Small Ant Blue Butterfly | Acrodipsas myrmecophila | EN | ||
Small Orange-spotted Sun moth | Synemon discalis | |||
Water beetle | Hygrobia australasiae | - | ||
Western Bright-eyed Brown butterfly | Heteronympha cordace wilsoni | VU |