The Hastings River Mouse is a brownish-grey rodent with a greyish-white belly. It grows to 17 cm long and weighs up to 100 g. Its tail is brown on the upper surface, white underneath and grows to 15 cm long.
Hastings River Mouse |
Pseudomys oralis
Status: Endangered on the EPBC Act list
Government evidence of impact of climate change:
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Australian Government, Conservation Advice, Pseudomys oralis
This sort of event is increasingly likely to reoccur; as a result of climate change. 3.0 Invasive species 3.1 Predation by feral suspected Predation by feral cats has been implicated cats (Felis catus) current in the decline and extinction of many terrestrial; non volant; mammal species (Dickman 1993 Smith Quin 1996 Woinarski et al. 2014b Hardman et al. 2016 Davies et al. 2017 Radford et al. 2018 Woolley et al. 2019).
The bushfires will not have impacted all areas equally some areas burnt at very high intensity whilst other areas burnt at lower intensity; potentially even leaving patches unburnt within the fire footprint.
Therefore; the threat from predation could increase where there is excessive log removal; grazing; or burning that reduces ground cover and shelter sites (Law et al. 2016).
Therefore; the threat from predation could increase where there is excessive log removal; grazing; or burning that reduces ground cover and shelter sites (Law et al. 2016).
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