If there is any movement that might mean danger or food, they quickly open their eyes. Conservation Undoubtably the biggest threat to reptile fauna in Australia is destruction of habitat. The preservation of adequate habitat to effectively conserve the diversity of Tasmania's flora and fauna is not something that the Parks and Wildlife service can tackle on its own. All bush, whether it is a council reserve, the back of somebodies block, a patch of scrub on a farm that hasn't been cleared, is home to wildlife. If you have any bush on your property, keep it weed free.
Many reptiles rely on rocks and logs for shelter.
You can help protect reptiles by buying quarried stone for rockeries rather than collecting bushrock. Hollow logs provide shelter not only from cold, rain and predators, but shelter animals from fire as well. It is important to remember that while hollow logs do, in fact, grow on trees, they usually take at least eighty years to develop. It is important to try to think in time frames of eighty years when managing vegetation. Cats cause a great deal of damage to Australia's fauna.