page_title: Black-flanked rock-wallaby
section_title: Endangered status
hierarchical_section_title: Black-flanked rock-wallaby / Endangered status
caption_attribution_description: Petrogale lateralis
context_page_description: The black-flanked rock-wallaby, also known as the black-footed rock-wallaby or warru, is a species of wallaby, one of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale.
context_section_description: The Australian Commonwealth Government's Department of Environment and Water Resources lists the black-flanked rock-wallaby as having "Vulnerable" status and cites various habitats in Western Australia.
  The subspecies found at the Recherche Archipelago was assessed as a vulnerable species in 2006.
  The State Government reported that there were just 50 animals left in the wild in South Australia in 2007. In October 2007, 15 wallabies were moved into an open-range zoo which undertakes breeding programs for endangered species, Monarto Zoo. The animals came from the Pukatja/Ernabella area and another undisclosed location in the  Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. Work to monitor the species' survival was said to involve Aboriginal trackers and schoolchildren from Pukatja to help track the wallabies' movements.
  Previously widespread throughout the ranges of central Australia, the warru is as of July 2019 South Australia's most endangered mammal, primarily due to predation by foxes and feral cats. However Monarto has had some success in breeding the wallabies, and has helped to establish a viable population (22) of the wallabies in a 1 square kilometre (0.39 sq mi) fenced area, known as the Pintji, in the APY lands. In June 2017 Monarto announced that 25 of the population bred at Pintji, along with 15 others, had been released into the wild. These will be monitored and feral animal control measures are in place.
caption: Illustration from Gould's Mammals of Australia, 1863[6]
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