page_title: Kangaroo River Nature Reserve
section_title: Mammals
hierarchical_section_title: Kangaroo River Nature Reserve / Fauna / Mammals
caption_attribution_description: Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby, Petrogale penicillata
context_page_description: The Kangaroo River Nature Reserve, part of the Kangaroo Valley Group of Nature Reserves, is a protected nature reserve that is located on the floor of the Kangaroo Valley in the Southern Highlands and South Coast regions of New South Wales in eastern Australia. The reserve is situated approximately 150 kilometres south of Sydney, 50 kilometres southwest of Wollongong and 16 kilometres northwest of Nowra. The reserve has a protective covenant placed upon it with purpose to ensure the protection of the natural heritage of this area. National parks in the area include the Morton National Park and the Budderoo National Park. Other nature reserves in the area include the Barren Grounds Nature Reserve, and the Cambewarra Range, Barrengarry and Rodway nature reserves – the latter three part of the Kangaroo Valley Group of Nature Reserves.
context_section_description: Also on the list contained in the act are seven mammals. They are the; brushed tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicullata), yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis), spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculates), long-nosed potoroo (Potoous trudactylus), eastern bent-wing bat (Miniopterus schreidersii), smoky mouse (Pseudomys fumeus), greater broad-nosed bat (Scoteanax rueppellii).
  The yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis) and eastern bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus) are amongst other local fauna species that are considered regionally endangered. It is integral to the continued survival of the yellow-bellied glider that the sap trees that are used by the glider as well as non-sap trees such as the grey gum (Eucalyptus punctata) are conserved.
  As the eastern bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus brachypterus) naturally inhabits the ground areas of dense fire prone areas, the primary reason for their population decline can be associated with fire, habitat loss and nest desertion. This then in turn indicates a need for great care to be taken in fire management in places there is eastern bristlebird habitation and to make sure there is unburned vegetation left to allow remaining birds a refuge  One of the locally endangered species is the brush-tailed wallaby. This wallaby survives on naturally fragmented areas of rocky outcrops in small groups to a maximum of about 30 individuals
caption: Brush-tailed rock wallaby (Petrogale penicillata)
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