My main focus right now is the Manning River turtle, Flaviemys purvisi - I'm fortunate enough to be one of only 2 people in Australia that have this species in captivity. Very little is known about them and their classification has recently been upgraded to Endangered. They are arguably Australia's most attractive freshwater turtle species. A species that definitely needs conservation efforts. Even after the catastrophic events in the Bellinger, Wollumbinia georgesi are still more prolific than Flaviemys purvisi.Ditto, I know all those areas pretty well myself. Except for a spell in Inverell I've lived in the area for about 45 years and yes it is a top part of the world.
No, it was discovered by Arthur Georges I believe...@GBWhite
Is the Wollumbinia Georgesi related to you in any way George?
Obviously it comes from the Mt Warning area. Is it restricted to a certain river around there or all the river systems around The Great Cloud Catcher?
The Fauna Protection Act was legislated in WA in 1950 and was amended to become the Wildlife Conservation Act to include native flora in 1980. So it is now referred to as the “Wildlife Conservation Act 1950”. Anyway, the Wildlife Conservation Regulations 1970 were introduced under the act and I think that was when they began to enforce no keeping (but I don’t know for certain as I have not got a copy of these regs. Although I have waded through the Act, it was too long ago).Just curious Bluetongue1 but you seem to know a bit about it, I left WA as a teenager in 1960 and way back then the keeping of native animals including reptiles as pets was quite popular and encouraged in some schools, it was seen by its supporters as educational and better than the redneck attitude of killing snakes on sight and treating most animals as pests to be eradicated. It was not regulated in any way despite the fact even bicycles were licensed in those days. ...
It is important to realise that there is a difference between the regulations and how they are enforced. Yes, WA regs are restrictive compared to other states (except Tasmania) and compared to other animal groups kept as pets. However, there is no need for the stranglehold they have put on additions to our keeping lists. Six animals every five years if all goes well… What is the point to stringing it out like that? They should have allowed animals such as Varanus glauerti to be collected and kept by now, for as Yellowtail pointed out they are particularly vulnerable to decimation by cane toads. There is far too much personal influence by certain individuals at work here.Ah okay I see. Still I feel like the rest of Australia can keep reptiles fine and there hasn't really been a problem it's just WA, and I can understand why they wouldn't want reptiles to be kept as pets because they are wild animals but at the same time there are already ones that are captive bred in other states I guess it's just if they escaped their enclosure or something that would be the problem but surly if that happened the bearded dragons I mean they would be just like the dwarf ones and eat the same things ect... but anyways, lol sorry I'm just putting my thoughts about it online because it was bothering me. And a rant lol. but Thank you for enlightening me about it
@GBWhite
Where does the Wollumbinia fit in to all of this? I thought the name would only be associated within a tight border around Wollumbin (Mt Warning).
Are you talking about the Australian Biodiversity Record? 2009 (No 1) ISSN 1325-2992 January, 2009 - Some Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Considerations on the Class Reptilia in Australia. A New Species of Freshwater Turtle in the Genus Wollumbinia Wells 2007 (Reptilia: Chelidae) from Eastern Australia. By Richard W. Wells.To tell the truth I don't really know. I can't find his 2007 paper
@GBWhite Is this what you were after??
http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Articles/Wells_2007c.pdf
@GBWhite
Where does the Wollumbinia fit in to all of this? I thought the name would only be associated within a tight border around Wollumbin (Mt Warning).
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