Yabbie crayfish  (Cherax destructor)

Species information

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Threats

Degradation of native vegetation and water pollution as a result of fertiliser and insecticide run-off from agricultural farms, as well as increase predation and competition from introduced non-native species put pressure on both the yabbie’s ecosystem and the yabbie itself (4).

Conservation

The Australian Fisheries Management Act of 1994 designated the yabbie’s ecosystem as an Endangered Ecological Community, requiring vegetation management, run-off control and extensive surveying, and without continued conservation efforts is under threat of irreversible degradation (4).

View information on this species at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
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