Enhancing Biodiversity Hotspots Along Western Queensland Stock ...

RECOMMENDATIONS: Yakka skinks are distributed over a vast area of
Queensland, and to mitigate their threats will require the control of feral predators,
appropriate fire regimes, and the protection of their habitat from road maintenance.
As with other biodiversity hotspots along Boatman Road (sites 14 – 18, pp. 82-90),
the priority actions at this site would be to include this location in the pest control
activities for feral predators implemented by Murweh Shire Council, and to protect
this habitat from any destructive impacts caused by any road works and rabbit
control.
For any future controlled fires at this site, it is recommended that they be of low
intensity, and that any mounds of timber/plant material are unburnt as they are used
as habitat by yakka skink.
It is also strongly recommend that a population survey of yakka skinks be undertaken
to map current populations, as isolated healthy populations may need more intensive
protection.
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