Conservation Reserves Management Strategy 2003 - Parks Victoria

FIGURE 7NUMBER OF CONSERVATION RESERVES BY THREATENED FAUNA CLASSNo. of Conservation Reserves500450400350300250200150100500NCRNFRHCFR12129130 1354 619219 3 21 11 - 6 species 7 - 12 species 13 - 19 species 20 - 25 species 26 - 68 speciesNo. of threatened fauna speciesThreatened fauna species have been recorded from 562 Conservation Reserves (21% of reserves).Natural Features Reserves have more than twice as many reserves with threatened fauna recordsthan Nature Conservation Reserves and over 15 times as many reserves with threatened faunarecords than Historical and Cultural Reserves (Table 10).However, Nature Conservation Reserves have a higher percentage of reserves with threatened fauna(43% of reserves) than both Historical and Cultural Reserves (22% of reserves) and Natural FeaturesReserves (17% of reserves).TABLE 10NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF CONSERVATION RESERVES IN EACH CATEGORY WITHTHREATENED FAUNA RECORDSRESERVE CATEGORYNO. RESERVES WITH THREATENED FAUNARECORDS% OF ALL RESERVESNCR 166 6NFR 372 14HCFR 24 1Total 562 20Highest Priority threatened fauna species have been determined by DSE as those species consideredto be of highest priority for conservation management in Victorian bioregions (NRE 1999). Only 118reserves have records of highest priority fauna species, these reserves are in all districts, except City& Waterways (Table 11). Murray Central district has the highest number of reserves with HighestPriority fauna, and the highest number of records, while Mallee district has the greatest number ofHighest Priority fauna species.23