REIMBURSING THE FUTURE:

An evaluation of motivational, voluntary, price-based, property-right, and regulatory incentives for the conservation of biodiversity

PART 2 - Appendices

A report by M.D. Young, N. Gunningham, J. Elix, J. Lambert, B. Howard, P. Grabosky and E. McCrone
Prepared by CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, the Australian Centre for Environmental Law, and Community Solutions
January 1996

Biodiversity Series, Paper No. 9
Biodiversity Unit

Table 2.6.1 Species numbers, selected vertebrate and invertebrate groups, Wet Tropics region

                        No. species in    No. endemic    No. endemic   % of Australian   
Group                   Wet Tropics WHA   species        subspecies    species           

Mammals (excluding       58               11              8            36% of mammals    
bats)                                                                  30% of            
                                                                       marsupials        

Bats                     36                                            58%               

Birds                   370               13             10            50%               

Frogs                    53               21                           25%               

Reptiles                170               22                           23%               

Fish                     69                3                           37%               

Butterflies             +200+             *?10?*                       60%

Source: RCSQ 1994, except * reported in RCSQ, 1986 but not in 1994 revision