Conservation
The species is considered vulnerable to extinction in Western Australia, but the Red list of the IUCN regards it as data deficient and unable to be correctly assessed.
The Australian flatbacks in the northwest of Kimberley face immediate threats from industrial development and need the world's attention.
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