They include the mountain pygmy possum (genus Burramys) and the alpine grasshopper (Kosciuscola).
The zoo has had success breeding the extremely rare mountain pygmy possum, the koala, the brush-tailed bettong, and the parma wallaby.
The mountain pygmy possum of Australia is being affected by warmer winters, emerging from hibernation before its prey, the bogong moth, and often dying of starvation.
Among those singled out as vulnerable are the Gelada baboon in Ethiopia; the monarch butterfly, which spends winters in Mexico; the Australian mountain pygmy possum; the northern spruce in New York State; and the spoonbilled sandpiper, which breeds in the far northeastern reaches of Russia.
Burramys parvus, the mountain pygmy possum, is endemic to the alpine areas of Australia and restricted to three mountain ranges (the Mt Higginbotham-Loch/Bogong High Plains, Mt Kosciuszko and Mt Buller) and is considered critically endangered by the IUCN.
The most distinctive is the high-mountain pygmy tarsier (T. pumilus).
The first 10 mammal species identified for priority action are the numbat, mala, mountain pygmy-possum, greater bilby, golden bandicoot, brush-tailed rabbit-rat, eastern bettong, western quoll, Kangaroo Island dunnart and eastern barred bandicoot.
PYGMY LUSH Mount Hope Lovitt.
Stephen is one of the Batwa, the "Pygmy people" indigenous to these mountain slopes.
The surrounding environment is habitat for other endangered species such as the pygmy possum, the broad-toothed rat, the mountain she-oak skink and the guthega skink.
