|Scientific Name:||Macropus giganteus| |Species
Authority:||Shaw, 1790| |Red List Category & Criteria:||Least
Concern ver 3.1| |Assessor/s:||Munny, P., Menkhorst, P. &
Winter, J.| |Reviewer/s:||Lamoreux, J. & Hilton-Taylor, C.
(Global Mammal Assessment Team)| Listed as Least Concern in view
of its wide distribution, large population, occurrence in a
number of protected areas, lack of major threats, and because it
is not in decline. |Range Description:||This species is endemic
to eastern mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania
(introduced to Maria Island). On the mainland it ranges
extensively from north-eastern Queensland (Cape York Peninsula)
to south-eastern South Australia (including Fraser Island). It
ranges in elevation from sea level to subalpine areas. The
subspecies Macropus giganteus tasmaniensis is restricted to
Eastern Tasmania (Barker and Caughley 1990).| |Range Map:||Click
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|Population:||Mainland populations are abundant (Coulson 2008);
these p