in north queensland, the sub-species lives at over 700 m above sea level. there are 13 different populations in three places where this glider lives in north queensland. one population lives on mount windsor tableland, another on mount carbine tableland, and the third lives in a linear habitat from atherton to kirrama on the atherton tableland. these three populations together have about 6000 individual gliders. with their habitat in danger, the yellow-bellied glider is classified as uncommon to rare and is named vulnerable to the tropics. this species is more widespread in southern queensland, nsw and victoria.