Peroryctes broadbenti

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	PERAMELEMORPHIA	PERAMELIDAE

Scientific Name:

Peroryctes broadbenti

Species Authority:

(Ramsay, 1879)

Common Name/s:

English	–	Giant Bandicoot
French	–	Péramèle Géant

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Endangered A4cd ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s

Leary, T., Wright, D., Hamilton, S., Singadan, R., Menzies, J., Bonaccorso, F., Helgen, K., Seri, L., Allison, A., Aplin, K., Dickman, C. & Salas, L.

Evaluator/s:

Lamoreux, J. & Hilton-Taylor, C. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)

Justification:
Listed as Endangered because of a serious population decline, estimated/projected to be more than 50% within three generations (1 generation or 4 years in the past, and 2 generations/8 years into the future), due to direct exploitation from hunting and to habitat loss with lowland forests in southeastern New Guinea being converted to agriculture.

History:

1996	–	Data Deficient (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)
1994	–	Endangered (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is endemic to the south-eastern lowlands of Papua New Guinea. It is broadly distributed throughout its range but at low densities. It has been recorded from sea level and the upper limit of altitudinal range is probably about 1,000 m asl.
Countries:	Native: Papua New Guinea
Range Map:	(click map to view full version)

Population [top]

Population:	It is rarely encountered and the local abundance is suspected to be naturally low.
Population Trend:	Decreasing

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	The Giant Bandicoot is the largest bandicoot in the world. It occurs in lowland tropical moist forest and gallery forests.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Peroryctes broadbenti is threatened by hunting for food by local people and by habitat loss due to conversion of forest to small-scale agricultural land and commercial agriculture, especially oil palm plantations. Bushmeat has increased substantially in value – this species would sell for 84 Kina in the markets (J. Menzies pers. comm.).

Major Threat(s):

Peroryctes broadbenti is threatened by hunting for food by local people and by habitat loss due to conversion of forest to small-scale agricultural land and commercial agriculture, especially oil palm plantations. Bushmeat has increased substantially in value – this species would sell for 84 Kina in the markets (J. Menzies pers. comm.).

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	This species has not been recorded from any protected areas despite the fact that there are many throughout its range. The protected areas of the Central Province are not well managed, and many villagers access them to seek game and firewood. Thus, this species may be hunted out of the protected areas (L. Salas pers. comm.).

Conservation Actions:

This species has not been recorded from any protected areas despite the fact that there are many throughout its range. The protected areas of the Central Province are not well managed, and many villagers access them to seek game and firewood. Thus, this species may be hunted out of the protected areas (L. Salas pers. comm.).

Citation:	Leary, T., Wright, D., Hamilton, S., Singadan, R., Menzies, J., Bonaccorso, F., Helgen, K., Seri, L., Allison, A., Aplin, K., Dickman, C. & Salas, L. 2008. Peroryctes broadbenti. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 January 2009.
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