People wishing to undertake research on threatened wildlife and other protected wildlife in Western Australia require licences issued pursuant to the Wildlife Conservation Act 1950. Administration of these requirements is coordinated by the Department's Species and Communities Branch.

The Department's Species and Communities Branch is also custodian of databases providing distributional data on threatened taxa. This information is particularly useful to persons planning developments or other activities in areas that may impinge on threatened wildlife, or who wish to study field populations. Administrative charges are imposed for provision of information from these databases.

DEC’s Species and Communities Branch provides a service (free to DEC staff and not-for-profit organisations) that allows you to find out if there are any Threatened Fauna, Declared Rare Flora (DRF) or Threatened Ecological Communities (TEC’s) at a particular location you are working at or planning to visit. The service also covers Priority Flora and Fauna species and some Priority Ecological Communities. Download Flora, Fauna and Ecological Community Data Searches (  66.54 Kb)

For fauna research licensing and database inquiries, contact:

Norm Press
Admin Officer Fauna,
DEC Nature Protection Branch
Locked Bag 104,
Bentley Delivery Centre,
WA 6983,
Australia
Telephone: +61 8 9334 0434
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