Newly protected Edgbaston Reserve in Queensland home to 37 species found nowhere else in the world

Once a cattle station, this land in outback Queensland is also home to more than three dozen unique species found nowhere else in the world.

Unique species of fish, snails, and crustaceans have existed on this isolated property since the dinosaur age when it was deep under water as part of the Eromanga Sea.

Edgbaston Reserve, 140 kilometres north-east of Longreach, is an ecological site of “global importance”, which has just been granted special protection by the state government.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-03/edgbaston-reserve-western-queensland-37-endemic-species/103897926