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Conservation

Conservation status

Occurs in abundance in most places, although programmes are in action to protect the Australian populations.

Threats

Logging and forest fires in Australia, and overgrowing by Lantana and grazing by goats are a treat on some Pacific islands.

Trends

Population are mostly stable though declining in Australia and increasing in new habitats in Hawaii, Costa Rica and Jamaica where it is an invasive species.