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Sharon and I ventured out to a well known area in the Wimmera of western Victoria to find the Olive legless lizard - Delma inorata. This beautiful legless lizard is rarely encountered, but is often mistaken for a juvenile brown snake and is killed as a result. As its name suggests, the Olive legless lizard is olive in color with a yellow underside and each scale is edged with black. With a SVL (snout to vent length) of around 13cm, the tail of the legless lizard is up to four times the length of the body. It survives in grassy woodland and native grassland between s.e South Australia to the Darling Downs of s.e Queensland.

In Victoria, Native Tussock Grasslands cover just 0.6% of their previous extent. In the Victorian Volcanic Plains 8 of 56 mammal species are extinct and another 11 are in severe decline, occupying less than 10% of their former range.

The Native Grasslands of Victoria have been listed as Critically Endangered! Read more....

Direct quote- VNPA Grassland clearing trend.