The entire Central Highlands population distribution is confined to a 70 by 80 kilometre area . With 43 % of its known Central Highlands habitat destroyed in the bushfires of February 2009 – large areas of forest around Toolangi , Marysville , Narbethong , Cambarville and Healesville – the species ' status is currently in doubt . Consequently , in December 2012 , David Lindenmayer and Zoos Victoria 's threatened species biologist , Dan Harley , submitted an application to the federal government for a revision of the species status , providing evidence that it should be relisted as critically endangered . The then minister for the environment , Tony Burke , agreed with the nomination and forwarded the application to the scientific committee of the EPBC Act requesting urgent consideration . On 22 April 2015 , it was decided to relist the species as critically endangered
bushfires
Black Saturday bushfires
Leadbeater's possum