Editing Plains-wanderer (section)

===Australia===
Plains-wanderers are listed as [[critically endangered species|critically endangered]] under the Australian ''[[Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999]]'' (EPBC Act). Their conservation status varies from state to state within Australia:<ref name=sprat>{{cite web | title=Pedionomus torquatus — Plains-wanderer| website=Species Profile and Threats Database|publisher= [[Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water]], [[Australian Government]]| url=http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=906 | access-date=7 July 2022}}</ref>  

* [[New South Wales]]: Endangered, under the ''[[Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW)]]'' (February 2022 list)
* [[Queensland]]: Critically Endangered, under Nature Conservation (Animals) Regulation 2020 (November 2021 list)
* [[South Australia]]: Endangered, under the ''[[National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972]]'' (January 2020 list)
* [[Victoria, Australia|Victoria]]: Critically Endangered, under the ''[[Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988]]'' (October 2021 list)

A 2018 study ranked it sixth in a list of Australian birds most likely to go extinct.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Geyle | first1=Hayley M. | last2=Woinarski | first2=John C. Z. | last3=Baker | first3=G. Barry | last4=Dickman | first4=Chris R. | last5=Dutson | first5=Guy | last6=Fisher | first6=Diana O. | last7=Ford | first7=Hugh | last8=Holdsworth | first8=Mark | last9=Jones | first9=Menna E. | last10=Kutt | first10=Alex | last11=Legge | first11=Sarah | last12=Leiper | first12=Ian | last13=Loyn | first13=Richard | last14=Murphy | first14=Brett P. | last15=Menkhorst | first15=Peter | last16=Reside | first16=April E. | last17=Ritchie | first17=Euan G. | last18=Roberts | first18=Finley E. | last19=Tingley | first19=Reid | last20=Garnett | first20=Stephen T.|display-authors=2 | title=Quantifying extinction risk and forecasting the number of impending Australian bird and mammal extinctions | journal=[[Pacific Conservation Biology]] | volume=24 | issue=2 | date=20 April 2018 | issn=2204-4604 | doi=10.1071/PC18006 | pages=157–167 | url=https://www.publish.csiro.au/pc/PC18006 | access-date=11 July 2022| doi-access=free | hdl=10536/DRO/DU:30109156 | hdl-access=free }} [https://www.publish.csiro.au/pc/pdf/PC18006 PDF]</ref>