Forest
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State
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Image
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Notable features
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Alpine National Park
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Victoria
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Extensive mountain ash and snowgum forests.
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D'Aguilar National Park
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Queensland
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Large nature reserve on the western boundary of the City of Brisbane, bordering on the
Mount Coot-tha Reserve, that supports a large variety of native plants and animals.
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Brown Mountain forest
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Victoria
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Located in
East Gippsland, Victoria, abuts the
Errinundra National Park, and is notable for containing large tracts of old growth forest, including over fifty mountain ash trees estimated to be over 300 years old. The eucalypt forest provides key habitat for rare and threatened species such as the
powerful owl, the
spotted quoll, mainland Australia's largest marsupial carnivore, and the
long-footed potoroo, Victoria's rarest marsupial. Campaigns to protect the area from logging led to blockades and non-violent direct action in 1990 and 2009.
[4]
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Central Highlands (Victoria)
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Victoria
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Contain cool
temperate rainforests; dominated by
myrtle beech and
southern sassafras, with an understorey of ferns and mosses. They may also contain
eucalypt trees and
Australian blackwood. Eastern forests of the Central Highlands such as the
Toolangi State Forest and Melbourne's forested water catchments provide habitat for the threatened
Leadbeater's possum.
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Cumberland Plain Woodland
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New South Wales
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Found in scattered forms in the
Greater Western Sydney area, it is made up of dry
sclerophyll woodlands and forests, reminiscent of the
Mediterranean forests, totaling only around 6400 hectares. Grey Box (
Eucalyptus moluccana) and Forest Red Gum (
Eucalyptus tereticornis) dominate the woodland.
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Wet Tropics Rainforest
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Queensland
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Tropical
rainforest near
Tropical North Queensland. At around 1200 square kilometres the Wet Tropics Rainforest is a part of
Australia's largest contiguous area of rainforest. Contains 30% of
frog,
marsupial and
reptile species in Australia, and 65% of Australia's
bat and
butterfly species. 20% of
bird species in the country can be found in this area including the threatened
cassowary. Added to the World Heritage List in 1988. This followed campaigning by environmentalists, including blockades against logging and road construction earlier in the decade.
[4]
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Disappointment Reference Area
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Victoria
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Extensive mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forest with dense treeferns along many creeks. Prior to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, which burnt the majority of the reference area, this forest has not been burned since the 1700s, making many of the trees ~300 years old.
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Errinundra forests
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Victoria
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The
Errinundra National Park in East Gippland contains the largest remaining cool temperate rainforests in Victoria. These
old growth forests harbour many rare and threatened species of flora and fauna, including
powerful owls,
tiger quolls and
long-footed potoroos.
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Gloucester National Park
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Western Australia
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Karri eucalyptus forests that includes the
Gloucester Tree,
Western Australia's most famous karri tree (pictured)
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Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
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New South Wales
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Remnants of
Gondwanaland forests. Pictured is
Point Lookout, New England National Park, NSW.
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Goolengook
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Victoria
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Old growth cool temperate rainforest in Eastern Victoria.
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Great Otway National Park
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Victoria
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Diverse range of landscapes and vegetation types including some old growth eucalyptus forest.
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Karawatha Forest
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Queensland
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Protected bushland at
Karawatha, Queensland.
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Kinglake National Park
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Victoria
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While
much of the forest area was logged in the early part of the 20th century, many old growth trees remain.
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Lake Mountain
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Victoria
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Old growth mountain ash and snowgum forests, including habitat for the threatened
Leadbeater's possum.
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Lamington National Park
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Queensland/New South Wales
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Part
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia of the
World Heritage site on the
Queensland/
New South Wales border. One of the largest upland
subtropical rainforest remnants in the world and the most northern
southern beech cool temperate rainforest in Australia.
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Leard State Forest
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New South Wales
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The biggest remnant of natural bushland on the Liverpool Plains in north-west NSW and the most extensive and intact stand of the nationally listed critically endangered box-gum woodland remaining in Australia. It is habitat for 34 critically endangered species and several endangered ecological communities.
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Limpinwood Nature Reserve
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New South Wales
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World Heritage listed wilderness region of 26 km2 situated in the Border ranges of north eastern
New South Wales. Vegetation is primarily
sub-tropical
rain forest with some wet
sclerophyll forest.
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Mount Buffalo National Park
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Victoria
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Over 550 native species occur; the most significant vegetation communities are the alpine and sub-alpine communities. The lower slopes have communities of mixed gum and peppermint, including the bogong gum,
Eucalyptus chapmaniana. These grade into pure stands of alpine ash,
Eucalyptus delegatensis around 1100 metres elevation, and subalpine woodland of snow gum,
Eucalyptus pauciflora above 1300 metres. Numerous endemic plant species.
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Mount Warning National Park
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Queensland
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Included in the
UNESCO World Heritage Listings in 1986. Extensive subtropical rainforest remnants.
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Mount Read (Tasmania)
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Tasmania
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Despite extensive historic mining and human activity on its slopes, Mount Read has unique and significant stands of rare
Huon pine forests on its slopes.
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Pilliga forest
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New South Wales
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Australia's largest inland native forest. Covering over 450,000 hectares.
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Sherbrooke Forest
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Victoria
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Wet
sclerophyll forest with the dominant tree species being the mountain ash,
Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest
flowering plant in the world. The forest has recovered well from logging that occurred from the mid-19th century until 1930. Sherbrooke Forest is famous for its population of
superb lyrebirds.
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Springbrook National Park
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Queensland
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Part of the
World Heritage site
Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves. Rainforest and eucalypt forest.
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Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest
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New South Wales
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The main canopy trees are turpentine (
Syncarpia glomulifera), grey ironbark (
Eucalyptus paniculata), narrow-leaved ironbark (
Eucalyptus crebra) and red ironbark. Very few remnants of Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest remain.
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Tarkine
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Tasmania
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Extensive stands of eucalypt forest and cool temperate rainforest that includes ancient
myrtle beech trees. Conservationists have intermittently blockaded logging in the forest since the mid-1990s.
[4]
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Tarra-Bulga National Park
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Victoria
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Remnant cool temperate rainforest in the Stzelecki Ranges. The deeply incised river valleys of the park are dominated by wet sclerophyll tall open forest of mountain ash (
Eucalyptus regnans), with an understorey of blackwood (
Acacia melanoxylon), hazel pomaderris (
Pomaderris aspera) and tree ferns (
Dicksonia antarctica and
Cyathea australis). Pockets of the park feature cool temperate rainforest, including myrtle beech (
Nothofagus cunninghamii).
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Tuart Forest National Park
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Western Australia
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Contains rare old growth Tuart (
Eucalyptus gomphocephala) forest.
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Walpole-Nornalup National Park
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Western Australia
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Contains rare old growth giant Tingle eucalypt forest known as "The Valley of the Giants".
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Wielangta forest
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Tasmania
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Part of remnant glacial refugia forest and contains blue gum eucalypt forest and pockets of cool temperate
rainforest. The forest is a key habitat of rare and threatened species, including the
Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle,
swift parrot,
broad-toothed stag beetle,
spotted-tail quoll and
eastern barred bandicoot. A rare orchid (Corunastylis nuda) has also been discovered in the forest.
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Wollemi National Park
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New South Wales
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Contains the only known wild specimens of the
Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis), a species thought to have become extinct approximately thirty million years ago, but discovered alive in three small stands in 1994.
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