Yengo National Park
| Yengo National Park NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service | |
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| Website | Yengo National Park |
| See also | Protected areas of New South Wales |
The Yengo National Park is a
The Yengo National Park is one of the eight protected areas that, in 2000, was inscribed to form part of the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Greater Blue Mountains Area.[5] The Yengo National Park is the most north–easterly of the eight protected areas within the World Heritage Site. The national park forms part of the Great Dividing Range.
Features
The
The Bucketty community asked NPWS to recognise their custodianship of the place and in early 2000, the community, together with the NPWS, developed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly manage the site.
Access to Yengo National Park is via Yengo Creek Road off the
The
Bushfires of 2019/2020
In the summer of 2019/2020, Yengo National Park was engulfed in the largest bushfire from a single ignition point that Australia has known; this fire became known as the Gospers Mountain Fire.[7] Nearly all the national park was burnt.[8]
Wildlife
This is a place of great biodiversity. The park is home to over 50 species of mammals, such as wombats, wallaroos, koalas and gliding possums and over 200 species of birds.[9]
See also
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Yengo National Park (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b c "Yengo National Park: Park management". Office of Environment and Heritage. Government of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ "Yengo National Park: How to get there". Office of Environment and Heritage. Government of New South Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ "Yengo National Park topographic map, elevation, relief". topographic-map.com. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ^ "Greater Blue Mountains Area". World Heritage List. UNESCO. 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-74232-156-1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 March 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2014.)
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help - ^ Moir, Harriet Alexander, Nick (20 December 2019). "'The monster': a short history of Australia's biggest forest fire". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "'Remarkable' behaviour: Experts stunned by photo of lyrebirds uniting under bushfire threat". www.abc.net.au. 29 January 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ "Yengo National Park | Learn more". NSW National Parks. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
External links
- "History of the Yengo National Park". Colong Foundation for Wilderness.
- Yengo National Park, Parr State Conservation Area, and Finchley Aboriginal Area: Plan of Management (PDF) (PDF). )
- Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area: Strategic Plan (PDF) (PDF). ISBN 978-1-74122-960-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 June 2009.)
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