Tarong National Park

Tarong National Park
Swallow Parakeet ( Lathamus discolor )
Coordinates: 26 ° 50 ′ 14.9 ″  S , 151 ° 50 ′ 45.6 ″  O
Location:	Queensland , Australia
Specialty:	Rain and eucalyptus forest
Next city:	30 kilometer (s) from Kingaroy
Surface:	15.2 km²
Founding:	1995

The Tarong National Park (English Tarong National Park ) is a 15 square kilometer national park in Queensland , Australia .

location

It is located in the Wide Bay-Burnett region in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast about 135 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and 196 kilometers southwest of Hervey Bay . The nearest town is Kingaroy , from here the park can be reached via the Kingaroy-Booyar Road heading south. After about 30 kilometers you pass the national park at the height of the town of the same name Tarong . Immediately to the east is the Tarong coal-fired power station . Except for a few unpaved forest roads, there are neither publicly accessible paths nor visitor facilities.

The national parks The Palms , Pidna and Bunya Mountains are in the vicinity .

Flora and fauna

The national park protects araucaria rainforest up to 570 meters high . This ecosystem, which was widespread before the colonization by the Europeans, thrives primarily on nutrient-rich soils and has therefore been cleared over large areas for agricultural purposes and for monocultures of New Guinea araucarias ( Araucaria cunninghamii ). Today, it is estimated that only 10 to 30 percent have been preserved, before that only small parts in protected areas such as national parks.

The second ecosystem worth protecting in the Tarong National Park is the open eucalyptus forest made up of narrow-leaved ironbark ( Eucalyptus crebra ) with undergrowth made up of acacia , hoveas and coral diamond species.

So far in the park nine worth protecting animal species have been identified, such as the Black-breasted Laufhühnchen ( Turnix melanogaster ), the Gray Goshawk ( Accipiter novaehollandiae ), the swift parrot ( Lathamus discolor ), the Green thighed Frog ( Litoria brevipalmata ) and the gold lace bat ( Kerivoula papuensis ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
2. ↑ Australian Government - CAPAD 1997 ( MS Excel ; 93 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Tarong National Park - Management Plan 2011 (PDF; 2.1 MB), Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
4. ↑ OSM - Tarong National Park , OpenStreetMap , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
5. ↑ Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012.