Tooloom National Park

Tooloom National Park
Giant hornbeam at Tooloom Scrub
Coordinates: 28 ° 26 ′ 47 ″  S , 152 ° 27 ′ 13 ″  E
Location:	New South Wales , Australia
Specialty:	Gondwana rainforest, eucalyptus forest
Next city:	Hewestsons Mill
Surface:	43.8 km²
Founding:	December 22, 1995
Strangler fig with a hollow trunk
Thorny Yellowwood (Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum) at Tooloom Scrub

The Tooloom National Park is a national park in the far northeast of the Australian state of New South Wales , 616 kilometers north of Sydney , about 50 km southeast of Warwick (Queensland) and about 70 km north-west of Lismore . The name Tooloom is derived from the word Duluhm in the Aboriginal language Bundjalung .

The park has Gondwana rainforests , which have been a World Heritage Site since 1986 and were added to the Australian list of natural monuments in 2007. There are also eucalyptus trees of the species Flooded Gum (Eucalyptus grandis) and Red Gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis).

The wildlife features 10 species of kangaroo and wallaby , including the rare long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus).

The Githabul Aboriginal tribe used to live in the park , with whom a land lease agreement for the use of the area as a national park could be achieved. The Githabul are involved in the management of the park.

Web links

Tooloom National Park . NSW Environment & Heritage Office

Individual evidence

1. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing Pty. Ltd. Archerfield QLD (2007). ISBN 978174193232-4 . P. 29
2. ^ Margeret Sharpe: Macquarie Aboriginal Words . Macquarie Library. Sydney. P. 21. Chapter: Bundjalung
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Tooloom National Park . NSW Environment & Heritage Office