Tuart Forest National Park

Tuart Forest National Park
Coordinates: 33 ° 33 ′ 7 ″  S , 115 ° 30 ′ 43 ″  E
Location:	Western Australia , Australia
Specialty:	Tuart eucalyptus forests
Next city:	5 km from Capel
Surface:	20 km²
Founding:	1987

The Tuart Forest National Park (English Tuart Forest National Park ) is a 20 square kilometer national park in the southwest of Western Australia , Australia .

location

The park is about 200 kilometers south of Perth . Located between Bunbury and Busselton , runs for a length of 20 kilometers as a narrow strip along the Bussell Highway . Capel , about 5 km away, is the closest larger town.

fauna and Flora

The population of Tuarteukalyptus Eucalyptus gomphocephala in the Tuart Forest National Park is the only one in the world, it has been preserved in large numbers in its original form and environment. Eucalyptus gomphocephala thrives only over limestone and was distributed along the coast in an area of ​​200 kilometers on both sides of Perth. The national park is now home to the largest and tallest specimen of the Tuarteucalyptus. Some Eucalyptus gomphocephala have a stature height of up to 33 meters and a circumference of ten meters.

The Tuart Forest National Park is also home to the last free-living population of the Western Ringtail Possum ( Pseudocheirus peregrinus occidentalis ), a subspecies of the Common Ringbeutler ( Pseudocheirus peregrinus ). They mainly live in the crevices and holes of the old Tuart trees. The densest population of a Kusus species in Western Australia also lives in the area of ​​the national park . But also the brushtail butler , the bush rat ( Rattus fuscipes ), the quenda ( Isoodon obesulus ) and kangaroo species. At least eleven species of birds of prey are native to the park.

Web links

• Official site of the park (English)
• Tuart Forest National Park - Management Strategy 79, 2014 (English; PDF, 5.04 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australia Easy Read - Road and 4WD Atlas . Hema Maps, Brisbane 2007, ISBN 978-1-86500-395-5 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official website of the park. Retrieved January 18, 2016 .