Guy Fawkes River National Park
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IUCN Category Ib (Wilderness Area)
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| Nearest town/city | Armidale |
| Coordinates | 29°57′47″S 152°14′00″E / 29.96306°S 152.2333333°ECoordinates: 29°57′47″S 152°14′00″E / 29.96306°S 152.2333333°E |
| Area | 664 km2 (256 sq mi) |
| Established | 1972 |
| Managing authorities | NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service |
| Official site | http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au |
Guy Fawkes River National Park is on Waterfall Way near Ebor, New South Wales, 50 kilometres west of Dorrigo and 80 km north-east of Armidale in Australia. The park is approximately 560 km north of Sydney.
This National Park has over 40 different vegetation communities, 28 threatened plant species, 24 threatened fauna species and significant areas of old growth forest protected within the park. The Guy Fawkes River plunges off the Northern Tablelands at the Ebor Falls. There are spectacular examples of valley and rugged river gorges including the deeply incised Guy Fawkes River Valley along the line of an ancient fault through the park. The rugged gorges of the Aberfoyle, Sara and Henry Rivers also run through the park.
[edit] History
Brumbies have lived in this park since the 1930s with many of them having Saladin ancestry and now reflecting this in their buckskin and palomino coat colours. In October 2000, over 600 brumbies in the Guy Fawkes River National Park were shot and killed from a helicopter during a very controversial New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service cull.[1] Since the campaign began to remove horses from there over 400 have been passively trapped, taken from the park, and 200 of these have been re-homed.[2]
In the 1970s the Bicentennial National Trail was plotted to run along the western side of Guy Fawkes River on what is a Travelling Stock Route.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Guy Fawkes Heritage Horse Association Inc. Retrieved 2009-1-7
- ^ The Land Magazine, p.3, 19 June 2008
- ^ NSW Wilderness Index Retrieved on 8 December 2008
