Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities

19 – Parks Australia monitoring for threatened species^257

Kakadu National ParkSize

1 981 000 ha (19 810 km

2 )

Location

Within the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Ter

ritory of Australia

Dominant vegetation/biome

Ecoregion: Tropical and subtropical grasslands, sava

nnas and shrublands

IBRA: Arnhem Plateau, Darwin Coast and Pine Cree

k

Vegetation: Wetlands, floodplains and mangroves (in

cluding Ramsar wetlands), savanna lowland woodlands a

nd forest,

pockets of rainforest, sandstone shrubland (includin

g EPBC-listed Arnhem Plateau sandstone shrubland compl

ex

ecological community)

EPBC-listed species:Amphibians

Birds

Fishes

Invertebrates

Mammals

Plants

Reptiles

Total

0

12

4

0

10

2

5

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Norfolk Island National Park and Botanic Ga

rdens

Size

The park covers 650 ha in two sections: the Mount Pitt S

ection on Norfolk Island (460 ha) and 190 ha on neighbo

uring

Phillip Island. The Norfolk Island Botanic Garden cover

s 5.5 ha.

Location

Norfolk Island is in the South Pacific Ocean, ~1700 km f

rom Sydney

Dominant vegetation/biome

Ecoregion: Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf f

orests

IBRA: Pacific Subtropical IslandsVegetation: Remnant subtropical rainforest sub-divid

ed into smaller communities of palm and tree fern forest;

hardwood forest; and

Araucaria

-dominated forest.

EPBC-listed species:Amphibian

Bird

Fishes

Invertebrate

Mammal

Plant

Reptile

Total

0

7

0

5

0

45

2

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