Editing Bendigo (section)

===Parks and gardens===
[[File:Bendigo rosalind.jpg|thumb|[[Rosalind Park]] featuring statuary and flanked by ornate Second Empire-style buildings]]

The central city is skirted by [[Rosalind Park]], a Victorian-style garden featuring statuary and a large [[basalt|blue stone]] [[viaduct]]. The main entrance corner of the park is on the intersection known as [[Charing Cross (Bendigo)|Charing Cross]], formerly the intersection of two main tram lines (now only one). It features a large statue of [[Queen Victoria]].

The Charing Cross junction features the large and ornate [[Alexandra Fountain]] (1881) and is built on top of a wide bridge that spans the [[viaduct]]. The park elevates toward Camp Hill, which features a historic school and a lookout – a former mine [[Shaft mining|poppet head]].

Further from the city is [[Lake Weroona|Lake Weeroona]], a large, ornamental lake adjacent to the Bendigo Creek. The [[Bendigo Botanic Gardens]], which opened in 1869, are further downstream. Major redevelopment of the gardens has taken place in recent years.

The gardens are home to many native species of animals, including brushtailed and ring-tailed possums, ducks, coots, purple swamp hens, microbats (small insect-eating bats), several species of lizards, owls, the tawny frogmouth, and though not native to the area,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Pallin|first1=Nancy|last2=McDonald|first2=Tein|date=January 2013|title=On-ground habitat restoration: Interview with Nancy Pallin|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/emr.12029|journal=Ecological Management & Restoration|volume=14|issue=1|pages=11–19|doi=10.1111/emr.12029|bibcode=2013EcoMR..14...11P |issn=1442-7001}}</ref> a colony of endangered grey-headed flying foxes ([[Grey-headed flying fox|Pteropus poliocephalus]]).<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Roberts|first1=Billie J.|last2=Mo|first2=Matthew|last3=Roache|first3=Mike|last4=Eby|first4=Peggy|date=2020|title=Review of dispersal attempts at flying-fox camps in Australia|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo20043|journal=Australian Journal of Zoology|volume=68|issue=6|pages=254|doi=10.1071/zo20043|issn=0004-959X}}</ref>