Editing Werrikimbe National Park (section)

==Flora and fauna==
There is a great variety of vegetation here, depending on rainfall and altitude: [[eucalypt]] [[woodland]]s, [[Ceratopetalum apetalum|coachwoods]], [[Atherosperma|southern sassafras]], [[Dendrocnide|stinging trees]], [[Philotheca myoporoides|long-leaf waxflowers]] and [[Sloanea woollsii|yellow carabeens]] with their flying buttressed trunks.  Werrikimbe is home to the rare plants such as ''[[Chiloglottis]]'' bird orchids,<ref>Threatened Species of the New England Tablelands & NW Slopes of NSW, NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, 2003, {{ISBN|0-7313-6673-5}}</ref> downy guinea flowers and [[Thismia|fairy lanterns]]. These forests also contain the only examples of [[Leptopteris fraseri|filmy king fern]] known to occur in northern New South Wales.  The [[Nothofagus moorei|Antarctic beech]] forest, found at the end of the North Plateau Road, is estimated to be up to 1,000 years old and forms the largest compact southern beech forest in existence.<ref>''Reader's Digest Guide to Australian Places'', Reader's Digest, Sydney</ref> The threatened ''parva'' subspecies of [[Callitris oblonga|pygmy cypress pine]] occurs on the eastern edge of the [[Northern Tablelands]] in the park.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au/tsprofile/profile.aspx?id=10132|title=Threatened Species|work=Office of Environment and Heritage|publisher=[[Government of New South Wales]]|access-date=13 March 2009 }}</ref>

Werrikimbe is the habitat of at least 22 threatened animal species. The rare [[Hastings River mouse]] was considered to be extinct until rediscovered in the park in 1981; it frequents the heathlands and open forest areas near streams.  The [[Australian brushturkey]], [[koala]], [[eastern whipbird]], [[powerful owl]], [[gliding possum|gliders]], [[quoll]]s and [[lyrebird]]s may be seen.  The park has been identified as an [[Important Bird Area]] (IBA) by [[BirdLife International]] because it contains one of only five known populations of [[rufous scrub-bird]]s.  It also supports [[flame robin|flame]] and [[pale-yellow robin]]s, [[paradise riflebird]]s, [[green catbird]]s, [[regent bowerbird]]s and [[Australian logrunner]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |title=IBA: Werrikimbe |access-date=24 November 2011|work=Birdata|publisher=Birds Australia }}</ref>