Editing Border Ranges National Park

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| name                   = Border Ranges National Park
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| image                  = Brindle Creek crop.png
| caption                = Brindle Creek in the Border Ranges National Park is an impressive rainforest stream.
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| established            = {{start date|1979|6|8|df=y}}
| established_footnotes  = <ref name=oeh>{{cite web|url=http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/NationalParks/parkManagement.aspx?id=N0050|title=Border Ranges National Park: Park management|work=[[National Parks and Wildlife Service (New South Wales)|NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service]]|publisher=[[Government of New South Wales]]}}</ref>
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| managing_authorities   = [[National Parks and Wildlife Service (New South Wales)|NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service]]
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The '''Border Ranges National Park''' is a [[state park|protected]] [[national park]] that is located in the [[Northern Rivers]] region of [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]]. A small portion of the national park is also located in [[South East Queensland]]. The {{convert|31729|ha|adj=on}} park is situated approximately {{convert|150|km}} south of [[Brisbane]], north of {{NSWcity|Kyogle}}.<ref name=oeh/>

The park is part of the Shield Volcano Group [[World Heritage Site]] [[Gondwana Rainforests of Australia]] inscribed in 1986<ref name="ausgovdep">{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/world/gondwana/index.html |title=Gondwana Rainforests of Australia |access-date=7 September 2014|work=[[Department of the Environment (Australia)|Department of the Environment]]|publisher=[[Australian Government]] }}</ref> and added to the [[Australian National Heritage List]] in 2007.<ref name=anhl>{{cite web|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=105135|title=Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, Lismore, NSW, Australia|work=Australian Heritage Database: [[Department of the Environment (Australia)|Department of the Environment]]|date=2014|access-date=7 September 2014|publisher=[[Australian Government]]}}</ref>

==Geology==
The Border Ranges region, which includes the [[McPherson Range]], [[Tweed Range]], Lamington Plateau and Levers Plateau, were formed from the erosion of the [[Tweed Volcano]] over many years. A number of [[volcanic plug]]s remain in the Border Ranges National Park.<ref name="discover"/> Notable for extensive stands of ''[[Nothofagus moorei]]'' (Antarctic beech), the park offers a {{convert|64|km}} gravel road circuit through sub tropical, cool and warm [[temperate rainforest]] types. The area was extensively logged during the 20th century, providing timber to a number of nearby sawmills.<ref name="discover"/> The [[Lions Road]] and the [[Sydney–Brisbane rail corridor]] pass through the park at its narrow middle section.

==Flora and fauna==
Border Ranges and [[Lamington National Park]] are recognised as a [[biodiversity]] hotspot, containing a mixture of northern and southern flora species (the McPherson-Macleay overlap) with a number of [[Endemic (ecology)|endemic]], rare and endangered species. Fauna is similarly diverse and species like the [[Hastings River mouse]], have been rediscovered in the park in recent years.<ref>[http://www.bigvolcano.com.au/stories/mouse/index.html Big Volcano Visitor Guide, reprint of article by David Charley in ''Over The Fence'', the Newsletter of the Northern Rivers Region, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Newsletter No.6, April 2000].</ref>
[[File:Brindle Creek Border Ranges National Park.jpg|thumb|right|A diverse set of [[subtropical]] [[rainforest]] [[flora]] is preserved along Brindle Creek.]]

Lower areas of the park contain eucalypt forests that provide habitat for [[eastern grey kangaroo]]s, [[red-necked wallaby|red-necked wallabies]] and [[koala]]s.<ref name="discover">{{cite book |title=Discover Australia's National Parks |last=Hema Maps |year=1997 |publisher=[[Random House]] Australia |location=Milsons Point, New South Wales |isbn=1-875992-47-2 |pages=106–107 }}</ref> [[Pademelon]]s and [[potoroo]] are also found in the park as well as a diverse array of birdlife including the rare [[Albert's lyrebird]].<ref name="discover"/> The park is part of the [[Scenic Rim]] [[Important Bird Area]], identified as such by [[BirdLife International]] because of its importance in the conservation of several species of [[threatened]] birds.<ref name=bli>BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Scenic Rim. Downloaded from {{cite web |url=http://www.birdlife.org |title=BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds |access-date=2014-03-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630122358/http://www.birdlife.org/ |archive-date=30 June 2007 }} on 2011-10-03.</ref>
[[File:Lilly Pilly fruit floating in the creek.jpg|thumb|fruit of [[Syzygium francisii]] in Sawpit Creek, in the Border Ranges National Park. It dropped prodigious quantities of fruit, which floated down stream and collected in beautiful pink rafts, such as this.]]

The Border Ranges contains one of Australia's most diverse range of spider species within its montane rainforests.<ref name="spid">{{cite web |url=https://www.qm.qld.gov.au/features/spiders/#.WTSVXcZ7GEI |title=Spiders |website=Queensland Museum |publisher=The State of Queensland |access-date=30 October 2021 }}</ref>

==Facilities==
Two camp grounds (car/camper and walk-in tent camping only) and a number of picnic areas, some with shelters, water and composting toilets, are available at various points in the rainforest adjacent to the road, and one picnic spot at Blackbutts Lookout, has extensive views to [[Mount Warning]], and of the Tweed Valley, an erosion [[caldera]] which, while broken by the sea on its eastern flank, is considered larger in size than the [[Ngorongoro Crater]] in Tanzania.
[[File:Border Ranges National Park, Australia.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|From a lookout in Border Ranges National Park, NSW Australia looking over the Tweed valley with ''The Pinnacle'' distinctive in the centre right.]]

==See also==
{{portal|New South Wales}}
* [[Protected areas of New South Wales]]
* [[High Conservation Value Old Growth forest]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Border Ranges National Park}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080721031804/http://www2.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/parks.nsf/parkContent/N0050?OpenDocument&ParkKey=N0050&Type=Xo Official site]
* [https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/368 Official UNESCO CERRA Listing ]
* [http://www.bigvolcano.com.au/natural/natparks.htm#Border Brief description of Border Ranges National Park]

{{National Parks of New South Wales}}
{{Northern Rivers region |state=autocollapse}}

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[[Category:National parks of New South Wales]]
[[Category:Protected areas established in 1979]]
[[Category:Gondwana Rainforests of Australia]]
[[Category:1979 establishments in Australia]]
[[Category:Important Bird Areas of New South Wales]]
[[Category:Kyogle Council]]