Moresby Range National Park

Moresby Range is a national park in the Cassowary Coast Region in Far North Queensland, Australia,<ref>Template:Cite QPN</ref> Template:Convert northwest of Brisbane. It is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of lowland tropical rainforest birds.<ref>BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Coastal Wet Tropics. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org Template:Webarchive on 2011-12-16.</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The national park is located on the coast south of the mouth of the Johnstone River a few kilometres from Innisfail in the Cassowary Coast Region. The range reaches elevations of around Template:Convert above sea level. It belongs to the Wet Tropics biogregion and lies within the Johnstone River water catchment.<ref name="wetlands"/> About 8% of the park is classed as wetlands.<ref name="wetlands">Template:Cite web</ref>

The Spectacled flying fox is the only rare or threatened species to have been identified in the park.<ref name="raorth">Template:Cite web</ref> In 2010, five cassowaries which inhabit the park were tagged with GPS dataloggers with VHF transmitters to enable monitoring of their movement.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• Protected areas of Queensland

References

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