Mutawintji-Nationalpark

The Mutawintji National Park is a national park in the north- west of the Australian state of New South Wales, 878 kilometers west-north- west of Sydney and 130 kilometers north-east of Broken Hill.

The wild, bushy Byngnano Range is of colored canyons, water holes and creek beds that are lined with eucalyptus ( Red Gum ). Between the caves and overhangs can be found scattered petroglyphs and rock carvings of the Aborigines.

1979 bought the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife 100 sq. km in the Cotarundee rank and fenced them. Today this is the Mutawindji National Park, which among other the Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby is protected.

Further donations and the extermination of the ( brought in from Europe) fox in reserve ensured the survival of the last population of the Yellow-footed rock kangaroos in New South Wales. Since the lowest level in 1995, the population of the striking subscribed Känguruart has now increased to 300 to 400 animals.

Part of the national park is also Mutawintji Historical Site, one of the most important collections of petroglyphs of the Australian aborigines.

Pictures

Eagle nest in a tree Flindersia

Petroglyphs

Petroglyph of a Brolgakranichs