Anglesea Heath

The Anglesea Heath ( German: Anglesea Heath ) is a 72 km ² large nature reserve, a heath with scrub and open forests in Victoria, in southeastern Australia. The reserve is located 100 km south-west of Melbourne. The town of Anglesea is located in the south of this region, which can be reached from the Great Ocean Road. Not protected are 5 km ², on which the power plant Anglesea Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals and the associated coal mine are.

Conservation

The nature reserve has been entered in the Australian National Heritage List because of its biological diversity and significance on 30 June 1992. This landscape is compared with the 200 km existing landscape of the Grampians Mountains.

67 km ² are under management of state conservation organization, and Victoria Park. The nature reserve is one of the richest landscapes of Victoria, for there grow 620 different plant species, including 80 species of orchids, of which 8 are rare and endemic 2. There are a quarter of the orchid species that grow in Victoria. In the field about 100 bird and 29 mammal species have been recorded.