Little-Desert-Nationalpark
The Little Desert National Park (English Little Desert National Park ) is located in the Australian state of Victoria, about 375 kilometers west of Melbourne. He now has a total area of 1,320 km ². By their nature, the Little Desert ( Little Desert ) can not be classified as true desert regardless of their name.
This national park was established in 1968 with an area of only 9.45 km ² in the Little Desert. It is thus occurring there and preserved in its original vegetation of Mallee Eucalyptus are protected. The area is also rich in wild flowers and retreat of some endangered species.
This happened after the State Government of Victoria made known that it intended 800 km ² of surrounding and unused desert land for agricultural purposes to sell. The resistance spot against this sales plan was strong and quickly gained nationwide support. Although the state government remained unmoved whether these protests, but eventually they settled in view of the inefficiency of the project convincing. Although the Small desert has just as much annual rainfall as the surrounding agricultural land, is, however, from tiefreichendem sandy soil, which the water can save a lot worse. For agriculture, this area was therefore poorly suited, and there was no prospect of acceptable selling prices. Was allowed to convince them that the little desert was in its original form of a higher value. So in December 1969 the National Park 353 km ² area has been added. As a result, the parking area increased to 1988 to its present size.
The Little Desert National Park is divided into three regions, a western, a central and an eastern area. The annual rainfall is between 400 mm and 600 mm in the northeast to the southwest. The desert is in the individual areas from quite different soil formations which have enabled various types of vegetation zones. Here live about 670 different species of plants, which account for about a fifth of Victoria's biodiversity. Moreover, one can encounter in this area over 220 different bird species. The best time to visit the National Park is the period from August to October in the full blossoming flora.
Alfred | Alpine | Barmah | Baw Baw | Brisbane Ranges | Burrowa - Pine Mountain | Chiltern - Mount Pilot | Churchill | Cobboboonee | Coopracambra | Croajingolong | Dandenong Ranges | Errinundra | French Iceland | Grampians | Great Otway | Greater Bendigo | Gunbower | Hattah - Kulkyne | Heathcote - Graytown | Kinglake | Lake Eildon | Lind | Little Desert | Lower Glenelg | Lower Goulburn | Mitchell River | Mornington Peninsula | Morwell | Mount Buffalo | Mount Eccles | Mount Richmond | Murray - Sunset | organ Pipes | Point Nepean | Port Campbell | Snowy River | St. Arnaud Range | Tarra Bulga - | Terrick Terrick | The Lakes | Warby - Ovens | Wilsons Promontory | Wyperfeld | Yarra Ranges
- National Park in Australia and Oceania
- National Park in Victoria