Savage-River-Nationalpark

The Savage River National Park (English: Savage River National Park ) is a reserve on the Australian island of Tasmania. It is located about 233 km north- west of Hobart, has an area of nearly 18,000 ha and was placed under protection in 1999.

General

The Savage River National Park was established as part of the Regional Forestry Agreement to make the area undisturbed and untouched. Therefore, there is no building for visitors in the park and no roads leading into the park. Only a few ski tracks leading around the park and allow limited access to this ecosystem. The park is approximately 5% of the Tarkine, one of the largest areas of temperate rainforest in Australia.

Landscape

The eastern edge of the park is the Baretop Ridge, a low mountain range.

The National Park represents an unfragmented and intact wilderness where the ecological processes can run largely unaffected by human influences. It has a high diversity of native species, with only minor impairments.

On the western edge of the parks spring from - eponymous - Savage River, which flows to the southwest, and the Lyons River, which takes its way north. In the center of the Keith River takes its beginning and also flows to the north. Are the sources of the Heazlewood River, parallel to the Savage River, flows south-west on the southern boundary of the park.

Plant and animal world

The richness of the flora of the park is reflected, for example, in the variety of species of lower plants resist: There were among others 239 species mosses, including 93 mosses and 146 liverworts found.

22 mammal species were recorded in the park, including but not limited the Tasmanian devil, the Raubbeutlerart Antechinus swainsonii and the Australian wide-tooth rat, and five species of bats.

Among the 62 documented species of birds are especially notable, the wedge -tailed eagle, the Swift Parrot and the White brewing hawk.

Although the park has not yet been systematically investigated on amphibians and reptiles, five species of reptiles and three amphibians have been observed, inter alia, on Tasmania endemic frogs Litoria burrowsae and Crinia tasmaniensis.