A new national park has been created in the heart of Western Australia's Wheatbelt, providing greater security for the future of some of the state's most endangered animals.About 15,000 hectares will be given greater levels of conservationThe Dryandra Woodland near Narrogin is the natural home of numbats, woylies and western quolls, and is the largest remnant of the original vegetation before it was cleared for broadacre farming.
"[It] makes it unique in the Wheatbelt, which makes it so important that this becomes our first national park in the Wheatbelt."Approximately 15,000 hectares of the wandoo and powderbark eucalypt woodlands will be given greater levels of conservation programs, affording the unique mammals, birds and reptiles that call Dryandra home greater protection from cats and foxes.
Lions village caretaker John Lawson has spent 18 years at Dryandra helping with the preservation of wildlife. "Through social media people have found out about [the woodlands], it used to be a bit of a secret, but no longer — with the national park status, it'll be reaching to a lot more people."But for Perup farmer Bill Smart, the announcement has raised the question about why the only other known natural home of the critically endangered numbat, further south at Tone River near Manjimup, is not being afforded the same level of protection.
"Maybe their habitat will be looked after a little bit more gently than what's happened here over the last 12 months, and that can only be good.
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