Greater Bendigo NP

About this location

Greater Bendigo National Park protects more than 17,000 hectares around Bendigo, including some of the highest-quality box-ironbark forest remaining in central Victoria. The park also includes grassy woodland, broombush mallee and Kamarooka mallee, giving it a broader range of dry-country vegetation than the box-ironbark label alone suggests.

The box-ironbark communities are particularly important for nectar-feeding birds, with flowering eucalypts such as yellow gum, grey box and red stringybark providing seasonal food resources for species including swift parrot. The present forest also reflects a long history of gold mining, timber cutting and eucalyptus-oil production, which heavily altered the older woodland structure before much of the area was protected.

Country: 🇦🇺 Australia
Habitat types: Forest, Woodland, Shrubland
First visit: 1 February 2025