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Discover Wirraminna Wirraminna offers a diversity of opportunities for visitors to enjoy and learn about our natural environment. Biodiversity Restoring Box-Gum Grassy Woodland provides Wirraminna’s Journey habitat for a diverse range of birds and animals. Environmental Education Cultural Recognition Established in 1995, Wirraminna is set on an old Recognising Wiradjuri culture through the Wirraminna provides an engaging learning stock reserve and public watering place. As you planting of a themed garden bed. environment and its education outreach program walk around the 4 hectare park, you will pass a connects school students with natural resource large dam, wetlands, natural woodland and native Education management across the Murray-Darling Basin. garden beds. These features offer a great diversity Providing a place for students and the general of native plants and wildlife habitat found in Box- public to learn about native habitat for wildlife. Creative Catchment Kids Gum Grassy Woodlands. An environmental literacy program Tourism for primary and secondary Developed and maintained by local volunteers, Self-guided walks, bird watching, photography and schools. Wirraminna presents a model for local Landcare art for local, regional and international projects that aim to restore native vegetation visitors. BBQ, picnic and toilet facilities provided. Visits to Wirraminna and wetlands on farms to redress problems of Regional schools can visit Wirraminna for learning declining biodiversity. The gardens and natural Discovery Centre activities using the resources in the park. woodland contain many locally rare native shrubs, Home to native fish aquaria, Southern Corroboree wildflowers and grasses which attract a range Frog enclosure and environmental education In-school Support of animals such as native bees, frogs around the resources. Schools receive support in the use of resources waterways, skinks, many bird species, possums and delivery of environmental education services and the threatened Squirrel Glider. Volunteering at Wirraminna, as well as curriculum support ‘Friends of Wirraminna’ contribute to the and classroom connections with the local maintenance and development of Wirraminna environment. through volunteer activities. Southern Corroboree Frog Program Social Benefits The Corroboree Frog display enables visitors Wirraminna generates community pride, health to experience a connection to this critically and well-being and is a venue for regional events. endangered species.

Our work is aimed at restoring the original plant communities and habitats of the Burrumbuttock district to help visitors understand the local ecology, and the changes that have occurred since European settlement. Our Feature Gardens Saving Our Woodlands From Grasses to Trees... Indjimarra showcases native plants used Box-Gum Grassy Woodland once covered much Wirraminna contains a mix of planted gardens by the Wiradjuri people. These include of the Burrumbuttock district. Over time, it has and natural grassy woodland habitat. A remnant plants for food, fibre, medicines, been cleared and now only tiny remnants stand of White Box, Yellow Box and Blakely’s Red tools, weapons, utensils, fire remain on roadsides, along railway lines and Gum with a grassy understorey persists around making and spiritual values. Smell in some farm paddocks. The volunteers at the dam. the Chocolate Lilies, run your Wirraminna are gradually reintroducing Bush regeneration practices are being used to fingers through the Grass Trees shrubs and ground cover species to the replace weeds with native shrubs and ground leaves and admire the colourful remnant woodland. This regeneration is cover species. These understorey plants, now Quandong fruits if they are ripe. occurring around the dam bank. declining in the wild, are also featured in the The Wildflower Bed contains Wirraminna is also restoring eight hectares wildflower garden bed. The vibrant green wildflowers and shrubs which, of adjacent public land. This paddock and gold of the many wattles are important once widespread in the area, are has some remnant trees and a scattering understorey shrubs and provide excellent habitat now only occasionally found on of native grasses in the weedy pasture that for insects, birds, possums and gliders. roadsides. reflects its grazing history. In 2013, the area The disappearance of understorey plants from was planted with clumps of trees and shrubs The Art and Craft Bed features plants roadsides and farms has prompted Wirraminna and fenced plots are used for trialling grassland with unusual bark, leaves, flowers or fruits. to establish a seed production area. restoration techniques. A network of mown These include Banksias, Hakeas, Eucalypts, This area provides bulk seeds for pathways allows local residents to walk, exercise Grevilleas and Wollemi pines. revegetation work and preserves the dogs and enjoy the birdlife. local plant gene pool. Several gardens contain non-local native plants such as Eremophila, Correa, Melaleuca, Grevillea and Thryptomene. Acacias are featured in the Wattle Gardens and generally throughout the park. A range of ornamental Eucalypts, She Oaks, Callitris pines and trees suitable for agroforestry are also grown.

Nest boxes provide homes for wildlife.

Homes for Wildlife A Chorus of Birds Fur, Fins and Scales Wirraminna has lots of large old trees which The most obvious group of native animals that Wirraminna is home to lots of other wildlife. provide important habitat for wildlife. As well as you can see in Wirraminna are the birds, with Lizards make their homes under logs and in shedding lots of branches and leaf litter, these over 150 different kinds spotted in the area. the leaf litter, yabbies burrow in mud and frogs old trees often contain hollows. Many birds, bats, make foam egg masses in the reedbeds. Micro- In the summer, Dollarbird’s return to nest in lizards, possums and gliders make their homes in bats flutter through the woodland, feasting on their favourite tree hollow and are often seen these hollows. thousands of flying insects every night. swooping over the main dam, while ducks, Not only are old trees scarce in our landscape, herons and other water birds feed by the water’s Keep a lookout for Swamp Wallabies which but so are the middle-aged ones which will edge. might be resting during the heat of the day and become the old hollow-bearing trees for future echidnas poking about. Possums and Squirrel In winter, robins can be seen in the more densely generations. Nest boxes in a range of sizes Gliders emerge from their hollows at night to wooded areas - look out for a flash of red. provide homes for wildlife while the woodlands feed. Superb Fairy-wrens and Red-browed Finches regenerate. Other wildlife homes are provided now call Wirraminna home after many years of The rough, loose bark on the old trees, and the by stumps, logs, and fallen branches - this messy revegetation. The melodious call plentiful leaf litter, shelter numerous spiders, stuff is vital habitat. of the Grey Shrike-thrush can beetles and occasionally tiny scorpions. Native Riparian habitats, the wet areas around the edges often be heard as they follow bees are often busy around the flowering of ponds and streams, are also important areas volunteers working in the shrubs and wildflowers in for wildlife. They provide shelter and food for gardens. warm weather. both land and water animals.

Southern Corroboree Frogs are critically endangered. Fallen leaf litter and logs are important wildlife habitat.