🌲 Nightcap National Park

Australia · Oceania · National Park · 28.55°S, 153.33°E

The Nightcap National Park is a national park situated within the Nightcap Range in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. The 8,080-hectare (20,000-acre) park was created in April 1983 and is situated 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Lismore. The park was established following campaigns and blockades against logging at Terania Creek, Grier's Scrub and Mount Nardi between 1979 and 1982. Sections of the Whian Whian state forest were added to it following blockading and campaigning in 1998. The national park is classed by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas as Category II and is part of the Shield Volcano Group of the World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia inscribed in 1986 and added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2007.

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Quick facts

Country	Australia
Continent / region	Oceania
Protection type	🌲 National Park
Coordinates (approx.)	28.55°S, 153.33°E · view on map

Nightcap National Park is a national park in Australia, in Oceania. The details of why Nightcap National Park is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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