Barmah National Park is a national park

National park

A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or...

 in Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The park is located on the Murray River

Murray River

The Murray River is Australia's longest river. At in length, the Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between New South Wales and Victoria as it...

 near the town of Barmah

Barmah, Victoria

Barmah is a town in Victoria, with the distinction of being located north of the southerly border with New South Wales. At the 2006 census, Barmah had a population of 201....

. The park was one of four established by the State Government of Victoria in 2009, ostensibly in response to increased pressure on remnant River Red Gum forest. The other parks created were the Gunbower National Park

Gunbower National Park

Gunbower is a national park in Victoria, Australia established in 2010. It contains the Gunbower Forest Ramsar wetlands site for the protection of migratory bird species....

, Lower Goulburn National Park

Lower Goulburn National Park

Lower Goulburn is a national park in Victoria, Australia.It is a linear park protecting the lower Goulburn River from Shepparton to its junction with the Murray River near Echuca....

 and the Warby-Ovens National Park.

Birds

The Barmah National Park is part of the much larger Barmah-Millewa Important Bird Area

Important Bird Area

An Important Bird Area is an area recognized as being globally important habitat for the conservation of bird populations. Currently there are about 10,000 IBAs worldwide. The program was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife International...

. It supports globally important populations of the Australasian Bittern

Australasian Bittern

The Australasian Bittern , also known as the Brown Bittern, is found in south-western and south-eastern Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Ouvea. Populations in Australia and New Zealand have declined in the 20th century.It is a large bittern, patterned and streaked brown, buff...

 and Superb Parrot

Superb Parrot

The Superb Parrot , is a parrot native to southeastern Australia...

, as well as Flame Robin

Flame Robin

The Flame Robin is a small passerine bird native to Australia. It is a moderately common resident of the coolest parts of south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Like the other two red-breasted Petroica robins—the Scarlet Robin and the Red-capped Robin—it is often simply but...

s, Diamond Firetail

Diamond Firetail

The Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata is a species of estrildid finch found in eastern Australia, from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, to south-eastern Queensland, commonly found on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range. The bird lives in eucalypt forest and woodland, mallee country,...

s and, when flooded, large numbers of breeding waterbirds.

External links

• Ministerial statement