Mowbray is a national park in
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
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,
Australia, 1441 km northwest of
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
. The park forms part of the
Wooroonooran Important Bird Area
The Wooroonooran Important Bird Area comprises some 5125 km2 of mainly forested land in the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, of Far North Queensland, Australia.
Description
The site encompasses the largest block of tropical r ...
, identified as such by
BirdLife International because it supports populations of a range of bird species endemic to
Queensland's Wet Tropics.
[BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Wooroonooran. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-12-02.]
See also
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Protected areas of Queensland
Queensland is the second largest state in Australia. It contains around 500 separate protected areas. In 2020, it was estimated a total of 14.2 million hectares or 8.25% of Queensland's landmass was protected.
List of terrestrial protected ar ...
References
National parks of Far North Queensland
Protected areas established in 1988
Important Bird Areas of Queensland
1989 establishments in Australia
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