Anderson Street Conservation Park

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Anderson Street Conservation Park
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Anderson Street Conservation Park
Location Queensland
Nearest city Cairns
Coordinates 16°55′6.5″S145°44′31″E / 16.918472°S 145.74194°E / -16.918472; 145.74194
Governing body Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
Website http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/managing/plans-strategies/statements/pdf/anderson-st-rpms.pdf

The Anderson Street Conservation Park is a protected conservation park in Manunda, Cairns, Queensland, Australia. [1] It is managed by the Cairns Regional Council. [2]

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History

The Anderson Street park was gazetted as an environmental park in 1976. In 1994 it became a conservation park under the Nature Conservation Act 1992. [2]

Protected biota

The park contains an area of endangered Melaleuca leucadendra open forest and a population of vulnerable spectacled flying-fox ( Pteropus conspicillatus ). [2]

See also

References

  1. "Anderson Street Conservation Park (entry 39363)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government . Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Anderson Street Regional Park Management Statement" (PDF). Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing. Queensland Government. 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2018.