Warkworth Sands Woodland in the Sydney Basin Bioregion was gazetted as an endangered ecological community in New South Wales on 13 December 2002 [1] [2] under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 and now under the Biodiversity Act of 2016 . [2] Under the Commonwealth EPBC Act it is listed as Warkworth Sands Woodland of the Hunter Valley. [3]
Warkworth Sand Woodland occurs on aeolian sand deposits south of Singleton in the Hunter Valley. [2] These sand dunes are thought to date from the Pleistocene, are from 1-6 m high and rest on a river terrace. [1]
Warkworth Sands Woodland is found in a small area near Warkworth, with only 800 hectares remaining (thought to be perhaps 13% of its pre-settlement extent). [2] The entire known endangered community lies outside conservation reserves. [2]
Its conservation status in NSW is as Endangered Ecological Community, [2] and its Commonwealth status is Critically Endangered (listed on 25 May 2016). [3]
Threatened fauna which have been recorded in Warkworth Sands Woodland are: Petaurus norfolcensis , (Squirrel Glider), Chthonicola saggitata (Speckled Warbler), Climacteris picumnus victoriae (Brown treecreeper) and Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis (Grey-crowned Babbler). [1]
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