Numinbah Nature Reserve

Numinbah Nature Reserve is part of the Mount Warning caldera, in the Border ranges of northeastern New South Wales in Australia. Mount Warning is a volcano that erupted more than 23 million years ago.Knesel K. M., Cohen B.E., Vasconcelos P. M., and Thiede D.S. (2008) Rapid change in drift of the Australian plate records collision with Ontong Java Plateau, Nature vol 454, pages 754-757. The 892-hectare Reserve is part of the Shield Volcano Group of the World Heritage Site Gondwana Rainforests of Australia listed in 1986. It was added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2007.  The park is also part of the Scenic Rim Important Bird Area. It is important in the conservation of several species of threatened birds.BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Scenic Rim. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-10-03.

Description
In New South Wales the Reserve is bounded by privately owned land. It includes an area of escarpment rising to over 1000 metres that is part of state border with Queensland. It is intended to be a place where the plants and animals are protected from humans, domestic animals and feral pests.

The vegetation is mostly sub-tropical rainforest with some wet sclerophyll forest.  The rare rainforest tree Springbrook leatherwood grows at Barrigan Point.Floyd A.G. 2008. Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia, Inkata Press.   page 114

References

Other websites
NSWNPWS: Numinbah Nature Reserve 
Parks and Reserves of the Tweed Caldera Plan of Management (including 2020-12-19 Amendment)

Category:Rainforests
Category:World Heritage Sites in Australia
Category:Protected areas of New South Wales
Category:Forests of Australia