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mallee. It is surrounded by farmland. Past forest management involved logging the larger box trees to promote            the growth of cypress pine and ironbark, but the site is now managed primarily for conservation. Much of the area was burned in bushfires in 2007.

         * Pilliga - The Pilliga Forests, sometimes known as the Pilliga Scrub, constitute over 5,000 km2 of semi-arid woodland in temperate north-central New South Wales.
       It is the largest such continuous remnant in New South Wales. The forest is located near the towns of Baradine and Narrabri and the villages of Pilliga and Gwabegar. Most land within the Pilliga is in crown tenure, either as State Forest (2,416 km2), Nature Reserve, State Conservation Area or National Park (2,770 km2). A 4,909 km2 tract of land, including the forest and the nearby Warrumbungle National Park, has been identified as a KBA because it supports populations of Painted Honeyeaters and Diamond Firetails (Stagonopleura guttata). It also experiences irregular occurrences of critically endangered Swift Parrots (Lathamus discolor) and Regent Honeyeaters (Anthochaera phrygia), and several other near threatened woodland birds.

         * South-west Slopes of New South Wales and the ACT - An area of 25,653 km2, largely coincident with the bioregion, has been identified as a KBA because it supports a significant wintering population of the Critically Endangered Swift Parrots and Vulnerable Superb Parrots (Polytelis swainsonii), as well as populations of Painted Honeyeaters and Diamond Firetails. Most of the site is modified wheat-growing and sheep-grazing country with only remnants of its original vegetation. Remnant patches    of woodland and scattered large trees, especially of Mugga Ironbark (E. sideroxylon), Apple Box (E. bridgesiana), Grey Box (E. microcarpa), White Box (E. albens), Yellow Box (E. melliodora), Red Box (E. polyanthemos), Yellow Gum (E. leucoxylon), River Red Gum and Blakely's Red Gum (E. blakelyi), still provide habitat for the Painted Honeyeaters. Protected areas within the site include several nature reserves and state forests, as well as the Livingstone and Weddin Mountains National Parks, and Tarcutta Hills Reserve.

    Victoria
         * Warby-Chiltern Box-Ironbark Region - The Warby–Chiltern Box–Ironbark Region comprises a cluster of separate blocks of remnant box-ironbark forest habitat, with
       a collective area of 253 km2, in north eastern Victoria. This site lies to the east of the Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region KBA. It includes the Reef Hills and Warby-Ovens National Parks, Killawarra Forest, Chesney Hills, Mount Meg Reserves, Winton
       Wetlands Reserve, the Boweya Flora and Fauna Reserve, Rutherglen Conservation Reserve, Mount Lady Franklin Reserve and Chiltern-Mount Pilot National Park.
       Most of it lies within protected areas or state forests, encompassing only small blocks
       of private land. The site has been identified as an KBA because it provides feeding habitat for relatively large numbers of non-breeding Swift