Beringa Reserve, formerly known as Peniup Creek Reserve, is a 25.06 km²

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in south-west

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. It lies about 380 km south-east of

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. It is owned and managed by

Bush Heritage Australia Bush Heritage Australia is a non-profit organisation with headquarters in Melbourne, Australia, that operates throughout Australia. It was previously known as the Australian Bush Heritage Fund. Its vision is: Healthy Country, Protected Forever. ...

(BHA), by which it was purchased jointly with Greening Australia (WA) in 2007, and forms part of the

Gondwana Link Gondwana Link is one of the largest and most ambitious conservation projects proposed in Australia’s history. Designed to protect and restore the ecological integrity of land areas across south-west Western Australia, a biodiversity hotspot, ...

project, in which BHA is a partner.

Flora and fauna

The reserve protects

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, mallet and moort

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as well as mallee

heath A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a coole ...

vegetation and

riparian A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream. In some regions, the terms riparian woodland, riparian forest, riparian buffer zone, riparian corridor, and riparian strip are used to characterize a ripar ...

communities along the upper Peniup Creek. Much of the reserve was previously cleared and is now regenerating or planned to be revegetated. Animals either recorded, or expected to be present, include black-gloved wallaby,

tammar wallaby The tammar wallaby (''Notamacropus eugenii''), also known as the dama wallaby or darma wallaby, is a small macropod native to South and Western Australia. Though its geographical range has been severely reduced since European colonisation, the ...

and

red-tailed phascogale The red-tailed phascogale (''Phascogale calura''), also known as the red-tailed wambenger, red-tailed mousesack or kenngoor, is a small carnivorous marsupial found in inland areas of south-western Western Australia, and has been reintroduced i ...

. The nearby Peniup Nature Reserve is used for the DEC recovery program for the

Dibbler The dibbler (''Parantechinus apicalis'') is an endangered species of marsupial. It is an inhabitant of the southwest mainland of Western Australia and some offshore islands. It is a member of the order Dasyuromorphia, and the only member of t ...

(''Parantechinus apicalis''), an attempt to conserve this endangered species by its reintroduction.

References

External links

Bush Heritage Australia

Gondwana Link
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