Bunyaville Diversity

Introduction

Bunyaville state forest, is a national park located in between the suburbs of Albany creek and Everton hills. Bunyaville has been educating the young minds of many school aged students for many years. Alongside the the education programs at bunyaville, there is a vast range of biodiversity, present at the site. From fish, birds and plants, there is without a doubt that bunyaville though having experienced a loss of biodiversity over the years, still has a lot of diversity within its species. The purpose of this report is to find and evaluate the biodiversity in the park and the conservation methods being used to maintain it.

The biodiversity at bunyaville as being stated earlier is quite large, with over 115 species of birds spotted at the park. With the data collected in the field study, though not being 100% reliable, showed a range of different species of trees such as the grey gum, bacon and egg and the spotted gum, along with birds such as the pee wee, red backed Wren and pacific black duck. As well as many of fish and a couple of toads. With the currents conservation methods in place. The biodiversity of bunyaville is sure to stay in tact for many years.

1. Biodiversity

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From visible examples of lantana, lily pads, moss, grey gums, string bark gum trees, spotted gum and iron bark. There was already a visible understanding that bunyaville has and immense range of plant species. Along with the animals mentioned that were seen, there was an extensive amount of bugs and insects in the park range. From one test being the forest floor scavenge; five different bugs were found, numerous times. Though these bugs are common household bugs, they were in large numbers. As mentioned before, the data taken for the species in bunyaville, is slightly restricted, as there wasn't enough time to search for every species of bug found in the