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Mount Gibson Sanctuary

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Mount Gibson Sanctuary is a nature reserve on the northern edge of the Wheatbelt and the southern margin of uncleared rangeland country, north-east of Perth in mid-west Western Australia. [1]

32 relations: Australian Wildlife Conservancy, Bee, Biome, Bioregion, BirdLife International, Charles Darwin Reserve, Dalwallinu, Western Australia, Desert climate, Eucalypt, Eucalyptus loxophleba, Eucalyptus salmonophloia, Eucalyptus salubris, Important Bird Area, Little long-tailed dunnart, Major Mitchell's cockatoo, Mallee Woodlands and Shrublands, Malleefowl, Mitchell's hopping mouse, Mount Gibson, Western Australia, Mulga-eucalypt line, Nature reserve, Pastoral lease, Perth, Rangeland, Red kangaroo, Regent parrot, Western Australia, Western corella, Western grey kangaroo, Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wildfire, Woodland.

Australian Wildlife Conservancy

The Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) is an Australian independent, non-profit organisation, working to conserve threatened wildlife and ecosystems in Australia, principally through the acquisition of extensive areas of land on which to establish conservation reserves (called 'sanctuaries').

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Bee

Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the European honey bee, for producing honey and beeswax.

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Biome

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.

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Bioregion

A bioregion is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than an ecozone, but larger than an ecoregion or an ecosystem, in WWF classification scheme.

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International (formerly the International Council for Bird Preservation) is a global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats, and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

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Charles Darwin Reserve

Charles Darwin Reserve is a nature reserve in Western Australia.

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Dalwallinu, Western Australia

Dalwallinu is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, located 248 km from Perth via the Great Northern Highway.

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Desert climate

The Desert climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk, sometimes also BWn), also known as an arid climate, is a climate in which precipitation is too low to sustain any vegetation at all, or at most a very scanty shrub, and does not meet the criteria to be classified as a polar climate.

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Eucalypt

Eucalypt is a descriptive name for woody plants with capsule fruiting bodies belonging to seven closely related genera (of the tribe Eucalypteae) found across Australasia: Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Angophora, Stockwellia, Allosyncarpia, Eucalyptopsis and Arillastrum.

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Eucalyptus loxophleba

Eucalyptus loxophleba, commonly known as York gum, is a species of Eucalyptus which is endemic to Western Australia.

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Eucalyptus salmonophloia

Eucalyptus salmonophloia or the Salmon Gum is an evergreen tree native to Western Australia.

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Eucalyptus salubris

Eucalyptus salubris, commonly known as gimlet, fluted gum tree, gimlet gum and silver-topped gimlet, is a gum tree that is endemic to low-rainfall areas of the wheatbelt and goldfields regions of Western Australia.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Little long-tailed dunnart

The Little long-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis dolichura) is a dunnart that was, along with Gilbert's dunnart, described in 1984.

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Major Mitchell's cockatoo

The Major Mitchell's cockatoo (Lophochroa leadbeateri) also known as Leadbeater's cockatoo or pink cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo restricted to arid and semi-arid inland areas of Australia.

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Mallee Woodlands and Shrublands

Mallee Woodlands and Shrublands (MVG 14) is a Major Vegetation Group which occurs in semi-arid areas of southern Australia.

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Malleefowl

The malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken (to which it is distantly related).

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Mitchell's hopping mouse

Mitchell's hopping mouse (Notomys mitchellii) is the largest extant member of the genus Notomys, weighing between.

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Mount Gibson, Western Australia

Mount Gibson, Western Australia is located on the Wubin - Mount Magnet section of the Great Northern Highway in the mid-west region of Western Australia.

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Mulga-eucalypt line

The mulga-eucalypt line, or mulga-eucalypt boundary line, marks a boundary between Acacia-dominated shrublands and Eucalyptus-dominated open woodlands across Western Australia.

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Nature reserve

A nature reserve (also called a natural reserve, bioreserve, (natural/nature) preserve, or (national/nature) conserve) is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

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Pastoral lease

A pastoral lease is an arrangement used in both Australia and New Zealand where Crown land is leased by government generally for the purpose of grazing on rangelands.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Rangeland

Rangelands are grasslands, shrublands, woodlands, wetlands, and deserts that are grazed by domestic livestock or wild animals.

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Red kangaroo

The red kangaroo (Macropus rufus) is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest terrestrial mammal native to Australia, and the largest extant marsupial.

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Regent parrot

The regent parrot or rock pebbler (Polytelis anthopeplus) is a bird of the parrot family (Psittacidae).

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Western corella

The western corella (Cacatua pastinator) formerly known as the western long-billed corella, is a species of white cockatoo endemic to south-western Australia.

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Western grey kangaroo

The western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus), also referred to as a black-faced kangaroo, mallee kangaroo, and sooty kangaroo, is a large and very common kangaroo found across almost the entire southern part of Australia, from just south of Shark Bay to coastal South Australia, Western Australia, western Victoria, and the entire Murray–Darling basin in New South Wales and Queensland.

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Wheatbelt (Western Australia)

The Wheatbelt is one of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Wildfire

A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.

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Woodland

Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Gibson_Sanctuary

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