Gungaderra Grasslands

Gungaderra Grasslands Nature Reserve is a 297-hectare temperate grassland protected area which includes a 1.9 km stretch of Gungaderra Creek and rises to the wooded Gungahlin Hill at 652 m above sea level. The reserve lies about halfway between Lake Burley Griffin and the northern tip of the ACT.

 

The grassland contains two dominant Eucalypt species; E. Rossii ["scribbly gum"] and E. mannifera ["brittle gum"].

 

Although small in areal extent, it also provides an important residual habitat for:

 

[1] a relatively large remnant of critically endangered Natural Temperate Grassland;

 

[ii] the largest known population of the vulnerable Striped Legless Lizard (Delma impar);

 

[iii] a large population of the rare Key's Matchstick Grasshopper (Keyacris scurra);

 

[iv] one of few known habitats of the vulnerable Perunga Grasshopper (Perunga ochracea);

 

[v] a small population of the endangered Golden Sun Moth (Synemon plana);

 

[vi] several rare plant species, including

30 hectares of critically endangered Yellow Box–Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland on Gungahlin Hill,;

 

[vii] providing important habitat for rare and threatened woodland birds

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