The Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney

Woodland Conservation Areas

Visit the Cumberland Plain Woodlands, a critically endangered ecological community that once covered much of the region before European settlement.

View upwards of a eucalyptus tree, woodland canopy and blue sky

These woodland areas are a glimpse of the past, and is what the natural vegetation of the region looked like before European settlement.

Known as Cumberland Plain Woodland, this type of vegetation has been heavily cleared in western Sydney and is now classified as a Critically Endangered Ecological Community.

The forest is made up of distinctive eucalypts such as the Narrow-Leaved Ironbark, Forest Red Gum and Grey Box and has a very diverse grassy understorey. These forest areas are now very important for local fauna. Take a stroll along the walking tracks where you will see interesting forest birds and occasionally swamp wallabies and wallaroos.

sun peeking through native Australian woodlands

Take a stroll along the walking tracks where you will see interesting forest birds and occasionally swamp wallabies and wallaroos.

 

Bushland
Austrodanthonia racemosa, or Slender Wallaby-Grass
Bushland
sun peeking through native Australian woodlands

Cumberlands Plains