Pellings Scrub Nature Refuge, Malanda
For Sale: Offers over $370,000
Location: Approximately 4 km south-west of Malanda on the Millaa Millaa-Malanda Rd
Size: 22 hectares (including a 4ha exclusion zone for residential/ agricultural use)
Tenure: Freehold.
Infrastructure: Nil.
Conservation Values: The land borders Williams Creek which feeds into the North Johnston river system and contains an array of significant conservation values including:
- Complex notophyll to mesophyll vine forest of high rainfall, cloudy uplands on basalt, described as not of concern regional ecosystem 7.8.2;
- Known habitat for the rare Australian Swiftlet Aerodramus terraereginae and Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus lumholtzi; and
- Suitable habitat for the endangered southern cassowary Casuarius casuarius johnsonii
Additional Information: The Trust has recently fenced and revegetated the section of land immediately adjacent to Williams Creek, which has added to both the conservation value of the block as well as its general appeal.
Last updated 10 January 2012