Scheyville National Park
Scheyville National Park covers an area of 950 hectares and is located 5 kilometres northeast of Windsor in northwest Sydney. The Scheyville National Park is the largest single remnant of Cumberland Plain vegetation on shale soil. The National Park includes Longneck Lagoon, a permanent freshwater wetland, together with a large portion of its mostly forested catchment.
Today, evidence of Scheyville's many phases of European occupation can still be seen in the farm relics and remnants of the past that were used for agriculture, military training and immigration.
The park was created in 1996 and helps conserve the endangered ecologicial communities and species of the Cumberland Plain and Hawkesbury River catchment. Although it once covered much of western Sydney, the woodland ecosystems of this area is now threatened, mainly by urban expansion.
Birds are a major feature, with over 140 species being recorded. There are at least 42 species using the wetland, with at least 7 species that are protected by international treaty. Scheyville National Park has been listed on the register of the National Estate by the Australian Heritage Commission.
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