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The Tyagarah Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. The reserve protects 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) of coastline between Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads and has a total size of 875 hectares (2,160 acres).[1][2]
It protects six endangered ecological communities including coastal saltmarsh and swamp sclerophyll forest. There are also 33 threatened plant species that occur or are known to occur there including stinking cryptocarya, red lilly pilly and green-leaved rose walnut.[3]
The reserve is on the lands of the Bundjalung nation who are its custodians and it is of great importance the Arakwal people to whom it holds spiritual and cultural significance.[3][2] The name Tyagarah comes from the Yugambeh–Bundjalung language word Targourah and is the word for 'open grass country' and/or 'camping ground'.[4][5]
- ^ "Tyagarah Nature Reserve". NSW National Parks. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ a b NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (8 May 2020). "Tyagarah Nature Reserve Plan of Management". NSW Environment and Heritage. Archived from the original on 2 November 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ a b "Tyagarah Nature Reserve | Learn more". NSW National Parks. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "Tyagarah (place name)". NSW Geographical Names Board. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ Brunswick Valley Historical Society Inc (2019), Labels and landmarks: The many meanings of Brunswick Valley place names, Brunswick Valley Historical Society Inc, p. 87, ISBN 978-0-9585921-9-2