- Wharparilla Flora Reserve
The Wharparilla Flora Reserve is a small environmental reserve located 2 kilomoeters west of
Echuca ,Australia . Wharparilla Run was the original sheep station in Northern Victoria that encompassed a vast area of north central Victoria. In 1852, land from Wharparilla Run was gazetted by the Victorian government to establish the township of Echuca, which today is thriving agriculture and tourism town set on the iconicMurray River , directly north ofMelbourne .Due to expanded agriculture,, much of the Murray River's native
habitat was destroyed and the owner of Wharparilla Run in the1960 s played a pivotal role in preserving the Wharparilla Flora Reserve as a natural habitat.The
Yorta Yorta clan also have expressed their interest in maintaining the Reserve, since it was the location where they first met white settlers in the1850 s.Current plans for a new bypass road around Echuca will cut through the Reserve.
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