WA Goldfields Flora and Fauna
Kalgoorlie-Boulder is well known for its beautiful wildflowers in the spring time and its typical Australian outback environment. The tranquil forests comprise more than a hundred species of eucalyptus including marble-colored salmon gums, bronze-barked gimlets, and a variety of black butts. Nowhere else are there so many different tall trees in such an arid environment. In contrast, low lying acacia woodlands, river gums, mallees, grasses and spinifex dominate the regions north and Nullarbor Plain breakaway country.
Good winter rains see the forests and shrubs burst into color in spring when you can enjoy native flowers, bright orange grevillea, Sturts desert pea, purple mulla mulla, yellow cassia, flowering eucalypts and mallees and displays of wildflowers including pink, yellow and white everlastings, and dainty paper daisies. The region is also one of few in Western Australia where you can find the distinctive aromatic sandalwood tree.
The Goldfields boasts 12 existing and proposed nature reserves with a combined area of eight million hectares. An incredibly high number of bird species flourish here as well as the threatened bilby or rabbit-eared bandicoot, chuditch, as well as mallee fowl, scarlet chested parrot, sandhill dunnart and mulgara. The inhabitants of the area include ornate lizards, emus, echidnas, carpet pythons, honey-eaters, yellow-throated miners, rainbow bee-eaters and budgerigars. Of course you can’t leave out the Kangaroos!