Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve is a 4.6 km2 nature reserve 50 km east of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. It lies in the Upper Yarra Valley, near the towns of Yellingbo and Macclesfield. The reserve is managed by Parks Victoria, which also manages adjoining freehold land along Cockatoo Creek, owned by the Victorian Trust for Nature, as if it were part of the reserve. Yellingbo is a largely linear reserve containing stream-frontage land along the Woori Yallock, Shepherd, Cockatoo, Macclesfield and Sheep Station Creeks. It is important for the conservation of the last wild colonies of a critically endangered bird, the Helmeted Honeyeater, Victoria's avifaunal emblem, of which it holds the last known established wild population, and for which the protection and preservation of its habitat is the main goal of reserve management. It has been assigned the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Category 1A (Strict Nature Reserve) for Protected Areas, indicating that it is managed primarily for science.