Our group, Tweed Valley Wildlife Carers, is based in the heart of the beautiful Tweed Valley. Situated on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, on the east coast of Australia, about 110 klms from Brisbane to the North, and about 880 klms from Sydney to the South.

The valley is bordered by subtropical rainforeat clad World Heritage listed ranges to the north, west and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the east. Our area has a very pleasant subtropical climate, warm all year round with a very high rainfall.

Rain falling in the ranges, forms a myriad of cool rainforest creeks. Tumbling over boulders and waterfalls, it slowly gathers strength, it's tributaries, forming the mighty Tweed River which flows east through the town of Murwillumbah (pop. 10,000), and then slowly meanders through a sea of sugarcane before emptying into the Pacific.

The town of Murwillumbah may be the population centre, but the real heart of the Tweed Valley is the spectacular towering cone shaped peak of Mt warning, which rises up 1156 metres to dominate the landscape.

Mt Warning, for most of the year, is the first place on Australia's mainland to be touched by the first rays of sunlight each morning. The local aboriginal community named the mountain Wollumbin, meaning "Cloud Catcher".

Mt Warning is the central core of the largest extinct shield volcano in the southern hemisphere, and together with the ranges forming a ring around it, is the largest erosion caldera in the world.

The area is home to three world heritage listed National Parks (Mount Warning N.P, Nightcap N.P, and Border Ranges N.P) and 2 World Heritage listed Reserves, and boasts a richly diverse ecology of both flora and fauna. Nightcap N.P on the southern rim of the Mt Warning volcanic caldera, contains the most ecologically complex and best developed subtropical rainforest in New South Wales.

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