Currawong Bush Park

Currawong Bush Park is an critical riparian bushland park, positioned at the borders of Doncaster East, Warrandyte and Donvale, at the japanese bank of the Mullum Mullum Creek. The park is critical for a number of motives, it accommodates 59 hectares of remnant bushland and hosts many archaeological sites concerning the pre-European population of the location. The foremost threats to the park's ecology are introduced species of flora and fauna together with foxes, rabbits, puppies and cats. It is a popular destination for faculty and community organizations and is frequented by way of neighborhood bush walkers. It as soon as housed a set of kangaroos in its natural world enclosure, but due to investment cuts, the park can not be managed full-time with the aid of a park ranger and the enclosure become closed.

An archaeological survey of aboriginal websites within City of Manningham by way of Ellender in 1991, located proof of the presence of the Wurundjeri human beings inside the park, in the shape of four scarred bushes. Scarred bushes are bushes from which bark or heartwood has been removed to make a timber artefact along with a protect, canoe or container. An aboriginal stone artefact turned into also observed alongside the Mullum Mullum Creek. The Wurundjeri had been part of the Kulin country, comprising the main tribes dwelling inside about a 150 km radius of Melbourne. The Wurundjeri are of the Woiworung tribe, considered one of 5 Kulin tribes, every of whom had their very own land and language.