"...A major reason for the park's creation was protection of a range of high fertility old-growth forest ecosystems. Thirty-two per cent of the old-growth eucalypt forest in the region is within the park and many old-growth ecosystems in the park are poorly represented in other conservation reserves. The park is an area rich in its diversity of flora and fauna, and is vital to long term conservation of regional biodiversity. Several areas are particularly rich in arboreal mammals and hollow-nesting birds, while others are important habitats for threatened animal species...."

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, link above.