Tyagarah Nature Reserve

{{Short description|Protected area in New South Wales, Australia}}

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The Tyagarah Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. The reserve protects {{Convert|7|km|mi}} of coastline between Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads and has a total size of {{Convert|875|ha|acre}}.{{Cite web |title=Tyagarah Nature Reserve |url=https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/tyagarah-nature-reserve |access-date=30 September 2024 |website=NSW National Parks |language=en }}{{Cite web |last=NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment |date=8 May 2020 |title=Tyagarah Nature Reserve Plan of Management |url=https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/research-and-publications/publications-search/tyagarah-nature-reserve-plan-of-management |access-date=30 September 2024 |website=NSW Environment and Heritage |language=en |archive-date=2 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102005334/http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/research-and-publications/publications-search/tyagarah-nature-reserve-plan-of-management |url-status=live }}

It protects six endangered ecological communities including coastal saltmarsh and swamp sclerophyll forest. There are also 33 threatened plant species that occur or are known to occur there including stinking cryptocarya, red lilly pilly and green-leaved rose walnut.{{Cite web |title=Tyagarah Nature Reserve {{!}} Learn more |url=https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/tyagarah-nature-reserve/learn-more |access-date=30 September 2024 |website=NSW National Parks |language=en |archive-date=2 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241002052106/https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/tyagarah-nature-reserve/learn-more |url-status=live }}

The reserve is on the lands of the Bundjalung people, who are its custodians, and it is of great importance the Arakwal people, to whom it holds spiritual and cultural significance. The name Tyagarah comes from the Yugambeh–Bundjalung language word Targourah and is the word for 'open grass country' or 'camping ground'.{{Cite web |title=Tyagarah (place name) |url=https://proposals.gnb.nsw.gov.au/public/geonames/2fd77a50-fc30-41bf-8716-a5baf8ec7a74 |access-date=30 September 2024 |website=NSW Geographical Names Board |archive-date=2 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241002052111/https://proposals.gnb.nsw.gov.au/public/geonames/2fd77a50-fc30-41bf-8716-a5baf8ec7a74 |url-status=live }}{{Citation |author1=Brunswick Valley Historical Society Inc |title=Labels and landmarks: The many meanings of Brunswick Valley place names |pages=87 |publication-date=2019 |publisher=Brunswick Valley Historical Society Inc |isbn=978-0-9585921-9-2 }}