Hyde Park
Landscaped colonial-era garden of twin lakes, its historic canopy now fighting an invasive beetle.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Hyde Park in Perth follows a tiny invasive beetle first found in nearby East Fremantle in twenty twenty-one, and traces how it reached this park's historic lakes and century-old trees within a few years. You will hear how the park itself began life as a colonial-era swamp before becoming a landscaped public garden, and how officials responded once eradicating the insect stopped looking possible. It touches on the science of how the beetle kills a tree from the inside, and the large-scale planting effort now under way around you.
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