Ngarkat Conservation Park

Ngarkat Conservation Park
IUCN Category Ia (Strict Nature Reserve)

Nearest town/city	Pinnaroo
Area	2044.45 km²
Established	1979
Managing authorities	Department for Environment and Heritage
Official site	Ngarkat Conservation Park

Ngarkat Conservation Park is in South Australia's south-eastern corner. It consists of Mallee vegetation on an area that was once a seabed. It is bordered by the Scorpion Springs, Mount Shaugh and Mount Rescue Conservation Parks, which constitute the "Ngarkat group" of conservation parks. The reserve is part of the Wyperfeld, Big Desert and Ngarkat Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of Malleefowl and other species of mallee birds.^[1]

Protected areas of South Australia

National Parks	Belair Canunda Coffin Bay Coongie Lakes Coorong Flinders Chase Flinders Ranges Gawler Ranges Innes Lake Eyre Lake Gairdner Lake Torrens Lincoln Mount Remarkable Murray River Naracoorte Caves Nullarbor Onkaparinga River Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges Witjira

Conservation Parks	Acraman Creek Billiatt Black Hill Cape Gantheaume Cleland Cox Scrub Danggali Deep Creek Fairview Finniss Fort Glanville Gum Laqoon Kelly Hill Hacks Lagoon Hallett Cove Horsnell Gully Kaiserstuhl Lake Gilles Mamungari Marino Monarto Morialta Mount Magnificent Naracoorte Caves Ngarkat Peebinga Piccaninnie Ponds Scott Creek Seal Bay Simpson Desert Spring Gully Talisker

Recreation Parks	Anstey Hill Brownhill Creek Cobbler Creek Para Wirra Sturt Gorge Totness

Regional Reserves	Innamincka Lake Frome Nullarbor Simpson Desert Strzelecki

Conservation Reserves	Chadinga Naracoorte Caves

Wilderness Protection Areas	Cape Gantheaume Ravine des Casoars

Game Reserves	Bool Lagoon

References

^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Wyperfeld, Big Desert and Ngarkat. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-12-06.