Ngarkat Conservation Park

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Ngarkat Conservation Park
IUCN category Ia (strict nature reserve)

Nearest town or city	Pinnaroo
Coordinates	35°43′S 140°36′E / 35.717°S 140.600°E / -35.717; 140.600
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]

Looking north near Tym's Lookout, showing the effects of a past bushfire

Vegetation near Tym's Lookout, in an area that had experienced a bushfire.

v t e Protected areas of South Australia

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

Conservation Parks	Acraman Creek Beatrice Islet Beyeria Busby Islet Billiatt Bird Islands Black Hill Cape Gantheaume Cape Hart Cape Torrens Cleland Cox Scrub Danggali Deep Creek Dudley Ewens Ponds Fairview Finniss Fort Glanville Gum Laqoon Kelly Hill Hacks Lagoon Hallett Cove Horsnell Gully Kaiserstuhl Lake Gilles Lake Newland Lathami Mamungari Marino Martindale Hall Monarto Morialta Mount Magnificent Mount Taylor Naracoorte Caves Nepean Bay Neptune Islands Newland Head Ngarkat Parndana Peebinga Pelican Lagoon Piccaninnie Ponds The Pages Pullen Island Scott Creek Seal Bay Seddon Simpson Desert Sir Joseph Banks Group Spring Gully Talisker Torrens Island Troubridge Island Vivonne Bay West Island Western River

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.

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