Cleland Conservation Park

Cleland Conservation Park South Australia
IUCN category II (national park)
Entrance to the park
Cleland Conservation Park
Nearest town or city	Adelaide city centre
Coordinates	34°58′03″S 138°41′45″E / 34.96750°S 138.69583°E / -34.96750; 138.69583Coordinates: 34°58′03″S 138°41′45″E / 34.96750°S 138.69583°E / -34.96750; 138.69583
Established	1 January 1945 (1945-01-01)^[1]
Area	11.25 km² (4.3 sq mi)^[1]
Managing authorities	Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
Website	Cleland Conservation Park
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Map of the park

Cleland Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia about 22 kilometres (14 mi) south-east of the Adelaide city centre.^[2] Cleland Conservation Park conserves a significant area of natural bushland on the Adelaide Hills face and includes the internationally popular Cleland Wildlife Park and the popular tourist destinations of Mount Lofty summit and Waterfall Gully.^[2] It is maintained by the South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR).^[2]

The conservation park was named for Sir John Burton Cleland (1878-1971), a renowned naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist, and member of the Royal Society of South Australia. After a career in medicine and pathology, Cleland became keenly interested in wildlife conservation.^[3]

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category II protected area.^[4]

Cleland Wildlife Park

People with emus

The Wildlife Park is accessible by sealed road from both the South Eastern Freeway and Greenhill Road, and on foot on a formed but steep track from Waterfall Gully or Mount Lofty.^[5] A limited public bus service operates (Route 823: 3 journeys each day).^[6] A fee is payable to enter the Wildlife Park (but not to the Conservation Park except for car parking at Mt Lofty summit).

Cleland Wildlife Park offers visitors an opportunity to walk through large enclosures and interact with Australian animals such as kangaroos, koalas and emus, and to see others including wombats, dingos and many bird and reptile species. The park also has a variety of rare and endangered species such as the yellow-footed rock-wallaby, bush stone-curlew and brush-tailed bettong.

Facilities include a souvenir shop, cafe and toilets. Many visitors pay to be photographed holding koalas.^[7] Several other options are available to visitors, including an Aboriginal guide on a Cultural Tour of the Yurridla Aboriginal Trail, which explains dreaming stories of dingoes, emus, koalas and Yurrabilla, the creation ancestor, and a nightwalk, uncovering the secrets of the bush.

Mount Lofty summit

Waterfall Gully

Other

By far the largest part of the park consists of bushland, mostly woodland with some open spaces where clearing has taken place.^[9]

There are a number of walking trails, including the Waterfall Gully - Mount Lofty summit trail which is a popular and reasonably challenging ascent of the west side of Mount Lofty,^[5] and parts of the long distance Heysen and Yurrebilla Trails, which run north–south along the higher ground in the east of the park.

As of 22 December 2012, many trails in the park became shared-use, allowing mountain bikers to also make use of the trails.^[10]

References

1 2 "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 16 July 2015)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR). Retrieved 3 August 2015.
1 2 3 "Cleland Conservation Park". Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
↑ R. V. Southcott, 'Cleland, Sir John Burton (1878–1971)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, , published in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 18 April 2014.
↑ "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (see 'DETAIL' tab)". CAPAD 2012. Australian Government - Department of the Environment. 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
1 2 http://www.southaustraliantrails.com/trails.asp?id=13811 Retrieved 15-05-2009
1 2 http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/ttsearch.php?action=search&searchtext=823 Retrieved 15-05-2009
↑ "Example photo of visitor holding a koala". Photobucket.
↑ http://www.southaustraliantrails.com/trails.asp?id=13811
↑ A Hardy The Nature of Cleland 2nd Ed 1989
↑ http://www.ridemorebikes.com/mountain-biking-cleland-conservation-park/ Retrieved 02-01-2013

Further information

A Hardy. The Nature of Cleland 2nd Ed. 1989

External links

Media related to Cleland Wildlife Park at Wikimedia Commons

Protected areas of South Australia

National parks	Belair Canunda Coffin Bay Coorong Flinders Chase Ikara-Flinders Ranges Gawler Ranges Great Australian Bight Marine Innes Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre Lake Gairdner Lake Torrens Lincoln Malkumba-Coongie Mount Remarkable Murray River Naracoorte Caves Nullarbor Onkaparinga River Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges Witjira

Conservation parks	Acraman Creek Aldinga Scrub Althorpe Islands Angove Avoid Bay Islands Baird Bay Islands Bakara Baudin Baudin Rocks Beachport Beatrice Islet Beyeria Busby Islet Billiatt Bird Islands Black Hill Breakaways Butchers Gap Cap Island Cape Blanche Cape Gantheaume Cape Willoughby Carpenter Rocks Carribie Chadinga Cleland Clinton Cooltong Cox Scrub Cygnet Estuary Danggali Deep Creek Douglas Point Dudley Eba Island Ediacara Elliot Price Eric Bonython Ewens Ponds Fairview Ferguson Finniss Fort Glanville Fowlers Bay Franklin Harbor Gambier Islands Giles Goose Island Greenly Island Guichen Bay Gum Laqoon Kelly Hill Hacks Lagoon Hale Hallett Cove Hincks Horsnell Gully Ironstone Hill Kaiserstuhl Kellidie Bay Lake Gilles Lake Newland Lashmar Lathami Laura Bay Lesueur Leven Beach Lincoln Lipson Island Little Dip Mamungari Mantung Marino Martindale Hall Minlacowie Moana Sands Montacute Morialta Mount Brown Mount Dutton Bay Mount Magnificent Mount Taylor Munyaroo Nene Valley Nepean Bay Neptune Islands Newland Head Nicolas Baudin Island Ngarkat Nuyts Archipelago Nuyts Reef Olive Island Para Wirra Parndana Peebinga Penguin Island Pelican Lagoon Pigface Island Point Bell Point Davenport Point Labatt Piccaninnie Ponds Pinkawillinie Port Gawler Pualco Range Pullen Island Rocky Island (North) Ramsay Rocky Island (South) Salt Lagoon Islands Sceale Bay Scott Creek Seal Bay Searcy Bay Seddon Simpson Simpson Desert Sinclair Island Sir Joseph Banks Group Sleaford Mere Spring Gully Talisker Tallaringa Telowie Gorge The Dutchmans Stern The Pages Torrens Island Troubridge Island Tumby Island Venus Bay Vivonne Bay Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Wahgunyah Waitpinga Waldegrave Islands Warrenben West Island Whidbey Isles Whyalla Wills Creek Winninowie Wittelbee

Game reserves	Bool Lagoon Bucks Lake Chowilla Currency Creek Lake Robe Loch Luna Moorook Mud Islands Poocher Swamp Tolderol

Recreation parks	Anstey Hill Blackwood Forest Brownhill Creek Caratoola Cobbler Creek Granite Island Greenhill Long Island O'Halloran Hill Onkaparinga River Shepherds Hill Sturt Gorge Totness

Regional Reserves	Chowilla Innamincka Lake Frome Nullarbor Simpson Desert Strzelecki Yellabinna

Conservation reserves	Bernouilli

Wilderness Protection Areas	Billiatt Cape Bouguer Cape Gantheaume Cape Torrens Danggali Hambridge Hincks Investigator Group Memory Cove Nullarbor Nuyts Archipelago Ravine des Casoars Western River Yellabinna

Aquatic reserves	American River Aldinga Reef Bales Beach Barker Inlet Blanche Harbour Coobowie Cowleds Landing Goose Island Great Australian Bight Marine Park Whale Sanctuary Point Labatt Port Noarlunga Reef Seal Bay St Kilda – Chapman Creek Troubridge Hill West Island Yatala Harbour

Other protected areas	Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary Arkaroola Protection Area

Zoos of South Australia

Zoos	Adelaide Zoo Cleland Conservation Park Gorge Wildlife Park Monarto Zoo Parndana Wildlife Park Urimbirra Wildlife Park Warrawong Wildlife Sanctuary

Aquariums	Kangaroo Island Penguin Centre The Seahorse Farm

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