Warrenben Conservation Park

Warrenben Conservation Park
South Australia
IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)
Warrenben Conservation Park
Nearest town or city Marion Bay.
Coordinates 35°7′14″S 137°2′45″E / 35.12056°S 137.04583°E / -35.12056; 137.04583Coordinates: 35°7′14″S 137°2′45″E / 35.12056°S 137.04583°E / -35.12056; 137.04583
Established 9 January 1969 [1]
Area 4,058 ha (10,030 acres)[1]
Managing authorities Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
See also Protected areas of South Australia

Warrenben Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia about 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) north-east of Marion Bay. The conservation park which held protected area status under previous legislation was re-proclaimed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 in 1972. The following statement of significance appears in the conservation park’s management plan:

Together with nearby Innes National Park, it conserves a substantial proportion of the natural habitat remaining on southern Yorke Peninsula. The park comprises an area of undulating limestone plains and low, stabilised dunes that remain well vegetated with mallee and tea-tree scrub and some sheoak woodlands. It provides habitat for a number of threatened species including the nationally and state vulnerable Annual Candles, state rare Goldsack’s Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum goldsackii), and the nationally and state vulnerable Malleefowl and Western Whipbird (Psophodes nigrogularis leucogaster).[2]

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.[2][3][4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 17 Feb 2014)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Mainland Conservation Parks of Yorke Peninsula Management Plan 2009" (PDF). Department for Environment and Heritage. p. 2. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "CAPAD 2012 South Australia Summary (see 'DETAIL' tab)". CAPAD 2012. Australian Government - Department of the Environment. 6 February 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  4. ↑ "WarrenbenConservation Park". Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.


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