Nearest town or city Pinnaroo Area 33.61 km² | Established 14 March 1940 | |
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Managing authorities See also Protected areas of South Australia Address Kringin SA 5304, Australia | ||
Peebinga Conservation Park is a 34 km2 protected area lying 40 km north of the town of Pinnaroo in the Murray Mallee region of south-eastern South Australia, about 240 km east of Adelaide and 10 km west of the Victorian border.
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Description
The conservation park contains much land that was previously cleared for agriculture. It is characterised by remnants of mallee woodland on low, stabilised dunes. with regenerating open shrubland and grassland on sand plains. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.
Flora and fauna
As well as grasses, the vegetation features ridge-fruited and slender-leaved mallee with warty cypress pine over broombush; the higher areas have square-fruited, red and white mallees.
Fauna found in the conservation park includes western grey kangaroos and short-beaked echidnas.
Peebinga Important Bird Area
The conservation park has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports a relatively large population of malleefowl. It previously had a population of the eastern mallee subspecies of the western whipbird (Psophodes nigrogularis leucogaster), which is now locally extinct. Purple-gaped honeyeaters are present.