Pigface Island Conservation Park

Pigface Island Conservation Park is a protected area associated with Pigface Island located on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north north-east west of Streaky Bay. It was proclaimed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 in 1972 for the purpose of conserving a ‘sea bird roosting habitat’. The land under protection had previously been dedicated as a Fauna Conservation Reserve on 2 May 1968. A statement of significance published in 1980 advises: ‘a small island utilised by silvergulls and black-faced cormorants as a breeding area and by other seabirds as a roosting and feeding habitat.’ The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.