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Warrenben Conservation Park

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Established
  
9 January 1969

Nearest town or city
  
Marion Bay

Area
  
40.58 km²

Warrenben Conservation Park

Managing authorities
  
Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources

See also
  
Protected areas of South Australia

Address
  
Marion Bay SA 5575, Australia

Managing authority
  
Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources

Warrenben Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) 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).

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.

References

Warrenben Conservation Park Wikipedia