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Mootra Conservation Reserve
Conservation reserves of South Australia is a class of protected area used in the Australian state of South Australia where crown land under the control of the responsible minister has been dedicated for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes. This class of protected area has been in use as early as 1985. In 2016 there were 15 conservation reserves that covered an area of 194.7 square kilometres (75.1 sq mi). the number had increased to 16 conservation reserves covering 193.6 square kilometres (74.73 sq mi) or less than 1% of South Australia's land area. Description In South Australia, a conservation reserve is a class of protected area concerned with "(crown) land set aside for conservation of natural and cultural features under the ''Crown Land Management Act 2009''" and its predecessor, the ''Crown Lands Act 1929''. This class of protected area has been in use since at least 1985. Conservation reserves only concerns land under the control of the Minister (government), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protected Area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the enabling laws of each country or the regulations of the international organizations involved. Generally speaking though, protected areas are understood to be those in which human presence or at least the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood, non-timber forest products, water, ...) is limited. The term "protected area" also includes marine protected areas, the boundaries of which will include some area of ocean, and transboundary protected areas that overlap multiple countries which remove the borders inside the area for conservation and economic purposes. There are over 161,000 protected areas in the world (as of October 2010) with more added daily, representing between 10 and 15 percent of the world's land surface area. As of 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flinders Ranges
The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts about north of Adelaide. The ranges stretch for over from Port Pirie to Lake Callabonna. The Adnyamathanha people are the Aboriginal group who have inhabited the range for tens of thousands of years. Its most well-known landmark is Wilpena Pound / Ikara, a formation that creates a natural amphitheatre covering and containing the range's highest peak, St Mary Peak (). The ranges include several national parks, the largest being the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, as well as other protected areas. It is an area of great geological and palaeontological significance, and includes the oldest fossil evidence of animal life was discovered. The Ediacaran Period and Ediacaran biota take their name from the Ediacara Hills within the ranges. In August 2022, a nomination for the Flinders Ranges to be named a World Heritage Site was lodged. History The first humans to inhabit the Flinders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinkawillinie, South Australia
Pinkawillinie is a locality in the north of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It is a rural grain and grazing area in marginal country near Goyder's Line within the District Council of Kimba. It draws its name from the cadastral Hundred bearing the same name which is mostly included in the modern bounded locality, however the locality includes several other Hundreds and the Pinkawillinie Conservation Park, all within the Kimba region. Settlement in this area was spurred by the completion of the railway line to Port Lincoln, which reached Buckleboo in 1926. A school was approved in 1929. It was originally intended that the residents would build it with assistance of a loan from the Government, however a poor season meant they were unable to proceed, so a portable building was supplied, and a head teacher announced for 1930. The school is now closed. In the 1950s it was only a junior primary school, with children transported to Kimba for higher primary school. In November 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moseley, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Moseley is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula about north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-east of the municipal seat in Kimba. Moseley’s boundaries were created on 6 May 1999 for the “local established name”. On 26 April 2013, land within the Lake Gilles Conservation Park was removed from Moseley and added to the new locality of Lake Gilles to ensure that all of the conservation park was within the locality of the same name. Land use within the locality is ’primary production’ with exception to land on its western boundary dedicated as the protected area, the Mootra Conservation Reserve, land in its centre used for the Kimba Aerodrome and land in its south-western corner which has been zoned for use for bulk handling. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Moseley had 19 people living within its boundaries. Moseley is located within the feder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherwood, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Sherwood is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west of the municipal seat of Bordertown. Boundaries for the locality were created on 16 March 2000 for the “long established name.” Sherwood is served by Emu Flat Road which passes through the locality from the Ngarkat Highway in the east where the highway forms the locality’s eastern boundary to Keith in the west where the road terminates in the Keith town centre. The principal land use in the locality is primary production. A parcel of land at its eastern boundary has protected area status as the Hardings Springs Conservation Reserve. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Sherwood had a population of 97 people. Sherwood is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Tatiara District Council T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert Camp Conservation Park
__NOTOC__ Desert Camp Conservation Park (formerly Desert Camp National Parks Reserve and Desert Camp National Park) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's Limestone Coast region in the gazetted locality of Marcollat about south of the town centre in Keith. The conservation park occupies land in sections 87 and 105 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Marcollat on the northern side of Rowney Road which is also known as the Kingston - Keith road. The land originally gained protected area status on 27 July 1967, when section 87 was gazetted under the ''National Parks Act 1966'' as the ''Desert Camp National Park''. Its name was amended to ''Desert Camp National Parks Reserve'' on 9 November 1967. Section 105 came in existence about 14 months later after work to Rowney Road resulted in it being “severed … from an adjoining lease.” Section 105 was subsequently added ion 21 November 1968 to the national parks reserve. In 1972 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naracoorte, South Australia
Naracoorte is a town in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, approximately 336 kilometres south-east of Adelaide and 100 kilometres north of Mount Gambier, South Australia, Mount Gambier on the Riddoch Highway (A66). History Before the colonisation of South Australia in 1836, the land now occupied by the town of Naracoorte was situated on the border of lands occuped by the Bindjali people to the east and Ngarrindjeri to the east. Naracoorte was formed from the merger of two towns, Kincraig, founded in 1845 by Scottish explorer William Macintosh, and Narracoorte, established as a government settlement in 1847. The name has gone through a number of spellings, and is believed to be derived from the Australian Aborigine, Aboriginal words for ''place of running water'' or ''large waterhole''. It grew during the 1850s as a service town for people going to and from the Victorian gold rush. The Post Office opened on 22 March 1853 and was known as Mosquito Plains until 1861. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcollat, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Marcollat is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s Limestone Coast region about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north of the municipal seat in Kingston SE. Boundaries were created in December 1998 for “the long established name” which is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Marcollat. Marcollat is located entirely within the Hundred of Marcollat with the hundred’s south-west corner including part of the adjoining locality of Keilira. The locality is served by the following roads - the Riddoch Highway which passes through the locality’s north-west corner from the north-west to the south-east en route to the regional centre of Mount Gambier and Rowney Road, described as a “secondary arterial road”, which passes from the north-east to the south-west en route to Kingston SE. The principal land use within the locality is ‘primary production’ represented by “grazing (cattle and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert Camp Conservation Reserve
__NOTOC__ Desert Camp Conservation Reserve is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's Limestone Coast in the gazetted locality of Marcollat about south of the town centre in Keith. It is classified as an IUCN Category VI protected area. The reserve occupies crown land in section 55 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Marcollat on the eastern side of the Riddoch Highway which runs from Keith in the north to Naracoorte in the south. It is also bounded to the north by Rowney Road which runs from Bordertown in the north-east to Kingston SE in the south-west and which stops at the Riddoch Highway and resumes about a to the south. Background The crown land was dedicated as a conservation reserve on 11 November 1993 and placed ‘’under the care, control and management of the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources.” Its name is derived from the Desert Camp Conservation Park which is located to the immediate west on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cunyarie, South Australia
Cunyarie is a locality on northern Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. The Hundred of Cunyarie was proclaimed in 1922 and the town was surveyed in November 1927. Land was released, surveyed and apportioned on an application basis, with the latest sections being surveyed as late as the 1960s and 1970s. However, the limiting factor for early settlers was the availability of water, and allocations were generally preferentially selected around rare rocky outcrops or uplands which could afford some opportunities for increased runoff into earthen dams. Indeed, access to water was a critical factor in European settlement of Eyre Peninsula. Settlement in the area was spurred by the completion of the railway line to Port Lincoln, which reached Buckleboo (the next town on from Cunyarie, and end of the line) in 1926. The town of Cunyarie was surveyed and proclaimed in 1927-28, but declared as ceased to exist in 1962. The town was named for the railway siding, which was named for the cadast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cox Scrub Conservation Park
Cox Scrub Conservation Park (formerly Cox's Scrub National Park) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted localities of Ashbourne and Nangkita about south of the state capital of Adelaide. The conservation park consists of land in sections 1972 and 1979 to 1985 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Kondoparinga. On 5 March 1970, it was proclaimed under the ''National Parks Act 1966'' as ''Cox’s Scrub National Park''. On 27 April 1972, it was reconstituted as ''Cox Scrub Conservation Park'' upon the proclamation of the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972''. As of 2018, it covered an area of . In 1980, the conservation park was described as follows:This park preserves an uncommon vegetation type for the Mount Lofty Ranges, the principal vegetation being a low ''Eucalyptus baxteri'' open forest over banksia scrub. This habitat supports a wide variety of bird species including the threatened scaly thrush and the beautiful firet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
