Fairview Conservation Park (formerly the Fairview National Park) is a
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 ena ...
in the Australian state of
South Australia located in the gazetted locality of
Woolumbool about north of
Lucindale
Lucindale is a small town in the south-east of South Australia. The town is located south east of the state capital, Adelaide. At the 2006 census, Lucindale had a population of 301. The town is best known for hosting the annual South East Fiel ...
in the state's
Limestone Coast
The Limestone Coast is a name used since the early twenty-first century for a South Australian government region located in the south east of South Australia which immediately adjoins the continental coastline and the Victorian border. The ...
region.
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The conservation park is located on land in sections 93, 98 and 61 in the cadastral unit of the ]Hundred of Woolumbool
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to desc ...
on the east side of Woolumbool Road.[ Sections 93 and 98 were constituted under the ''Crown Lands Act 1929'' on 13 October 1960 as a wild life reserve.][ On 9 November 1967, sections 93 and 98 were proclaimed under the ''National Parks Act 1966'' as ''Fairview National Park''.][
As of 1994, the conservation park was described as follows:] … two semi-permanent lagoons, extensive areas of seasonally inundated flats, sandy flats and ridges, and limestone ridges. A South Australian swamp paper-bark (''Melaleuca halmaturorum'') association, with sedges and sandy beaches characterises the lagoon edges. Open heath and tussock grasslands cover the seasonally inundated flats, while a low open woodland of South Australian blue gum (''Eucalyptus leucoxylon'') and rough-barked manna gum (E. ''viminalis'' subsp. ''cygnetensis'') occupies the sandy flats and limestone ridges.
As of 1994, visitor use was reported as being “not high” and consisted of “irregular use” of a picnic area by “the Naracoorte and Lucindale communities” and “bushwalking for field nature study.”[
The conservation park is classified as an ]IUCN
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu ...
Category Ia protected area.[
]
References
External links
Fairview Conservation Park webpage on the Protected Planet websitethe Fairview Conservation Park webpage on the BirdsSA website
{{Limestone Coast
Conservation parks of South Australia
1960 establishments in Australia
Protected areas established in 1960
Limestone Coast