Protected areas of South Australia consists of

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s located within

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

and its immediate onshore waters and which are managed by

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agencies. As of March 2018, South Australia contains 359 separate protected areas declared under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972'', the ''Crown Land Management Act 2009'' and the ''Wilderness Protection Act 1992'' which have a total land area of or 21.5% of the state's area.

Jurisdiction

The jurisdiction for legislation of protected areas within South Australia and the immediate onshore waters known officially as ‘the coastal waters and waters within the limits of South Australia' belongs to the South Australian government. The major piece of legislation concerned with the creation and the subsequent management of protected areas is the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972''. Protected areas created by this Act form the majority of South Australia’s contribution to the

National Reserve System Australia's National Reserve System (NRS) is a network of more than 10,000 Commonwealth plus state and territory protected areas which, in combination, on a national scale, protect more than , greater than 17% of the continent, of unique biodiv ...

. Other state legislation that may create protected areas include the following: ''Forestry Act 1950'', ''Wilderness Protection Act 1992'', ''Historic Shipwrecks Act 1981'', ''River Murray Act 2003'', ''Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary Act 2005'', ''Fisheries Management Act 2007'', ''Marine Parks Act 2007'', ''Crown Land Management Act 2009'', ''Arkaroola Protection Act 2012'' and ''Native Vegetation Act 1991''. While the

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does not have the power under the

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to legislate for protected areas within South Australia, its treaty obligations and its constitutional responsibilities do permit it to develop policy for protected areas and to enter into agreements concerning protected areas. Examples include nomination of sites under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (also known as the

Ramsar Convention The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands). It is also known as the Convention on Wetlands. It i ...

) and establishment of agreements for

Indigenous Protected Area An Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is a class of protected area used in Australia; each is formed by voluntary agreement with Indigenous Australians, and declared by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander representative organisations ...

''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972''

The ''National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972'' (also known as the ‘National Parks Act’) is the principal legislation in South Australia in respect to the establishment and management of protected areas. The act uses the term ‘reserve’ in lieu of the term ‘protected area’ while the agency which administers the act generally uses the term 'park'. It is concerned with the establishment and management of reserves, establishment of sanctuaries, conservation of native plants and animals, declaration of protected animals, the management of protected animals in respect to taking, keeping,

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ing and harvesting, and the control of

hunting Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products (fur/ hide, bone/tusks, horn/antler, e ...

. The act is administered by the

Department for Environment and Water The Department for Environment and Water (DEW) is a department of the Government of South Australia. Created on 1 July 2012 by the merger of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department for Water as the Department of ...

(DEW). As of February 2014, reserves declared under this act totalled 320 with a total area of or 19.6% of South Australia's area. , there are around 360 parks across South Australia subject to the act and National Parks Regulations. The following types of reserves are listed within the Act:

national park A national park is a natural park in use for conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual ...

s, conservation parks,

game reserve A game reserve (also known as a wildlife preserve or a game park) is a large area of land where wild animals live safely or are hunted in a controlled way for sport. If hunting is prohibited, a game reserve may be considered a nature reserve; ...

s, recreation parks and regional reserves.

National Parks

National parks are "areas considered to be of national significance due to wildlife, natural features of the land, or Aboriginal or European heritage". As of May 2020, updated December 2021, CC-BY icon

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licence. the following national parks have been declared: * Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary—Winaityinaityi Pangkara * Belair * Canunda * Cleland (2021) * Coffin Bay * Coorong * Deep Creek (2021) * Flinders Chase *

Gawler Ranges The Gawler Ranges are a range of stoney hills in South Australia to the north of Eyre Peninsula. The Eyre Highway skirts the south of the ranges. The Gawler Ranges National Park is in the ranges north of Kimba, South Australia, Kimba and Wudinna ...

* Glenthorne–Ityamaiitpinna Yarta (2020) * Great Australian Bight Marine * Ikara-Flinders Ranges * Dhilba Guuranda-Innes *

Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre Lake Eyre ( ), officially known as Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, is an endorheic lake in east-central Far North South Australia, some north of Adelaide. The shallow lake is the depocentre of the vast endorheic Lake Eyre basin, and contains the ...

* Lake Frome National Park (2021) *

Lake Gairdner Lake Gairdner is a large endorheic salt lake in the Australian state of South Australia, to the north of the Eyre Peninsula. When in flood, the lake is considered the third largest salt lake in Australia. Description Lake Gairdner is located a ...

Lake Torrens Lake Torrens (Kuyani: ''Ngarndamukia'') is a large ephemeral, normally endorheic salt lake in central South Australia. After sufficiently extreme rainfall events, the lake flows out through the Pirie-Torrens corridor to the Spencer Gulf. Isl ...

* Lincoln * Malkumba-Coongie Lakes * Mount Remarkable * Munga-Thirri–Simpson Desert (2021) *

Murray River The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) (Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta: ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is Australia's longest river at extent. Its tributaries include five of the next six longest ...

* Naracoorte Caves * Nilpena Ediacara National Park * Nullarbor *

Onkaparinga River The Onkaparinga River, known as Ngangkiparri or Ngangkiparingga ("place of the women’s river") in the Kaurna language, is a river located in the Southern Adelaide region in the Australian state of South Australia. Rising in the Mount Lofty Ra ...

* Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges * Wapma Thura–Southern Flinders Ranges National Park (2021) * Witjira

Conservation Parks

Conservation parks are "areas protected for the purpose of conserving wildlife or the natural or historic features of the land". As of March 2018, updated December 2021 (after five national parks had been created, incorporating several former conservation parks), the following conservation parks have been declared: *

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* Acraman Creek * Aldinga Scrub * Althorpe Islands * Angove * Avoid Bay Islands * Baird Bay Islands * Bakara * Bandon * Bangham *

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* Bascombe Well * Baudin * Baudin Rocks *

Beachport Beachport is a small coastal town in the Australian state of South Australia about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west of the municipal seat in Millicent, located at the northern end of Rivoli Bay. Beachport has ...

* Beatrice Islet * Belt Hill *

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* Big Heath * Billiatt * Bimbowrie * Bird Islands * Black Hill * Black Rock * Boondina * Brookfield * Bullock Hill * Busby Islet * Butchers Gap * Calectasia * Calpatanna Waterhole * Cap Island * Cape Blanche * Cape Gantheaume * Cape Willoughby * Caralue Bluff * Carappee Hill * Carcuma * Caroona Creek * Carpenter Rocks * Carribie * Chadinga * Charleston * Christmas Rocks * Clements Gap * Clinton * Cocata * Cooltong * Corrobinnie Hill * Cox Scrub * Cromer * Cudlee Creek * Custon * Cygnet Estuary * Danggali * Darke Range * Desert Camp * Dingley Dell * Douglas Point *

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* Eba Island * Elliot Price * Eric Bonython * Ettrick * Ewens Ponds * Fairview * Ferguson * Ferries-McDonald * Finniss * Fort Glanville * Fowlers Bay * Franklin Harbor * Furner *

Gambier Islands The Gambier Islands ( or ) are an archipelago in French Polynesia, located at the southeast terminus of the Tuamotu archipelago. They cover an area of , and are made up of the Mangareva Islands, a group of high islands remnants of a caldera alo ...

* Geegeela * Giles *

Glen Roy Glen Roy ( gd, Gleann Ruaidh, meaning "red glen") in the Lochaber area of the Highlands of Scotland is a glen noted for the geological phenomenon of three loch terraces known as the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy. The terraces formed along the s ...

* Goose Island *

Gower Gower ( cy, Gŵyr) or the Gower Peninsula () in southwest Wales, projects towards the Bristol Channel. It is the most westerly part of the historic county of Glamorgan. In 1956, the majority of Gower became the first area in the United Kingdom ...

* Grass Tree * Greenly Island *

Guichen Bay Guichen Bay, ( French: Baie de Guichen) is a bay located on the south-east coast of the Australian state of South Australia about northwest of the regional city of Mount Gambier and about south-southeast of the state capital of Adelaide. It w ...

* Gum Lagoon * Gum Tree Gully * Hacks Lagoon * Hale * Hallett Cove * Hanson Scrub * Heggaton * Hesperilla *

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* Hogwash Bend * Hopkins Creek * Horsnell Gully * Ironstone Hill * Jip Jip * Kaiserstuhl * Kanku-Breakaways * Kapunda Island * Karte *

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* Kellidie Bay * Kelly Hill * Kelvin Powrie * Kenneth Stirling * Kinchina * Kulliparu * Kungari * Kyeema *

Lake Frome Lake Frome / Munda is a large endorheic lake in the Australian state of South Australia to the east of the Northern Flinders Ranges. It is a large, shallow, unvegetated salt pan, long and wide, lying mostly below sea level and having a total s ...

* Lake Gilles * Lake Hawdon South * Lake Newland * Lake St Clair * Lashmar * Lathami * Laura Bay * Lawari * Lesueur * Leven Beach * Lincoln * Lipson Island * Little Dip * Lowan * Lower Glenelg River * Maize Island Lagoon * Malgra * Mamungari * Mantung * Marino *

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* Marne Valley * Martin Washpool * Martindale Hall *

Mary Seymour Mary Seymour (30 August 1548 – c. 1550), born at her father’s country seat, Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, was the only daughter of Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, and Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII of England. Although ...

* Media Island * Messent * Middlecamp Hills * Mimbara * Minlacowie * Moana Sands * Mokota * Monarto * Monarto Woodlands *

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* Moody Tank *

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* Morialta * Mount Billy * Mount Boothby * Mount Brown * Mount Dutton Bay * Mount George * Mount Magnificent * Mount Monster * Mount Scott * Mount Taylor * Mowantjie Willauwar * Mullinger Swamp * Munyaroo * Murrunatta * Mylor * Myponga * Nene Valley * Nepean Bay * Neptune Islands * Newland Head * Ngarkat * Ngaut Ngaut * Nicolas Baudin Island * Nixon-Skinner *

Nuyts Archipelago The Nuyts Archipelago is an island group located in South Australia in the Great Australian Bight to the south of the town of Ceduna on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It consisting of mostly granitic islands and reefs that provid ...

* Nuyts Reef * Olive Island * Padthaway * Pandappa * Para Wirra * Paranki Lagoon * Parndana * Peachna * Peebinga * Pelican Lagoon * Penambol * Penguin Island * Penola * Piccaninnie Ponds * Pigface Island * Pike River * Pine Hill Soak * Pinkawillinie * Point Bell * Point Davenport * Point Labatt * Pooginook * Poonthie Ruwe * Porter Scrub * Pualco Range * Pullen Island * Pureba * Ramco Point * Ramsay * Red Banks * Reedy Creek * Ridley * Rilli Island * Rocky Island (North) * Rocky Island (South) * Roonka * Rudall * Salt Lagoon Islands * Sandy Creek * Sceale Bay * Scott * Scott Creek * Seal Bay * Searcy Bay * Seddon * Shannon * Sheoak Hill *

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* Sinclair Island * Sir Joseph Banks Group * Sleaford Mere * Spring Gully * Spring Mount *

Stipiturus The emu-wrens (''Stipiturus'') are a genus of passerine birds in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. They are found only in Australia, where they inhabit scrub, heathland and grassland. They are small birds, 12–19 cm long with the ...

* Swan Reach * Talapar * Talisker * Tallaringa * Tantanoola Caves * Telford Scrub * The Dutchmans Stern * The Knoll *

The Pages The Pages is an island group in the Australian state of South Australia consisting of two small islands and a reef located in Backstairs Passage, a strait separating Kangaroo Island and the Fleurieu Peninsula. The island group has been locate ...

* The Plug Range * Thidna * Tilley Swamp * Torrens Island * Troubridge Island * Tucknott Scrub * Tumby Island * Venus Bay * Verran Tanks * Vivigani Ardune * Vivonne Bay * Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs * Wahgunyah * Waitpinga * Waldegrave Islands * Wanilla * Wanilla Land Settlement *

Warren A warren is a network of wild rodent or lagomorph, typically rabbit burrows. Domestic warrens are artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. The term evolved from the medieval Angl ...

* Warrenben *

West Island The West Island () is the unofficial name given to the cities, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Dorval, Pointe-Clair ...

* Wharminda * Whidbey Isles * White Dam *

Whyalla Whyalla was founded as "Hummocks Hill", and was known by that name until 1916. It is the fourth most populous city in the Australian state of South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier and Gawler and along with Port Pirie and Port Augus ...

* Wiljani * Wills Creek * Winninowie * Wittelbee * Woakwine * Wolseley Common * Yalpara * Yeldulknie * Yulte * Yumbarra Former conservation parks include Cape Hart, Cape Torrens, Cleland, Ediacara, Eurilla,

Investigator Group The Investigator Group is an archipelago in South Australia that consists of Flinders Island and five island groups located off the western coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It is named after by her commander, Matthew Flinders when he explore ...

, Isles of St Francis, Mount Rescue, Mount Shaugh, Munga-Thirri–Simpson Desert Conservation Park, Naracoorte Caves, Port Gawler and Scorpion Springs, Spaniards Gully, Telowie Gorge, Western River, and Wirrabara Range.

Game Reserves

Game reserves are "areas set aside for conservation of wildlife and the management of game for seasonal hunting". As of March 2018, the following game reserves have been declared: Former game reserves include Coorong and Katarapko.

Recreation Parks

Recreation parks are 'areas managed for public recreation and enjoyment in a natural setting.' As of March 2018, the following recreation parks have been declared:

Regional Reserves

Regional reserves are "areas proclaimed for the purpose of conserving wildlife or natural or historical features while allowing responsible use of the area's natural resources". As of March 2018, the following regional reserves had been declared(since November 2021 excluding Lake Frome and Munga-Thirri–Simpson Desert, since they were converted into national parks):

Other South Australian legislation

Conservation Reserves

Conservation reserves are a parcels of 'land set aside for conservation of natural and cultural features under the ''Crown Land Management Act 2009''.' As of March 2018, the following conservation reserves have been declared:'' As of March 2018, reserves declared under the ''Crown Land Management Act 2009'' totalled 15 with a total area of or less than 0.1% of South Australia’s area.

Native Forest Reserves

The ''Forestry Act 1950'' allows for the declaration of forest reserves for ‘purposes relating to the conservation, development and management of land supporting native flora and fauna…’ Native forest reserves are administered by the

South Australian Forestry Corporation South Australian Forestry Corporation (trading as ForestrySA) is a business enterprise owned by the Government of South Australia which is responsible for management of publicly owned plantation forests in South Australia including the commercial ...

(trading as ForestrySA) which is a wholly owned state government business. As of March 2014, the following native forest reserves which are located in the Southern Flinders Ranges, the

Mount Lofty Ranges The Mount Lofty Ranges are a range of mountains in the Australian state of South Australia which for a small part of its length borders the east of Adelaide. The part of the range in the vicinity of Adelaide is called the Adelaide Hills and ...

and the Limestone Coast have been declared:

Wilderness Protection Areas

The ''Wilderness Protection Act 1992'' was established in 1992 to provide for ‘the protection of wilderness and the restoration of land to its condition before European colonisation’. The day-to-day administration of the act is carried out by DEW. As of March 2018, the following areas have been declared: As of March 2018, reserves declared under the ''Wilderness Protection Act 1992'' totalled 14 with a total area of or 1.9% of South Australia’s area.

Protected zones for Historic Shipwreck sites

The ''Historic Shipwrecks Act 1981'' which is administered by DEW allows for the creation of protected zones over land and water around historic shipwrecks. The following protected zones have been declared:

River Murray protection area

The ''River Murray Act 2003'' which is administered by DEW has provision for ‘the protection and enhancement of the

River Murray The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) ( Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta: ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is Australia's longest river at extent. Its tributaries include five of the next six longest ...

and related areas and ecosystems’. As of September 2010, the following protection areas have been designated: *The

floodplain A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...

of the

within South Australia including Lake Alexandrina, Lake Albert and the Coorong. *The watershed of the following tributaries arising from the east side of the

Marne Marne can refer to: Places France *Marne (river), a tributary of the Seine *Marne (department), a département in northeastern France named after the river * La Marne, a commune in western France *Marne, a legislative constituency (France) Nether ...

, Bremer and Finniss rivers.

Aquatic reserves

The following areas have been declared under the ''Fisheries Management Act 2007'' (SA). Aquatic reserves which are managed by the Department of Primary Industries & Regions (PIRSA), were 'established to protect the habitat, ecosystems and communities of the rich variety of underwater organisms found in the marine and estuarine waters of South Australia'. Aquatic reserves are considered to be

IUCN Category II IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The enlisting of such areas is part ...

protected areas.

Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary

Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary (ADS) is a sanctuary area intended to protect the

Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (''Tursiops aduncus'') is a species of bottlenose dolphin. This dolphin grows to long, and weighs up to . It lives in the waters around India, northern Australia, South China, the Red Sea, and the eastern c ...

(''Tursiops aduncus'') population residing in the Port Adelaide River estuary and

Barker Inlet The Barker Inlet is a tidal inlet of the Gulf St Vincent in Adelaide, South Australia, named after Captain Collet Barker who first sighted it in 1831. It contains one of the southernmost mangrove forests in the world, a dolphin sanctuary, seagra ...

as well as protecting and enhancing the Port Adelaide River estuary and Barker Inlet. The sanctuary was declared under the ''Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary Act 2005'' and is managed by DEW.

Marine parks

Marine parks are

marine protected areas Marine protected areas (MPA) are protected areas of seas, oceans, estuaries or in the US, the Great Lakes. These marine areas can come in many forms ranging from wildlife refuges to research facilities. MPAs restrict human activity for a conser ...

located within the immediate onshore waters of SA set aside under the ''Marine Parks Act 2007'' (SA) 'to preserve the biological diversity of the state's coastal, estuarine and marine environments while allowing ecologically sustainable use of the area's natural resources.' As of December 2013, the following marine parks have been declared: * Far West Coast Marine Park * Nuyts Archipelago Marine Park * West Coast Bays Marine Park * Investigator Marine Park * Thorny Passage Marine Park * Sir Joseph Banks Group Marine Park * Neptune Islands Group (Ron and Valerie Taylor) Marine Park * Gambier Islands Group Marine Park * Franklin Harbor Marine Park * Upper Spencer Gulf Marine Park * Eastern Spencer Gulf Marine Park * Southern Spencer Gulf Marine Park * Lower Yorke Peninsula Marine Park * Upper Gulf St Vincent Marine Park *

Encounter Marine Park Encounter Marine Park is a marine park in South Australia. It is in the Fleurieu Peninsula in state of South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the ...

* Western Kangaroo Island Marine Park * Southern Kangaroo Island Marine Park * Upper South East Marine Park * Lower South East Marine Park

Arkaroola Protection Area

The ''Arkaroola Protection Act 2012'' which commenced operation on 26 April 2012 was created to ‘establish the Arkaroola Protection Area; to provide for the proper management and care of the area; and to prohibit mining activities in the area’. The protection area which is located north of

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includes the Arkaroola Pastoral Lease and the

Mawson Plateau 230px, Typical Mawson Plateau terrain; rolling hills, with sparse vegetation interspersed with numerous eroded granite boulders. The Mawson Plateau, located at is part of the northern Flinders Ranges, located on the Mount Freeling pastoral lease ...

part of the Mount Freeling Pastoral Lease. The former lease which has not been stocked for over 30 years is operated for the purpose of conservation and tourism under the name, Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary. The protection area is reported as satisfying the definition of a "category II National Park".

Native vegetation heritage agreements

A native vegetation heritage agreements, usually known as a heritage agreement, is a legally binding agreement between a landowner and the Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Conservation where the landowner agrees to protect native vegetation in perpetuity. In return, the Minister may agree to reduce statutory fees such as local government rates or offer assistance in term of funding of works such as fencing or provision of expert advice to ‘protecting and improving the conservation value of the heritage agreement area’. The enabling legislation is the ''Native Vegetation Act 1991''. Land covered by heritage agreements is considered to meet

IUCN Category III IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The enlisting of such areas is part ...

. As of February 2014, 1537 agreements in respect to of land within SA or 0.64% of the area of SA have been entered into between landowners and the minister. A notable example is the Gluepot Reserve.

Australian government

World heritage site

As of March 2015, Naracoorte Caves National Park is the sole

World Heritage Site A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). World Heritage Sites are designated by UNESCO for h ...

located in South Australia. It was co-listed under the name “Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte)” with Riversleigh located in

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ...

during 1994 in recognition of the

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assemblages present at both sites which are considered to be a “superb illustration of the key stages of evolution of Australia’s unique fauna”.

Ramsar sites

As a contracting party to the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (known as the Ramsar Convention), Australia is encouraged ‘to nominate sites containing representative, rare or unique wetlands, or that are important for conserving biological diversity, to the

List of Wetlands of International Importance This is the list of Wetlands of International Importance as defined by the Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands, recognizing the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands and their economic, cultural, scientif ...

’. As of March 2014, the Australian Government has nominated the following Ramsar sites within South Australia: * Banrock Station Wetland Complex * Bool and Hacks Lagoons * Coongie Lakes * Coorong and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Wetland * Piccaninnie Ponds Karst Wetlands *

Riverland The Riverland is a region of South Australia. It covers an area of along the River Murray from where it flows into South Australia from New South Wales and Victoria downstream to Blanchetown. The major town centres are Renmark, Berri, L ...

Indigenous Protected Areas

An Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is a voluntary agreement between owners of indigenous owned land (known as traditional owners) and the Australian government which is intended to ‘promote biodiversity and cultural resource conservation on indigenous owned land’. As of March 2014, there are six IPAs in existence within South Australia: *Antara-Sandy Bore *Kalka-Pipalyatjara * Mount Willoughby *

Nantawarrina Nepabunna, also spelt Nipapanha, is a small community in the northern Flinders Ranges in north-eastern South Australia, about north of Adelaide. It is located just west of the Gammon Ranges, and the traditional owners are the Adnyamathanha peop ...

* Watarru and Walalkara * Yalata

Biosphere reserves

Two biosphere reserves belonging to the UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve program are located within South Australia - the Mamungari Conservation Park and the Riverland Biosphere Reserve. The Mamungari Conservation Park in western South Australia which was formerly known as the Unnamed Conservation Park is co-managed by its traditional owners and DEW. The Riverland Biosphere Reserve is located in the

near Renmark. Two of its components are Calperum and Taylorville Stations which were respectively purchased by the

Chicago Zoological Society Brookfield Zoo, also known as the Chicago Zoological Park, is a zoo located in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois. It houses around 450 species of animals in an area of . It opened on July 1, 1934, and quickly gained international recogni ...

in 1993 and the Australian Landscape Trust in 2000 with the ownership being deeded to the

Director of National Parks Director of National Parks is a government-owned corporation of the Australian government responsible for the management of a portfolio of terrestrial and marine protected areas proclaimed under the ''Environment Protection and Biodiversity Cons ...

. Both properties are managed by the Australian Landscape Trust.

Footnotes

References

External links

Parks SA homepage, formerly the National Parks and Wildlife ServicePrimary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA) Fisheries Aquatic reserves and marine parksDEW Maritime Heritage homepage
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Protected areas 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 ...