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Sheoak Hill Conservation 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 on the
Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of
Miltalie about north-west of
Cowell.
Hundred of James
The County of Jervois is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula. It was proclaimed on 24 January 1878 and named after William Jervois, the Governor of South Australia ...
which separated by a road connecting the town centres of Cowell in the south-east and Kimba in the north-west. The land on the south-western side of the road which consists of sections 49, 50 and 51, was constituted as a conservation park on 30 November 1978. The land on the north-eastern side of the road which is described in cadastral terms as “allotment 100 of Deposited Plan No. 38006” was dedicated as a conservation reserve known as the Sheoak Hill Conservation Reserve in 11 November 1993. On 6 September 2012, the land within the conservation reserve was added to the conservation park. As of 2014, access permitted under the state’s ''Mining Act 1971'' only applied to the land formerly in the conservation reserve.[
As of 2014, it and three adjacent conservation parks were described by their managing authority as follows:] These parks (sic) are dominated by relatively undisturbed mallee forest, and woodland associations with a Melaleuca
''Melaleuca'' () is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles or tea-trees (although the last name is also applied to species of '' Leptospermum''). They range in size ...
shrub understorey. They provide important habitat for Malleefowl populations and contain significant species including Gilbert’s Whistler, Bentham’s Goodenia and the Six-nerve Spine-bush which are listed as rare under the ''National Parks and Wildlife Act''.
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.[
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See also
* Protected areas of South Australia
References
External links
Entry for the Sheoak Hill Conservation Park and Sheoak Hill Conservation Reserve on the Protected Planet website
{{Protected areas of South Australia, state=collapsed
Conservation parks of South Australia
Protected areas established in 1978
1978 establishments in Australia
Eyre Peninsula