Waitpinga Conservation Park

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This article is about the Conservation Park in South Australia. For the nearby locality, see Waitpinga.
Waitpinga Conservation Park
South Australia
Waitpinga Conservation Park is located in South Australia
Waitpinga Conservation Park
Waitpinga Conservation Park
Nearest town or city Yankalilla
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Established 1 January 1960 (1960-01-01)[1]
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Visitation "very few visitors" (in 2009)[2]
Managing authorities Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
See also Protected areas of South Australia

Waitpinga Conservation Park is a protected area located in South Australia about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value). south of the town of the Yankalilla. The conservation park was proclaimed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 in 1972 in respect to an area of land already under statutory protection as the "Waitpinga National Park." As of 2011, it was described as being "dedicated to the conservation of the rare Coral Fern." The conservation park contains a "low open forest of stringbark and Pink Gum, over an understorey of bracken, tea-tree, sedges and grasses." Notable fauna includes the Chestnut-rumped heathwren which is cited in a source published by the Government of South Australia as being a nationally-listed endangered species. The conservation park is within the extent of "Illawong Swamp" which is listed as a wetland of national importance and immediately adjoins a forestry plantation operated by ForestrySA as part of its Second Valley Forest operation. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

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