Warrenben Conservation Park

Warrenben Conservation Park South Australia
IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)
Warrenben Conservation Park
Nearest town or city	Marion Bay.
Coordinates
Established	9 January 1969
Area	4,058 ha (10,030 acres)
Managing authorities	Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Warrenben Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia about north-east of Marion Bay. The conservation park which held protected area status under previous legislation was re-proclaimed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 in 1972. The following statement of significance appears in the conservation park’s management plan:

Together with nearby Innes National Park, it conserves a substantial proportion of the natural habitat remaining on southern Yorke Peninsula. The park comprises an area of undulating limestone plains and low, stabilised dunes that remain well vegetated with mallee and tea-tree scrub and some sheoak woodlands. It provides habitat for a number of threatened species including the nationally and state vulnerable Annual Candles, state rare Goldsack’s Leek-orchid (Prasophyllum goldsackii), and the nationally and state vulnerable Malleefowl and Western Whipbird (Psophodes nigrogularis leucogaster).

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.

See also

• Southern Yorke Peninsula Important Bird Area

External links

• Warrenben Conservation Park webpage on protected planet