Calectasia Conservation Park

Protected area in South Australia

Calectasia Conservation Park Wattle Range, South Australia
IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)
Calectasia Conservation Park
Nearest town or city	Penola
Coordinates	37°21′28″S 140°33′03″E / 37.3577°S 140.5507°E / -37.3577; 140.5507
Established	7 September 1967 (1967-09-07)
Area	14 hectares (35 acres)
Managing authorities	Department for Environment and Water
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Calectasia Conservation Park, formerly the Calectasia National Parks Reserve, is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia in the locality of Wattle Range about 320 kilometres (200 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of the town of Penola.

The conservation park occupies land in section 157 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Short on the southern side of the Robe - Penola Road. The land first acquired protected area status as the Calectasia National Parks Reserve proclaimed on 7 September 1967 under the National Parks Act 1966. On 27 April 1972, it was renamed as the Calectasia Conservation Park upon the proclamation of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 which repealed the former act along with other statutes concerned with conservation. As of 2016, it covered an area of 14 hectares (35 acres).

In 1980, the statement of significance provided for the now-defunct Register of the National Estate states that it “preserves a population of the blue tinsel lily… now rare in South Australia and a small seasonal swamp important for water birds and eastern swamp rats.”

In 1990, the conservation park was described as consisting of a ‘’stranded dune system” remnant divided into two areas by a low-lying area which accounts for about 70% of the conservation park's area and which is “subject to inundation during the wetter months of the year.” The area in the south supports a brown stringybark woodland with an understorey of Austral grass tree, the ‘low-lying area’ supports “a dense grassland of mainly introduced species” while the area in the north supports a “low woodland of brown stringybark with large scattered desert banksia… and a dense heath understorey.” The blue tinsel lily grows in the north east part of the conservation park where a protective enclosure has been erected around the main stand of the plant. Additional protection exists for the species in the form of a vermin proof fence to the perimeter of the conservation park.

The conservation park was within the part of the state that was burnt during the Ash Wednesday bushfires in February 1983.

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

References

^ "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab )". CAPAD 2016. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE). 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
^ "Search results for Calectasia Conservation Park' with the following datasets selected – 'Suburbs and Localities', 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Hundreds', 'Roads' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
^ Shard, A. J. (7 September 1967). "NATIONAL PARKS ACT, 1966: HUNDRED OF SHORT— CALECTASIA NATIONAL PARKS RESERVE" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. South Australian Government. p. 1266. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
^ "Protected Areas Information System Reserve List" (PDF). Government of South Australia. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
^ "Calectasia Conservation Park, Penola, SA, Australia (Place ID 8139)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government.
"No. 56 of 1972 (National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1972)". The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 660 & 700. 27 April 1972. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
^ South Australia. Department of Environment and Planning, National Parks and Wildlife Service, South East District (1990), Sutherland, Andrea (ed.), Small parks of the Lower South East Management Plans : South East South Australia (PDF), South Australia. Department of Environment and Planning (published October 1990), pp. 3 and 8, ISBN 978-0-7308-0481-9{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

This article incorporates text by Commonwealth of Australia available under the CC BY 3.0 AU licence.

External links

Calectasia Conservation Park webpage on the Protected Planet website

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