Bakara Conservation Park

Bakara Conservation Park is a protected area of mallee scrub in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. It is located in the locality of Maggea on the southern side of the Stott Highway.^[1]

Bakara Conservation Park Maggea[1], South Australia
IUCN category Ia (strict nature reserve)[2]
Bakara Conservation Park, January 2015
Bakara Conservation Park
Nearest town or city	Maggea[1]
Coordinates	34°30′45″S 139°56′16″E
Established	15 May 1986[3]
Area	20.29 km2 (7.8 sq mi)[4]
Managing authorities	Department for Environment and Water
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

The conservation park consists of land in sections 54 and 55 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Bakara. Section 55 was compulsory acquired by the Government of South Australia in 1983 and was proclaimed on 15 May 1986 as a conservation park under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972. It was extended to the north by the addition of Section 54 on 6 August 2009.^[5][3][6] As of 2015, it covered an area of 20.29 square kilometres (7.83 sq mi).^[4]

The conservation park provides habitat for malleefowl, and local landholders are involved in active fox and rabbit control in the conservation park and nearby farmland.^[7]

It is classified as an IUCN IUCN Category Ia protected area.^[2]

References

1. "Search results for 'Bakara Conservation Park' with the following datasets selected - 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Government Towns', 'Hundreds', and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australian. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
2. "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab )". CAPAD 2016. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE). 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
3. Cornwall, J.R. (15 May 1986). "NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT, 1972: SECTION 30 BAKARA CONSERVATION PARK CONSTITUTED" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 1255. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
4. "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. 25 November 2014. p. 1. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
5. Foulkes, J.; Armstrong, D. (2000). Foulkes, J. N.; Gillen, J. S. (eds.). A Biological Survey of the Murray Mallee, South Australia (PDF). Department for Transport, Urban Planning and the Arts, Government of South Australia. p. 23. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
6. "National Parks and Wildlife (Bakara Conservation Park) Proclamation 2009". The South Australian Government Gazette. Attorney-General's Department, Government of South Australia. 6 August 2009. p. 3497. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
7. Johns, Malcolm (2011). "Paper 17 - Twenty years of Malleefowl conservation by the Mantung Maggea Land Management Group" (PDF). Proceedings of the 4th National Malleefowl Forum 2011: 114–115. Retrieved 2 February 2015.

External links

• Webpage on the Protected Planet website
• Webpage on the BirdsSA website