Kathai Conservation Park

Protected area in South Australia

34°45′14″S 135°49′48″E / 34.754°S 135.83°E / -34.754; 135.83^[1]Established7 November 1985 (1985-11-07)^[3]Area81 hectares (200 acres)^[3]Managing authoritiesDepartment for Environment and WaterSee alsoProtected areas of South Australia

Kathai Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Duck Ponds about 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) south-west of Port Lincoln.^[2]

The conservation park is located on crown land in section 328 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Lincoln and which includes “a large hill” of a height of 145 metres (476 feet) above sea level called “Northside Hill.”^[2]^[4] It was constituted under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 on 7 November 1985 to “protect and conserve habitat and wildlife within the Uley catchment basin.” ^[2]^[5] It was proposed to be named as the Northside Hill Conservation Park but ‘Kathai’, the aboriginal name for the hill, was approved by the Geographic Names Board.^[4] As of July 2016, the conservation park covered an area of 81 hectares (200 acres).^[3]

The conservation park is dominated by an “open mallee forest” of coastal white mallee over an understorey consisting of tall shrubs of dryland tea-tree. The purple-flowered mallee which is considered to be “regionally rare“ is found within its boundaries.^[2]

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab )". CAPAD 2016. Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE). 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Conservation Parks of Lower Eyre Peninsula Management Plan" (PDF). Department for Environment and Heritage. 2007. pp. 1 and 15. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 11 July 2016)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. 11 July 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Search result for "Kathai Conservation Park" (Record no. SA0034383) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities", "Hundreds" and " Place names (gazetteer)"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
^ "NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT, 1972: SECTION 30—KATHAI CONSERVATION PARK CONSTITUTED" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia: 1362. 7 November 1985. Retrieved 18 January 2017.