Nilpena Ediacara National Park
| Ediacara Conservation Park South Australia | |
|---|---|
IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)[1] | |
  Ediacara Conservation Park | |
| Nearest town or city | Leigh Creek |
| Coordinates | 30°48′20.52″S 138°8′5.28″E / 30.8057000°S 138.1348000°E[1] |
| Established | 11 November 1993[2] |
| Area | 22.12 km2 (8.5 sq mi)[2] |
| Visitation | "a small number of visitors each year" (in 2012)[3] |
| Managing authorities | Department for Environment and Water |
| See also | Protected areas of South Australia |
Ediacara Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south west of the town of Leigh Creek in the state's Far North.[3]: 5
The conservation park was proclaimed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 on 26 April 2007 over land previously declared as a conservation reserve under the Crown Lands Act 1929 in 1993 and as a fossil reserve in 1958.[4][2][5][6][3]: ii [7] On 28 March 2019, the Government of South Australia purchased 60,000 hectares (150,000 acres) of adjacent land, to enlarge the conservation park by ten times.[8][9]
The conservation park protects and conserves an "assemblage of fossilised Ediacaran soft-bodied marine organisms of international importance," "places of significance" to the Adnyamathanha people, "remnants of mining history associated with the Ediacara mineral field," and an "important chenopod habitat."[3]: 4
The name of the conservation park is derived from the Adnyamathanha language name "Ithiaka-na-danha, where Ithi means ‘Zebra Finch’ and aka – na-danha means ‘to come out’" which is used as the name for the area in which the conservation park is located.[3]: 2
The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category VI protected area.[1] The fossil reserve is also listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.[10]
See also
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 "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 16 July 2015)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR). Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ a b c d e "Ediacara Conservation Park Management Plan 2012" (PDF). The Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR). 2012. pp. ii, 2, 4, 5 & 7. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ^ "National Parks and Wildlife (Ediacara Conservation Park) Proclamation 2007". The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. 26 April 2007. p. 1354. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ "Search result for Ediacara Conservation Park (record id no SA0021938)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI). 2009. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ "Search result for Ediacara Conservation Reserve (record id no SA0021939)". Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI). 2009a. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ "Ediacara Reserve, Ediacara Station via Beltana, SA, Australia - listing on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate (Place ID 7783)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. 21 October 1980. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ MacLennan, Leah. "Ediacara Conservation Park expanded to protect ancient Flinders Ranges fossils". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
{{cite web}}: Check|archiveurl=value (help) - ^ Finkel, Elizabeth (29 March 2019). "Saving Fossil Hill". Science. 363 (6434). American Association for the Advancement of Science: 1382–1385.
- ^ "Ediacara Fossil Reserve Palaeontological Site, Ediacara Conservation Reserve [Note that National Heritage Place 24300 Ediacara Fossil Site - Nilpena is 20km to the south]". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.