Calperum Station (reserve)
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Calperum Station South Australia |
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 Calperum Station
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| Nearest town or city | Renmark |
| Coordinates | 33°49′0″S 140°34′0″E / 33.81667°S 140.56667°ECoordinates: 33°49′0″S 140°34′0″E / 33.81667°S 140.56667°E |
| Established | 1993 |
| Area | 2,386 km2 (921.2 sq mi) |
| Visitation | At least 2,700 (shared with Taylorville Station) (in 2011-12) |
| Managing authorities | Austland Services Pty Ltd on behalf of the Director of National Parks |
| Website | Calperum Station |
| Footnotes | Coordinates Managing authorities |
Calperum Station is a protected area located in the east of South Australia about 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) north west of the town of Renmark and about 250 kilometres (160 miles) east of the Adelaide city centre. It is a protected area under the control of the Australian government but managed by a private organisation under contract. Calperum Station is part of an area listed as "critical" for the survival of the bird species, black-eared miner. It is also part of a larger reserve system known as the Riverland Biosphere Reserve.
Calperum Station is sometimes referred to as Calperum Reserve.
The reserve is located on the north side of the Murray River, bounded to its western side by the Taylorville Station reserve and the Gluepot Reserve. The reserve covers an area of 2,386 square kilometres (921 square miles) and was described in 2008 as follows:
Some 95% of Calperum Station is covered by Mallee vegetation communities growing on the east-west red brown dunes of the Loxton-Parilla Sands. The remaining 5% is occupied by the Murray River floodplain which includes 4 wetlands: Merreti; Woolpolool; Clover; and Woolpolool Swamp, which are part of the 30,600 hectare ‘Riverland’ Ramsar site.
The purpose of the reserve is the protection of "Listed Critical Habitat" for the black-eared miner bird species, in conjunction with both the Taylorville Station reserve and the Gluepot Reserve. The reserve, along with Taylorville Station, is also reported as being "important for the conservation of the nationally vulnerable malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata), the regionally vulnerable bush stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius) and the nationally vulnerable southern bell frog (Litoria ramiformis)." The reserve is one of the "key components of the Riverland (formerly Bookmark) Biosphere Reserve."
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