Peebinga Conservation Park
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Peebinga Conservation Park South Australia |
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IUCN category Ia (strict nature reserve)
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The conservation park is an important site for malleefowl
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 Peebinga Conservation Park
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| Nearest town or city | Pinnaroo |
| Coordinates | 34°58′39″S 140°49′22″E / 34.97750°S 140.82278°ECoordinates: 34°58′39″S 140°49′22″E / 34.97750°S 140.82278°E |
| Established | 14 March 1940 |
| Area | 33.61 km2 (13.0 sq mi) |
| Managing authorities | Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources |
| See also | Protected areas of South Australia |
Peebinga Conservation Park is a 34 km2protected area lying 40 km north of the town of Pinnaroo in the Murray Mallee region of south-eastern South Australia, about 240 km east of Adelaide and 10 km west of the Victorian border.
The conservation park contains much land that was previously cleared for agriculture. It is characterised by remnants of mallee woodland on low, stabilised dunes. with regenerating open shrubland and grassland on sand plains. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.
As well as grasses, the vegetation features ridge-fruited and slender-leaved mallee with warty cypress pine over broombush; the higher areas have square-fruited, red and white mallees.
Fauna found in the conservation park includes western grey kangaroos and short-beaked echidnas.
The conservation park has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports a relatively large population of malleefowl. It previously had a population of the eastern mallee subspecies of the western whipbird (Psophodes nigrogularis leucogaster), which is now locally extinct.Purple-gaped honeyeaters are present.
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