Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve

Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve Western Australia
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve
Nearest town or city	Cervantes
Coordinates	30°41′46″S 115°10′35″E / 30.69611°S 115.17639°E / -30.69611; 115.17639Coordinates: 30°41′46″S 115°10′35″E / 30.69611°S 115.17639°E / -30.69611; 115.17639
Established	1979
Area	10,841 ha
Managing authorities	Department of Parks and Wildlife (Western Australia)
See also	List of protected areas of Western Australia

Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve (sometimes called Southern Beekeepers Nature Reserve) is a nature reserve in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately 240 kilometres (149 mi) north of Perth. It is one of 90 nature reserves operated in the Department of Parks and Wildlife's Moora District. Access to much of the reserve is provided by Indian Ocean Drive. Information sites at Southern Beekeeper's include the Molah Hill vista point and Hill River. The reserve contains 32 registered apiary sites, however not all are used every year.

The reserve is bordered to the southeast by Cervantes, Western Australia, and to the southwest by Nambung National Park. A large area of vacant Crown Land is found along much of the eastern edge.

From 1889 until it was officially closed in 1971, a between Dongara and Perth ran through what is now Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve and Nambung National Park. Southern Beekeeper's was gazetted by the Department of Lands and Surveys, Western Australia in 1979, "for the purpose of 'Apiculture and Conservation of Flora'." Officially the reserve did not have a name, but was known locally as Southern Beekeeper's as beekeeping had been taking place in the area for generations, with beekeepers starting on the coastal plains during the spring, then moving on as the season progressed.

Starting at Southern Beekeeper's in the north, and extending south across Nambung National Park and Wanagarren Nature Reserve, the area has 18 beaches along 42 kilometres (26 mi) of coastline. Some sandy areas have large, active parabolic dunes.