Calectasia Conservation Park

Calectasia Conservation Park, formerly the Calectasia National Parks Reserve, is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia in the locality of Wattle Range about 320 kilometres (200 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of the town of Penola. The conservation park occupies land in section 157 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Short on the southern side of the Robe - Penola Road. The land first acquired protected area status as the Calectasia National Parks Reserve proclaimed on 7 September 1967 under the National Parks Act 1966. On 27 April 1972, it was renamed as the Calectasia Conservation Park upon the proclamation of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 which repealed the former act along with other statutes concerned with conservation. As of 2016, it covered an area of 14 hectares (35 acres). In 1980, the statement of significance provided for the now-defunct Register of the National Estate states that it “preserves a population of the blue tinsel lily… now rare in South Australia and a small seasonal swamp important for water birds and eastern swamp rats”. In 1990, the conservation park was described as consisting of a "stranded dune system" remnant divided into two areas by a low-lying area that accounts for about 70% of the conservation park's area and which is “subject to inundation durin

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