Cox Scrub Conservation Park

Cox Scrub Conservation Park
South Australia
Cox Scrub Conservation Park
Nearest town or city Mount Compass
Coordinates 35°21′22″S 138°44′14″E / 35.35611°S 138.73722°E / -35.35611; 138.73722Coordinates: 35°21′22″S 138°44′14″E / 35.35611°S 138.73722°E / -35.35611; 138.73722
Established 1 January 1970[1]
Area 5.44 km2 (2.1 sq mi)[1]
Managing authorities Department for Environment and Water
Website Cox Scrub Conservation Park
See also Protected areas of South Australia

Cox Scrub Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted localities of Ashbourne and Nangkita about 55 kilometres (34 miles) south of the state capital of Adelaide.[2]

In 1980, the conservation park was described as follows:[3]

This park preserves an uncommon vegetation type for the Mount Lofty Ranges, the principal vegetation being a low Eucalyptus baxteri open forest over banksia scrub. This habitat supports a wide variety of bird species including the threatened scaly thrush and the beautiful firetail. Notable mammal species are Isoodon obesulus, locally endangered and Rattus lutreolus, near the northern limit of its range in South Australia...

The park occupies an area of undulating sands overlying ironstone. Vegetation is chiefly an open scrub to low open forest of Eucalyptus baxteri, E. cosmophylla and E. fasciculosa over a heath understorey dominated by Banksia ornata. Extensive areas of almost pure sand heath dominated by Banksia ornata with Hakea, Casuarina, Grevillea, Acacia and Calytrix species also occur...

The park is in a minimally disturbed condition, the only previous landuse being beekeeping. Few introduced plant species are found in the park, rabbits are plentiful.

It is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.[4] In 1980, it was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 17 Feb 2014)" (PDF). Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Search result(s) for Cox Scrub Conservation Park (Record No. SA0008658) with the following layers being selected - "Parcel labels", "Suburbs and Localities", "Hundreds", "Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road labels"". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Cox Scrub Conservation Park - listing on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate (Place ID 6620)". Australian Heritage Database. Department of the Environment. 21 October 1980. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (see 'DETAIL' tab)". CAPAD 2012. Australian Government - Department of the Environment. 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
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