Английская Википедия:Brookfield Conservation Park
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Brookfield Conservation Park is a conservation park located in South Australia, about 130 km northeast of Adelaide.
History
The area that became Brookfield Conservation Park was first settled in 1836 as a pastoral lease.[1] Pioneer farming families kept sheep, which were confined in brush yards overnight and protected by shepherds living in simple slab huts.[1] The area was later named Glen Leslie Station; during this period, the station grazed up to 2000 sheep and eucalyptus mallees on the land were razed for wood and charcoal.[1] In 1971, using a $55,000 donation from the Forest Park Foundation of Peoria, the Chicago Zoological Society purchased the land as a conservation reserve for the southern-hairy nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons).[1][2] The station was renamed Brookfield Zoo Wombat Reserve, after Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, Illinois.[1][2][3] Six years later, the land was gifted to the Government of South Australia.[1][2] Brookfield Conservation Park was formally proclaimed on 6 July 1978, under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972.[1][3] Beginning in 2008, the park is now managed in partnership with Conservation Volunteers Australia.[3]
Wildlife
Brookfield Conservation Park comprises three main habitat types: open mallee Eucalyptus; arid woodland including sugarwood (Myoporum platycarpum) and dryland tea-tree (Melaleuca lanceolata); and arid shrubland including bluebush (Maireana spp).[3] The park is home to an important population of southern hairy-nosed wombats.[3] Other mammal species include fat-tailed dunnarts, common dunnarts, red kangaroos, and western grey kangaroos.[3] The park's birdlife includes two species of fairywren, the splendid fairywren and purple-backed fairywren.[4] Other notable birds include emus, ground cuckoo-shrikes, Australian owlet-nightjars and malleefowl.[3]
Gallery
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Dirt road running through the park.
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Accommodation for researchers.
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Derelict charcoal pit along the Charcoal Pits Walk.
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A southern hairy-nosed wombat.
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Two galahs.
References
External links
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