Kalamurina Sanctuary

Kalamurina Sanctuary is a 6,700 km² pastoral lease in arid north-eastern South Australia. For many decades in the 20th century it operated as a cattle station. It was acquired in December 2007 by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy to become a nature reserve for biodiversity conservation and wildlife management. A high priority management need is a feral animal control program. [http://www.australianwildlife.org/kalamurina.asp AWC: Kalamurina] ]

Lying between the Simpson Desert Regional Reserve and the Lake Eyre National Park, the establishment of Kalamurina as a nature reserve creates a continuous protected area in central Australia larger than the State of Tasmania.

Landscape

Kalamurina borders on the north coast of Lake Eyre North and contains a large proportion of the Lake Eyre catchment. Its habitats include dunefields, gibber plains, desert woodlands, freshwater and saline lakes, and riparian habitats along the Warburton and Macumba Rivers and Kallakoopah Creek.

Wildlife

Threatened wildlife species on Kalamurina include the Crest-tailed Mulgara, Kultarr, Lake Eyre Dragon and Eyrean Grasswren.

References

External links

* [http://www.australianwildlife.org.au/aboutAWC.asp Australian Wildlife Conservancy]