Bakara Conservation Park

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{{Infobox Australian place

| type = protected

| name = Bakara Conservation Park

| state = SA

| city= Maggea

| iucn_category = ia

| iucn_ref = {{cite web|title= Terrestrial Protected Areas of South Australia (refer 'DETAIL' tab ) |url= http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/761994ab-42cc-4f24-952c-c21221861884/files/capad2016sa.xlsx |work=CAPAD 2016|publisher=Australian Government, Department of the Environment (DoE) |access-date=21 February 2018 |date=2016}}

| image = DSC 2498 Porcupine grass (Triodia scariosa), Bakara Conservation Park, South Australia (16087722739).jpg

| caption = Bakara Conservation Park, January 2015

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| coordinates = {{coord|34|30|45|S|139|56|16|E|display=inline,title}}

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| established = 15 May 1986

| established_footnotes = {{cite web |last1=Cornwall |first1=J.R. |title=NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT, 1972: SECTION 30 BAKARA CONSERVATION PARK CONSTITUTED |url=http://www7.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1986/38/1255.pdf |website=The South Australian Government Gazette |publisher=Government of South Australia |access-date=10 January 2019 |page=1255 |date=15 May 1986}}

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| area = 20.29

| area_footnotes = {{cite web|title=Protected Areas Information System - reserve list |date=25 November 2014|url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/b88e6e26-4bd9-4c68-8fff-9e800114eb69/park-management-protected-areas-gen.pdf|publisher=Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources|access-date=2 February 2015|page=1}}

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Bakara Conservation Park is a protected area of mallee scrub in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. It is located in the locality of Maggea on the southern side of the Stott Highway.

The conservation park consists of land in sections 54 and 55 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Bakara. Section 55 was compulsory acquired by the Government of South Australia in 1983 and was proclaimed on 15 May 1986 as a conservation park under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972. It was extended to the north by the addition of Section 54 on 6 August 2009.{{cite book |last1=Foulkes |first1=J. |last2=Armstrong |first2=D. |editor1-last=Foulkes |editor1-first=J. N. |editor2-last=Gillen |editor2-first=J. S. |title=A Biological Survey of the Murray Mallee, South Australia |date=2000 |publisher=Department for Transport, Urban Planning and the Arts, Government of South Australia |page=23 |url=https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/sharedassets/public/science/kb-gen-bssa-murray-mallee.pdf |access-date=14 November 2019}}{{cite web |url=http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/proc/npawcpp2009564/ |title=National Parks and Wildlife (Bakara Conservation Park) Proclamation 2009 |publisher=Attorney-General's Department, Government of South Australia |access-date=2 February 2015 |date=6 August 2009 |work=The South Australian Government Gazette |page=3497}} As of 2015, it covered an area of {{convert|20.29|km2}}.

The conservation park provides habitat for malleefowl, and local landholders are involved in active fox and rabbit control in the conservation park and nearby farmland.{{cite journal |last1=Johns |first1=Malcolm |title=Paper 17 - Twenty years of Malleefowl conservation by the Mantung Maggea Land Management Group |journal=Proceedings of the 4th National Malleefowl Forum 2011 |date=2011 |pages=114-115 |url=http://www.malleefowlvictoria.org.au/2011Forum/Paper%2017.pdf |access-date=2 February 2015}}

It is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area, meaning that it is protected from all but light human use.