Fairview Conservation Park

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| type = protected

| name = Fairview Conservation Park

| city = Woolumbool

| state = sa

| 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}}

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| nearest_town_or_city = Lucindale{{cite web|title=Search result for "Fairview Conservation Park" (Record no. SA0023519) with the following layers selected - "Parcel labels", "Suburbs and Localities", "Hundreds", " Place names (gazetteer)" and "Road Labels"|url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/|work=Property Location Browser|publisher=Government of South Australia|access-date=21 January 2017|archive-date=12 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/|url-status=dead}}

| area = 13.94

| area_footnotes = {{cite web|title=Protected Areas Information System - reserve list (as of 17 Feb 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=27 March 2014}}

| established = 13 October 1960

| established_footnotes = {{cite journal|title= CROWN LANDS ACT, 1929-1957: HUNDRED OF WOOLUMBOOL-WILD LIFE RESERVE DEDICATED |journal=The South Australian Government Gazette |date= 4 July 1968|pages= 1014 |url= http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1960/42/1014.pdf |access-date=21 January 2017 |publisher=Government of South Australia}}

| visitation_num = 'not high'

| visitation_year = 1994

| visitation_footnotes = {{Citation | author1= | editor1-last= Owers|editor1-first= Terry | title=Small inland parks of the South East : management plan, East Region, South Australia | publication-date=1994 | publisher=Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Natural Resources Group | url= http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/sharedassets/public/park_management/parks_pdfs_sml_inlnd_pks_se_mp.pdf |pages=17–19 | access-date=20 August 2016}}

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Fairview Conservation Park (formerly the Fairview National Park) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Woolumbool about {{convert|17|km}} north of Lucindale in the state's Limestone Coast region.

The conservation park is located on land in sections 93, 98 and 61 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Woolumbool on the east side of Woolumbool Road. Sections 93 and 98 were constituted under the Crown Lands Act 1929 on 13 October 1960 as a wild life reserve. On 9 November 1967, sections 93 and 98 were proclaimed under the National Parks Act 1966 as Fairview National Park.{{cite web|last1= Walsh |first1= Frank |title= NATIONAL PARKS ACT, 1966: VARIOUS NATIONAL PARKS NAMED. |url= http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1967/51/2043.pdf |website=South Australian Government Gazette|publisher=South Australian Government|access-date=17 March 2018|page= 2043 |date=9 November 1967 }} In 1972, it was constituted as a conservation park upon the proclamation of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 on 27 April 1972.{{cite journal|title= No. 56 of 1972 (National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1972) |journal=The South Australian Government Gazette |date= 27 April 1972 |page= 700 |url= http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/num_act/npawa56o1972293/|access-date=20 January 2017 |publisher=Government of South Australia}} In 1984, additional land consisting of section 61 in the Hundred of Woolumbool located immediately south of the original proclamation was added to the conservation park.{{cite journal|title= NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT, 1972: SECTIONS 29 AND 30: HUNDRED OF WOOLUMBOOL—ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES OF FAIRVIEW CONSERVATION PARK |journal=The South Australian Government Gazette |date= 8 November 1984|pages= 1478 |url= http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/1984/56/1478.pdf |access-date=21 January 2017 |publisher=Government of South Australia}} {{as of|2016|July}}, the conservation park covered an area of {{convert|13.94|km2}}.

As of 1994, the conservation park was described as follows:

… two semi-permanent lagoons, extensive areas of seasonally inundated flats, sandy flats and ridges, and limestone ridges. A South Australian swamp paper-bark (Melaleuca halmaturorum) association, with sedges and sandy beaches characterises the lagoon edges. Open heath and tussock grasslands cover the seasonally inundated flats, while a low open woodland of South Australian blue gum (Eucalyptus leucoxylon) and rough-barked manna gum (E. viminalis subsp. cygnetensis) occupies the sandy flats and limestone ridges.

As of 1994, visitor use was reported as being “not high” and consisted of “irregular use” of a picnic area by “the Naracoorte and Lucindale communities” and “bushwalking for field nature study.”

The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category Ia protected area.