Gum Tree Gully Conservation Park

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| type = protected

| name = Gum Tree Gully Conservation Park

| state = sa

| city = Hindmarsh Tiers

| iucn_category = III

| 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 = Myponga

{{cite web|title= Search results for 'Gum Tree Gully Conservation Park' with the following datasets selected – 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Hundreds', 'Roads' and 'Gazetteer' |url= http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=roads&x=138.5695&y=-35.4233&z=13&uids=41,19,8,105,136&pinx=138.517280&piny=-35.423120&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Gum+Tree+Gully+Conservation+Park,+Park |website=Location SA Map Viewer |publisher= Government of South Australian |access-date=10 March 2019}}

| area = 1.11

| area_footnotes = {{cite web|title=Protected Areas Information System Reserve List |url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/files/sharedassets/public/park_management/protected-areas-reserve-list-march2018-gen.pdf |publisher=Government of South Australia |access-date=6 March 2019|date=9 March 2018 }}

| established = {{start date|2010|02|18|df=y}}

| established_footnotes = {{cite web|title=National Parks and Wildlife (Gum Tree Gully Conservation Park) Proclamation 2010 |url= http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/proc/npawtgcpp2010690/ |website=South Australian Government Gazette|publisher=Government of South Australia |access-date=10 March 2019|page= 832 |date=18 February 2010}}

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Gum Tree Gully Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the locality of Hindmarsh Tiers about {{convert|55|km}} south of the state capital of Adelaide and about {{convert|6|km}} south-east of Myponga.

The conservation park consists of the following land in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Encounter Bay – Allotment 31 of Deposited Plan 79974. The name was approved by the Surveyor General of South Australia on 18 August 2009 and is derived from a gully called Gum Tree Gully whose extent includes the conservation park.{{cite web|title= Search results for 'Gum Tree Gully' with the following datasets selected – 'NPW and Conservation Properties', 'Suburbs and Localities' and 'Gazetteer' |url= http://location.sa.gov.au/viewer/?map=topographic&x=138.52292&y=-35.42308&z=15&uids=41,19,105&pinx=138.517280&piny=-35.423120&pinTitle=Location&pinText=Gum+Tree+Gully,+Glly |website=Location SA Map Viewer |publisher= Government of South Australian |access-date=11 March 2019}} As of 2018, it covered an area of {{convert|1.11|km2}}.

Gum Tree Gully Conservation Park is reported as being one of the “new reserves” created as a “direct initiative” of the recovery plan for the Mount Lofty Ranges southern emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus intermedius) which is a bird species listed as endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.{{cite web|title= MOUNT LOFTY RANGES, SOUTHERN EMU-WREN; Caring for our Fleurieu swamps, Fact Sheet 4 |url= http://www.gwlap.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/4_Mount-Lofty-Ranges-Southern-Emu-wren.pdf |publisher=Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board|access-date=11 March 2019|page=4 |date=2012}}{{cite web|title= Stipiturus malachurus intermedius — Fleurieu Peninsula Southern Emu-wren, Mount Lofty Southern Emu-wren|url= http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=26005 |website=Species Profile and Threats Database|publisher=Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy|access-date=11 March 2019 |date=15 July 2016}}

The conservation park is categorised as an IUCN Category III protected area