Mount Willoughby Indigenous Protected Area - fact sheet
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources, February 2007
© Commonwealth of Australia
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The striking arid landscape of Mount Willoughby Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) covers 3,865 square kilometres where the Stony Plains and Great Victoria Desert Bioregions meet. The former pastoral property supports a remarkable collection of habitats, ranging from swamps and grassland to cracking clay pans, spectacular breakaway ranges and vivid red dune country.
Located on the Stuart Highway about 150 kilometres north of Coober Pedy, Mount Willoughby was purchased in 1996 by the Indigenous Land Corporation on behalf of the Tjyrilia Aboriginal Corporation, a small familybased company.
IPA funding is protecting important cultural heritage sites, including waterholes, rock pools and bush tucker sources, as well as historic European settler structures like huts and brush yards. Traditional knowledge about land management and cultural ways is also being saved, through workshops with the Traditional Owners.
The declaration of Mount Willoughby IPA in November 2002 was made under World Conservation Union (IUCN) Category VI - Managed Resource Protected Area: Protected Area managed mainly for the sustainable use of natural ecosystems, and Category II - Protected Area managed mainly for ecosystem conservation and recreation.
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