| Type: | protected |
| Gum Tree Gully Conservation Park | |
| State: | sa |
| City: | Hindmarsh Tiers |
| Iucn Category: | III |
| Iucn Ref: | [1] |
| Coordinates: | -35.4222°N 138.5176°W |
| Relief: | yes |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Nearest Town Or City: | Myponga [2] |
| Area: | 1.11 |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Established Footnotes: | [4] |
Gum Tree Gully Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the locality of Hindmarsh Tiers about south of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-east of Myponga.[2]
The conservation park consists of the following land in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Encounter Bay – Allotment 31 of Deposited Plan 79974.[4] 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.[2] [5] As of 2018, it covered an area of .[3]
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.[6] [7]
The conservation park is categorised as an IUCN Category III protected area[1]