| Type: | protected |
| Kathai Conservation Park | |
| State: | sa |
| Iucn Category: | III |
| Iucn Ref: | [1] |
| Coordinates: | -34.754°N 135.83°W |
| Relief: | yes |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Nearest Town Or City: | Port Lincoln.[2] |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
Kathai Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Duck Ponds about 5km (03miles) south-west of Port Lincoln.[2]
The conservation park is located on crown land in section 328 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Lincoln and which includes “a large hill” of a height of 145m (476feet) above sea level called “Northside Hill.”[2] It was constituted under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 on 7 November 1985 to “protect and conserve habitat and wildlife within the Uley catchment basin.” [2] [4] It was proposed to be named as the Northside Hill Conservation Park but ‘Kathai’, the aboriginal name for the hill, was approved by the Geographic Names Board.[5] As of July 2016, the conservation park covered an area of .[3]
The conservation park is dominated by an “open mallee forest” of coastal white mallee over an understorey consisting of tall shrubs of dryland tea-tree. The purple-flowered mallee which is considered to be “regionally rare“ is found within its boundaries.[2]
The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.[1]