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Monarto Safari Park, formerly known as Monarto Zoological Park and Monarto Zoo, is a 1,500-hectare (3,700-acre) open-range zoo near Murray Bridge in South Australia. By area, Monarto Safari Park is the largest zoo in Australia. [2] It is located at Monarto, approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) from Adelaide's centre.
In 1983, the society opened Monarto Zoo (now called Monarto Safari Park), located approximately 70 kilometers east of Adelaide. Monarto Zoo covers an area of over 1,500 hectares and is home to over 500 animals from more than 50 species. The zoo is operated by the RZSSA and is dedicated to the conservation of Australian and exotic wildlife. [1]
It is administered by the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia Incorporated (trading as Zoos South Australia or Zoos SA), which is a full institutional member of the Zoo and Aquarium Association and the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and which also administers the Monarto Safari Park near Murray Bridge. [4]
The 1,500-hectare (3,700-acre) Monarto Safari Park, the world's largest open range zoo. [31] Monarto Shooting Club; Murray Bridge Motocross Club, with a track that permits both two-wheel motorcycles and quad bikes. [citation needed]
Monarto Safari Park, a large open-range zoo in South Australia; Monarto Conservation Park, a protected area in South Australia; City of Monarto, a proposed city in South Australia in the 1970s - see Monarto, South Australia#Proposed city of Monarto; District Council of Monarto, a former local government area that occupied the extent of Hundred ...
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The Monarto Woodlands Conservation Park extends about 15 kilometres along the South Eastern Freeway from the edge of Murray Bridge west to near Callington, and provides important habitat for more than 60 bird species, five of which are of State conservation significance. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category VI protected area. [1]
The conservation park consists of land in sections 495 and 496 in the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Monarto. It was proclaimed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 on 15 September 1983. [3] As of 2016, it covered an area of 2.4 square kilometres (0.93 sq mi). [4]