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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]
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. The safari park houses over 500 animals representing more then 50 different species. It is home to a large selection of exotic and native animals, particularly focusing on native African species ...
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]
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]
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 of Monarto; Hundred of Monarto, a cadastral unit
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The project of Monarto was ambitious, but the shortfall in urban planning and the different obstacles meant it remained an unrealised proposal and the plan never came to fruition. A large portion of the land targeted by the project has now been taken up by the Monarto Safari Park, established in 1983 as Monarto Zoo.
In October 2007 it was reported that the black-flanked rock wallaby, known as warru to the local population, faced extinction, and that 15 of the wallabies had been transferred from an undisclosed location on the APY Lands and also from Pukatja, to Monarto Zoo (now Monarto Safari Park). It had been estimated that there were only about 50 of the ...