Brookfield Conservation Park South Australia
IUCN category III (natural monument or feature)
Brookfield Conservation Park
Nearest town or city	Blanchetown
Coordinates	34°21′22″S 139°29′24″E / 34.35611°S 139.49°E / -34.35611; 139.49
Established	6 July 1978 (1978-07-06)
Managing authorities	Department for Environment and Water
See also	Protected areas of South Australia

Brookfield Conservation Park is a conservation park located in South Australia, about 130 km northeast of Adelaide.

The area that became Brookfield Conservation Park was first settled in 1836 as a pastoral lease.^[1] Pioneer farming families kept sheep, which were confined in brush yards overnight and protected by shepherds living in simple slab huts.^[1] The area was later named Glen Leslie Station; during this period, the station grazed up to 2000 sheep and eucalyptus mallees on the land were razed for wood and charcoal.^[1] In 1971, using a $55,000 donation from the Forest Park Foundation of Peoria, the Chicago Zoological Society purchased the land as a conservation reserve for the southern-hairy nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons).^[1][2] The station was renamed Brookfield Zoo Wombat Reserve, after Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, Illinois.^[1][2][3] Six years later, the land was gifted to the Government of South Australia.^[1][2] Brookfield Conservation Park was formally proclaimed on 6 July 1978, under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972.^[1][3] Beginning in 2008, the park is now managed in partnership with Conservation Volunteers Australia.^[3]

Brookfield Conservation Park comprises three main habitat types: open mallee Eucalyptus; arid woodland including sugarwood (Myoporum platycarpum) and dryland tea-tree (Melaleuca lanceolata); and arid shrubland including bluebush (Maireana spp).^[3] The park is home to an important population of the endangered southern hairy-nosed wombats.^[3] Other mammal species include fat-tailed dunnarts, common dunnarts, short-beaked echidnas, red kangaroos, and western grey kangaroos.^[3] The park's birdlife includes two species of fairywren, the splendid fairywren and purple-backed fairywren.^[4] Other notable birds include emus, ground cuckoo-shrikes, Australian owlet-nightjars, malleefowl, galah, Australian ringneck, crested bellbird, mulga parrot, black-eared cuckoo, Gilbert's whistler, elegant parrot, and red-backed kingfisher. Reptiles species that live in the park include the sand goanna and the eastern brown snake.^[3]

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  Dirt road running through the park.
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  Accommodation for researchers.
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  Derelict charcoal pit along the Charcoal Pits Walk.
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  A southern hairy-nosed wombat.
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  Two galahs.

• Brookfield Conservation Park: National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia