Beeliar Regional Park | |
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Type | Regional park |
Location | CockburnKwinanaMelville |
Coordinates | 32°10′03″S 115°49′57″E / 32.16750°S 115.83250°E |
Area | 3,171 ha (7,840 acres) |
Established | 17 January 1995 |
Administered by | Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions |
Website | parks |
Official name | Beeliar Regional Park |
Type | Interim list (Natural) |
Designated | 24 June 1997 |
Reference no. | 14862 |
Beeliar Regional Park is a conservation park approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) south of the central business district in Perth, Western Australia, located within the Citys of Cockburn, Kwinana and Melville. The regional park is named after the indigenous Beeliar people of the area.
In Western Australia, regional parks consist of areas of land that have been identified as having outstanding conservation, landscape and recreation values. The park contains remnants of the Beeliar Wetlands, part of the once widespread Swan Coastal Plain.
Beeliar is one of eleven regional parks in the Perth region of Western Australia. The purpose of these regional parks is to serve as urban havens to preserve and restore cultural heritage and valuable ecosystems as well as to encourage sustainable nature-based recreation activities.[1]