Eyre Yorke Block

Eyre Yorke Block
Eyre and Yorke mallee
Eyre Yorke Block; Eyre and Yorke mallee
	Kangaroos at Innes National Park on the Yorke Peninsula
	Map of the Eyre Yorke Block, a.k.a. Eyre and Yorke mallee
Ecology
Realm	Australasian
Biome	Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
Borders	List Great Victoria desert; Mount Lofty woodlands; Nullarbor Plains xeric shrublands; Tirari-Sturt stony desert; Temperate Grassland of South Australia;
Geography
Area	60,195 km2 (23,241 sq mi)
Country	Australia
States	South Australia
Conservation
Conservation status	Critical/endangered
Protected	8,816 km2 (15%)

The Eyre Yorke Block, also known as the Eyre and Yorke mallee, is an interim Australian (IBRA) bioregion and a World Wildlife Fund ecoregion covering part of the Eyre Peninsula and all of Yorke Peninsula as well as land to its immediate east in South Australia.

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