Editing Witjira National Park (section)

==History==
The [[national park]] was proclaimed on 21 November 1985 to "protect Australia’s largest array of [[artesian springs]]: the nationally significant [[Dalhousie Springs|Dalhousie Mound Springs complex]]".<ref name="SAGG-1985"/><ref name=MP/>  In 2007, it became the first protected area in South Australia to have formal joint management arrangements between its [[traditional owners]] and the [[Government of South Australia]].<ref name=MP/>

The extent of land occupied by the national park was gazetted as a locality in April 2013 under the name "Witjira".<ref name=PLB>{{cite web|title=Search result for "Witjira (LOCB)" (Record no SA0067224) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)" |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |work=Property Location Browser|publisher=Government of South Australia |access-date=27 May 2016}}</ref>

On 26 November 2021, the government changed the conditions of the park, to forever exclude mining in the Dalhousie Springs National Heritage Area.<ref name=cpc>{{cite web | title=SA now home to Australia's biggest national park | website=Premier of South Australia |first=David| last=Speirs| author-link=David Speirs| date=26 November 2021 | url=https://www.premier.sa.gov.au/news/media-releases/news/south-australia-now-home-to-australias-biggest-national-park | access-date=22 December 2021}} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU)] licence.</ref>