The following statements from the conservation park's management plan summarises its conservation significance: The park comprises the foredune and associated swale system surrounding a 40 hectares wetland area (including Salt lake and Butchers lake), bisected by the Butcher Gap Drain… The wetland supports an association of dense South Australian swamp paperbark (Melaleuca halmaturorum) over marine meadow, while the remainder of the Park is a coastal scrub association.