Mornington Sanctuary

It contains the Mornington Wilderness Camp and is owned and managed by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC).

Vegetation is predominantly various forms of tropical savanna woodland and grassland regulated by frequent wildfires.

Fragments of rainforest communities such as Livistona palm forests may be found in gullies and other areas protected from fires.

[5] The reserve has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports significant populations of threatened red goshawks and Gouldian finches, as well as globally important populations of grey falcons, Australian bustards, chestnut-backed buttonquails, bush stone-curlews, white-quilled rock-pigeons, varied lorikeets, northern rosellas, purple-crowned fairywrens, silver-crowned friarbirds, white-gaped, yellow-tinted, bar-breasted and banded honeyeaters, sandstone shrike-thrushes, white-browed robins, spinifexbirds, painted firetails, masked and long-tailed finches.

Driving distances and estimated times are: The Wilderness Camp has a 1,000 m (3,300 ft) airstrip; charter flights can be arranged.