Gluepot Reserve is a 540 square kilometres (210 sq mi) nature reserve established by Birds Australia in 1997 by the purchase, through a public appeal, of Gluepot Station, a pastoral lease in the semi-arid mallee region of South Australia. The decision to purchase Gluepot Station, Birds Australia's first reserve, was taken in order to protect its outstanding floral and faunal values, under threat because of an application by the lessee to burn the property to provide grazing for sheep. Nearly 200 species of birds have been recorded at Gluepot Reserve. These include the nationally threatened malleefowl, regent parrot, red-lored whistler and black-eared miner. A further 33 species are considered to be regionally threatened. Scarlet-chested parrots are known to have bred on Gluepot Reserve in the past, and still visit the reserve. Gluepot Reserve is within the extent of both the Riverland Biosphere Reserve and the Riverland Mallee Important Bird Area which is identified as such by BirdLife International for its importance in the conservation of mallee birds and their habitats.