As of 2006, reptiles were represented by bull skink and marbled gecko. As of 2012, the island has no official name and is identified in two sources by the cadastral description, "Section 181, Hundred Wrenfordsley, County of Robinson." One of the above-mentioned sources used the name "Baird Bay Island" in order to distinguish it from other unnamed islands discussed within its content. It is one of the islands off the west coast of Eyre Peninsula where native vegetation was cleared for "grazing by early pastoralists". Contemporary use of the island as of 1996 was reported as follows - "a small stone hut has been built into a section of coastal cliff and was possibly built and used by fishermen, and a limestone chimney is all that." The island first received protected area status along with Jones Island as a fauna conservation reserve declared under the "Crown Lands Act 1929-1966" on 16 March 1967 . Since 1972, it has been part of the Baird Bay Islands Conservation Park. Since 2012, the waters adjoining its shoreline are in a habitat protection zone within the West Coast Bays Marine Park. The island is also located within an area in Baird Bay which has been listed since at least 1996 as a "wetland of national importance" in the Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia.