Working together: Bush Heritage’s partnerships

Bush Heritage and its many partners are working together to save Australia’s threatened plants and animals. Please help us to help them.

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Although our partners range from research groups and conservation organisations to Indigenous landowners and corporate partners, they all have one thing in common. We all work together towards conserving Australia’s biodiversity.

Like much of our work, the future of these partnerships is reliant on securing funding. Achieving conservation outcomes takes time, and resources are needed over a long period to protect threatened species and ecosystems.

Your donation could make such a difference to achieving our goal:

• $30 could contribute towards the cost of traditional knowledge recording for training local field guides.
• $50 could help pay for work on Bush Heritage reserves to survey and monitor native species such as hopping mice.
• $200 could pay for conservation management planning activities with Wunambal Gaambera, including flora and fauna surveying and training local people in sea country monitoring techniques.
• $500 could purchase 500 tube stocks of mixed riparian plant species for revegetation along river banks.

Two of our partnerships are outlined here.

Wunambal Gaambera, north-west Kimberley, WA. 

In the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia, Bush Heritage is working closely with the Wunambal Gaambera people on their traditional land.This breathtaking region has extraordinary biological diversity and many endemic species.

Wunambal Gaambera country is recognised as a national biodiversity hotspot, and known internationally as a significant landscape for conservation. However, this country’s extraordinary conservation values are currently poorly protected.

The Wunambal Gaambera people are working towards having an Indigenous protected area declared over their land. Bush Heritage is working with them to develop a long-term conservation management plan.

Key conservation outcomes include the protection of threatened plants, animals and ecosystems, including dugongs, northern quolls, and the largest combined area of rainforest in WA.

Further reading:  Wunambal-Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation management plan document.

Kosciuszko to Coast, south-eastern Australia

In south-eastern Australia, a partnership project called Kosciuszko to Coast (K2C) is working to restore fragmented landscapes across a large section of country. This partnership between conservation organisations, community groups, government agencies and local landowners includes Bush Heritage’s Scottsdale Reserve, near Canberra.

The project aims to reconnect isolated patches of woodlands and grasslands, creating a series of ‘biodiversity stepping stones’ on land of high conservation value.

A network of over 40 properties are contributing to the K2C conservation objectives. Here, Bush Heritage and partners are truly working on a regional scale, which is beneficial when controlling invasive weeds and feral animals.

Through this collaboration, we are more easily able to achieve our goal of a landscape that is recovering its key conservation values.

Your donation could make such a difference to achieving our goal:

• $30 could contribute towards the cost of traditional knowledge recording for training local field guides.
• $50 could help pay for work on Bush Heritage reserves to survey and monitor native species such as hopping mice.
• $200 could pay for conservation management planning activities with Wunambal Gaambera, including flora and fauna surveying and training local people in sea country monitoring techniques.
• $500 could purchase 500 tube stocks of mixed riparian plant species for revegetation along river banks.

Please donate Whatever you are able to give today will make a direct and tangible contribution to the long-term survival of dozens of our country’s unique and vulnerable species and their habitats.   You can become a Friend of the Bush from only $15.00 per month and you will help us with long term planning and the ongoing management of Bush Heritage’s unique reserves. Your ongoing regular contribution can help us to manage and protect ecologically critical land and waterways across all our reserves.  All donations of $2 or more are tax deductible.