Volunteering

Bush Heritage runs a volunteer program to involve volunteers in our activities across Australia. We attract many volunteers with diverse skills and knowledge. All our volunteers demonstrate a strong commitment to protecting Australia's unique landscapes, plants and wildlife.

Volunteers enrich our workplace culture and support Bush Heritage by giving their skills, energy and time to achieve great conservation results. Volunteers complete a range of land management and office tasks. On reserves, volunteers help to maintain, repair and build infrastructure, control processes of land degradation, and undertake ecological surveys. At the Conservation Support Centre (Level 5, 395 Collins St, Melbourne), volunteers regularly assist with administrative tasks.

Volunteering opportunities

When we identify vacancies on our volunteer team, we advertise these as volunteering opportunities on the Working Bees, Volunteer Rangers, and Conservation Support Volunteers (formerly Office Volunteers) pages. If you find a suitable opportunity on the pages mentioned, please contact us to apply. We welcome all eligible interest. 

As opportunities are limited, selection is sometimes competitive and it is important to note that volunteering places cannot be guaranteed.

Volunteering news

Bush Heritage is happy to offer V-News, a newsletter covering the experiences and achievements of our volunteers. The newsletter is produced twice each year in electronic form and is available to download from our website. Printed copies can be posted on request by calling 1300 NATURE (1300 628 873).

We also have a subscription based email group for people eager to be kept in touch with volunteering news. The release of each V-News is announced to subscribers by email. And while our website is updated regularly to reflect available volunteering opportunities, we may contact our email subscribers in regard to volunteering opportunities that arise at short-notice or that are yet to be filled. If you would like to join the email group, please return a completed Volunteer News Subscription.

The current and previous issues of V-News can be downloaded here.

Thank you to all our volunteers and to all other people who support their involvement!