Volunteering

Volunteers are vital to Bush Heritage

Volunteers help on reserves and in the office. Volunteers provide skills and energy to ensure that the multitude of land management and office tasks get done.

In the 2006-07 financial year 339 volunteers contributed their time to the value of over $680 000! Some volunteers helped on reserves at Working Bees and as Volunteer Rangers; other volunteers assisted at the Conservation Support Centre in Melbourne.

Reserve Volunteers assist with maintaining, repairing and building reserve infrastructure, controlling weeds and erosion, undertaking surveys of plants and animals. Volunteers with specialist skills in trades and ecology are especially sought after.

Office Volunteers assist with information technology, clerical tasks, image management and many other jobs that are part of the 'business' of conservation.

Volunteer newsletter

The Bush Heritage volunteer newsletter is named V-News. V-News is a bi-annual newsletter sent to volunteers to keep them informed about volunteer experiences, achievements and opportunities. The latest edition, published in March 2008, launches our new volunteering process. It includes a list of volunteering opportunities available at reserves and in our office up until August 2008.

Our fourth edition of V-News, published March 2008, is now online .

A huge thank you to all our volunteers!