Charles Darwin Reserve Community History

The Charles Darwin Reserve Community History website is now online.

In 2003, Bush Heritage Australia (then known as Australian Bush Heritage Fund) purchased Whitewells Station in Western Australia to protect its outstanding remnant woodlands and the native animals and plants that depend on them.

The property was renamed Charles Darwin Reserve and is now managed to protect its biodiversity for the long term.

The website was mostly written and compiled by Charlie Nicholson with contributions from many other people, traces the human history of the area of this reserve. This is a work in progress and will continue to expand as more information and personal stories emerge.

Special thanks to Sue Graham-Taylor and the Social and Cultural History Department of the Western Australian Museum for their support.

Our sincere thanks to all those who assisted by providing their personal stories and recollections, and the photographs and documents reproduced here.

Warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people that this website contains images of deceased persons.

Lotterywest has generously funded the production of this community history.

Please enjoy the following information and images of the Charles Darwin Reserve. They illustrate the changing attitudes and perceptions of this country.

Click here to visit the Charles Darwin Reserve Community History website http://www.bushheritage.org.au/cdr_history/index.html