03 June 2023

🌱🌳 FUTURE FOREST, holding the promise of a thriving habitat. From these humble beginnings, a tapestry of life will unfold, housing countless birds, mammals, reptiles and more. Here on Nardoo Hills Reserve, Dja Dja Wurrung Country, central Victoria, an incredible revegetation project is underway to inject resilience into the landscape. In the second image, see if you can spot those little dots in the distance, each representing a juvenile eucalypt seedling. Read about the Climate Ready Revegetation Project here: https://www.bushheritage.org.au/news/media-centre/nardoo-climate-ready-revegetation 📸Annette Ruzicka

02 June 2023

This year's National Reconciliation Week calls on all Australians to 'Be the Voice for Generations' 🖤💛❤️ For Vikki Parsley, Bush Heritage's Aboriginal Partnerships Officer, it is the young people who will carry on the important work of caring for country. Vikki has been a instrumental in re-establishing cultural burns in New South Wales. She speaks about this experience in 'The return of the right-way burn' episode of our podcast, Big Sky Country 👉 https://www.bushheritage.org.au/news/audio/big-sky-country How will you be the voice for generations? #NRW2023

01 June 2023

“Just as much as we have to take knowledge from non-Indigenous people, there has to be acceptance and recognition of the knowledge that we hold as Indigenous people across Australia ... It’s about all of us walking together and looking toward the future in conservation.” – Stephina Salee, Aboriginal Cultural Coordinator for Bush Heritage #NRW2023

31 May 2023

“I can envisage the great Gambusia wall,” says Bush Heritage ecologist Dean Gilligan. “It might take a decade, two decades or even fifty years, but if we keep pushing them south, eventually we’ll have none left on the reserve.” Dean is referring to the work happening at Edgbaston Reserve, Bidjara Country, Queensland, where the team have been moving downstream fencing and excluding aggressive Gambusia from precious, bubbling springs. This work will allow life to flourish for endemic and native species who call the shallow pools home including. Learn more about the strategic efforts being employed to protect the springs and the native species within them in the Bushtracks article ‘Where the fish flow’ 👉 https://www.bushheritage.org.au/newsletters/2023/autumn/where-the-fish-flow 📸 Renee Rosinni, the shade cloth fencing being rolled out at Edgbaston 📍 Edgbaston Reserve, Bidjara Country, QLD Bush Heritage gratefully acknowledges funding from @WIRES.wildlife.rescue National Grants Program which has made LiDAR mapping at Edgbaston Reserve possible. #WIRESNGP #WIRESWildlifeRescue

31 May 2023

What does reconciliation look like? Our Aboriginal Partnerships Team, and the wider Bush Heritage team, work hand in hand with Traditional Owners to ensure their aspirations, values and cultural complexities are not only heard and understood, but also embedded into our conservation management practices. To achieve this, we carry out cultural heritage surveys. Learn more 👉https://www.bushheritage.org.au/news/webinars/valuing-culture #NRW2023

30 May 2023

Calling all Melbourne friends! 📣 Join us at the movies to watch the incredible biopic of environmentalist and Bush Heritage founder Bob Brown – The Giants. The screening will be followed by a Q&A panel with special guests who have worked alongside Bob over the years. Grab your tickets now 👉 https://events.humanitix.com/giants-film-screening-melbourne

30 May 2023

This #TrackTuesdays we take you to Pullen Pullen, Maiawali Country, in western Queensland 👣 Pullen Pullen recently played host to 5 Indigenous ranger groups who came together to learn about the elusive Night Parrot. While searching for Night Parrot tracks, Madeleine Dixon from the Warlpiri Rangers spotted these tracks. Any ideas what they are? 📸 Lachlan Gardiner

29 May 2023

'Be the Voice for Generations' 🖤💛❤️ This is the message for this year's National Reconciliation Week. It is a call to all Australians to practice reconciliation in tangible ways in our everyday lives – for it is through reconciliation that we can ensure a more just, equitable and reconciled country for all. Bush Heritage acknowledges and celebrates the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders play in protecting Country. Through right-way science, our approach to conservation is guided by their knowledge of Country, and in everything we do we seek to listen and learn from them. This week we will be sharing the messages of First Nations Bush Heritage staff on what being the voice for generation means to them. First up, Jo Griffin who is the Project Manager Traditional Knowledge for the Science and Conservation team. #NRW2023

29 May 2023

"Psst. I have a secret for you. It's caption comp time!" 😮 Another secret is that it's not really a competition because there are no prizes BUT you're all winners in our eyes 🙌 Tell us what you'd caption this pic of these two Yellow-footed Rock Wallabies from Boolcoomatta Reserve, Adnyamathanha & Wilyakali Country, SA last year.