Healthy Country. Protected Forever.

A Traditional Custodian once told me that ‘if you put your ear to a River Red Gum trunk, you can hear it drinking’.” This sparked our curiosity, so we tried and sure enough, we heard water being siphoned up. To sum up the value of trees in a few words is not easy, so we’ve dedicated this entire edition of Bushtracks to them.

There are characters in Bush Heritage’s story like the gibber pebbles that dot the landscape at Evelyn Downs Reserve – they go a long way back. Dr Alexander Gosling is one of those characters.

We’re building a secure digital place for biocultural knowledge to be stored and used.

A volunteer-led and long-term monitoring project will help protect York Gum woodlands against a warmer future.

Cultural burning in south-west Western Australia reconnects people to Noongar Country – and to each other.

Before it’s too late, we’re giving two of Tasmania’s lesser-known species the opportunity to thrive -  the Tasmanian Bertya (Bertya tasmanica subsp. tasmanica) and the South Esk Pine (Callitris oblonga subsp. oblonga)

Live from Eurardy Reserve, mid-west WA. Join our Reserve Manager, Sam Fischer, and Restoration Ecologist, Fiamma Riviera, who chat with host Matthew Taylor and our audience about the ongoing restoration efforts taking place on the reserve.

Brush-tailed Phascogales are nocturnal and rarely seen. However, numbers are declining and threats such as habitat loss, fragmentation and feral predators, are putting it at risk.

Bush Heritage has secured a highly competitive $1.6 million Game Changer Federal Government grant to work with eVorta and Timberscope to develop innovative methods for controlling feral cat populations across Australia.

Join host Matthew Taylor and intern Ella Raymond, to hear about her research project focussed on using remote sensing technology to map buffel grass at our Ethabuka and Pilungah reserves in South West Queensland.

We gratefully acknowledge Djaara (the Dja Dja Wurrung people), the Traditional Custodians of Djandak (Dja Dja Wurrung Country) in central Victoria, for over 14 years of partnership.

When Bruce Hammond first laid eyes on the Breakaways at Evelyn Downs, he saw an opportunity to support the protection of one of the most significant parcels of Country for Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people. 

This year, at Eurardy Reserve on Nanda Country in mid-north Western Australia, we led an innovative project to restore the iconic understorey of annual wildflowers.

Conservation Futures is a collaboration across sectors and organisations towards the concept of an ‘Integrated Knowledge System’, where knowledge of Country and landscapes can be securely stored.

Since the advent of Chat GPT 4, the culture has been obsessing over Artificial Intelligence. What might change? How could AI help us? Could AI turn against us?