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New South Wales
---- Brogo Reserve
---- Burrin Burrin Reserve
---- Naree Station
---- Scottsdale Reserve
---- Tarcutta Hills Reserve
---- Yantabulla partnership property
Northern Territory
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---- Charles Darwin Reserve
---- Eurardy Reserve
---- Gondwana Link
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A summer fire near Naree
by
Greg Carroll (Reserve Manager)
on
07 January 2021
On Monday 28 December a fire, caused by a lightning strike from a recent thunderstorm, started on a neighbouring property to the west of Naree Station Reserve on Budjiti country in north western...
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A Boolcoomatta bush Christmas
by
Meredith Geyer (volunteer caretaker)
on
07 January 2021
After settling in for a three week stay as caretakers, we couldn’t wait to get out in the field at Boolcoomatta Reserve to see what had changed since the welcome spring rains had arrived.
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Birds boom at Boolcoomatta!
by
Sam Fischer – Bon Bon Field Officer
on
18 December 2020
Earlier this month, Boolcoomatta Reserve staff had the pleasure of hosting five members of Birds South Australia to undertake bird surveys across the reserve. The dedicated volunteers came from all...
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A busy field season for the Birriliburu Rangers!
by
Stella Shipway (Healthy Country Manager)
on
17 December 2020
Fire is a big part of the desert landscape and has been used as a tool for tens of thousands of years. In July and August rangers visited two areas of the Birriliburu Indigenous Protected Area (IPA...
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$1.2 million grant to combat extinction
by
Kate Thorburn
on
17 December 2020
The University of Melbourne and Bush Heritage Australia have been awarded a significant grant of $1.2 million by The Ian Potter Foundation to build an open-source Conservation Knowledge System...
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The impact of kangaroos on termites
by
Baptiste Wijas (PhD candidate)
on
17 December 2020
I am a PhD student at the University of New South Wales investigating the indirect top-down effects of the absence of dingoes on ecosystems. One of my study sites includes Boolcoomatta Reserve west...
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Volunteer 2020 wrap Up
by
Joanne Flint and Jessie Moyses, members of the Volunteer Advisory Committee
on
09 December 2020
When the Volunteer Advisory Committee met in February to plan the year ahead, we never envisaged the opportunities 2020 would create for connecting the volunteer community. This year volunteers...
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Malleefowl – these birds like it hot, hot, hot!
by
Jessica Stingemore (Reserve Manager)
on
09 December 2020
Before I started as Reserve Manager at Charles Darwin Reserve, I was an avid volunteer for Bush Heritage – and have been monitoring the Malleefowl mounds here on Badimia Country for the past five...
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Wildflowers galore in south west WA
by
Angela Sanders (Ecologist)
on
04 December 2020
Botanist extraordinaire Libby Sandiford has spent the past few years striding across our properties in the Fitz-Stirling in south-west Western Australia. She's documented an incredible 934 species...
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Living in the Woomera Prohibited Area
by
Kate Taylor (Field Officer)
on
03 December 2020
In the past four-and-a-half years while we've been living and working on Bon Bon, we've had multiple closures and restrictions and have had to evacuate the homestead for rocket launches, live...
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A new boundary at Hamelin
by
Annie and Ian Mayo
on
01 December 2020
Annie and Ian Mayo have been spending the last couple of months removing fences around reserves in WA. On the weekend they reached a huge milestone by reaching 100km of fenceline removed!
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Helping out the Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo
by
Alex Hams (Healthy Landscape Manager)
on
26 November 2020
Bush Heritage’s efforts to connect remnant patches of bush in the fragmented but ecologically diverse landscape between the Stirling Range and Fitzgerald River national parks have been given a...
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