Bushie blog

Bush Heritage staff express their gratitude to the dedicated volunteers who support our work in the office, from home and on our reserves around the country.

National Volunteer Week is the annual celebration that acknowledges the generous contribution of our nation’s volunteers.

This year the Wet season has been late to arrive but it's making up for lost time in northern Queensland. With daily rainfall totals exceeding 10 inches for four days straight, the creeks...

The wet season in far north Queensland is the perfect time to go searching for fungi and the Hales kids from Yourka Reserve are keen to share their latest, exciting find.

Tassie-based volunteer, Kim Eastman certainly has a beautiful way with words. Last year her blog post about Grandparenting at Goonderoo garnered comments and compliments from so many supporters and...

Back in September, Victorian-based volunteer Nathan Manders answered the call for reserve support to one of our most remote properties – Cravens Peak on the edge of the Simpson Desert. Here...

After a successful field trip back in September, three environmental science students from James Cook Uni returned to help with Spring fauna trapping at Yourka Reserve. The students helped set and...

Volunteers play an important role in weed control projects across the country. On Goonderoo Reserve in Central Qld, the target species is Sword Cactus (Acanthocereus pentagonus) a tall, columnar...

Do you know what you’re looking at here? It’s the splatter-bomb poo of a Southern Cassowary and it’s everywhere on the forest floor at Fan Palm Reserve in the Daintree area...

Last week a group of 16 James Cook University students visited Yourka Reserve as part of their studies in Terrestrial Resource Management. They spent a couple of days looking at all aspects of...

Our volunteer caretakers at Goonderoo play an important role in the recovery of Bridled Nailtail Wallabies (Flashjacks) at neighbouring Avocet Nature Refuge in Central Qld. As part of their weekly...

Thursday 17th August was a monumental day for Yourka Reserve. It was the day that the much anticipated staff housing arrived. Three trucks, a crane and a house (in two pieces) arrived. Watching the...