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---- Brogo Reserve
---- Burrin Burrin Reserve
---- Naree Station
---- Scottsdale Reserve
---- Sydney
---- Tarcutta Hills Reserve
---- Yantabulla partnership property
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---- Arafura Partnership
---- Warddeken Partnership
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---- Cravens Peak Reserve
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---- Edgbaston Reserve
---- Ethabuka Reserve
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---- Goonderoo Reserve
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---- Reedy Creek Reserve
---- Yourka Reserve
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---- Nardoo Hills Reserves
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---- Bunuba Partnership
---- Charles Darwin Reserve
---- Eurardy Reserve
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Fire fighting green team
by
Steve Heggie (Healthy Landscape Manager)
on
27 October 2016
Bunuba Rangers attended the recent Kimberley mega wildfire, which has burnt over 1.5 million ha of remote county across the indigenous protected areas (IPAs) and pastoral properties in the western...
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Bunuba rock art maintenance
by
Steve Heggie (Healthy Landscape Manager)
on
20 July 2016
The Kimberly is well known for its Aboriginal rock art, particularly the celebrated Wanjina paintings of the coastal areas such as found within the Bush Heritage - Wunambal Gaambera indigenous...
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Stone axe oldest in the world
by
Steve Heggie (Healthy Landscape Manager)
on
20 June 2016
Forty nine thousand years is old by anyone's measure. The Bunuba people were proudly in the national spotlight recently when the Australian National University published its carbon dating of a...
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Sticky notes & slow cooked beef
by
Steve Heggie (Healthy Landscape Manager)
on
04 April 2016
An update from Bush Heritage's conservation partnership with the Bunuba people of the southern Kimberly, Western Australia. Colourful sticky notes and slow cooked killer (wild cow) can mean only...
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Croc wrangling for a healthy country
by
Steve Heggie (Healthy Landscape Manager)
on
14 October 2015
The Bunuba Rangers have just finished participating in the annual freshwater crocodile survey of Windjanna Gorge. Led by WA Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) ecologists, a spotlight survey...
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Artesian spring doppelganger
by
Steve Heggie (Healthy Landscape Manager)
on
06 July 2015
'Bubbles' is an artificial spring that has recently been constructed on Edgbaston Reserve as part of the Red-fin Blue-eye recovery program. Using artesian water from the homestead bore, we've...
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Water works on Edgbaston
by
Steve Heggie (Healthy Landscape Manager)
on
22 April 2015
We're fortunate to have recently had Dr Ken Tinley volunteer his time on Edgbaston to give advice on measures to repair and restore problematic aspects of the catchment's run off that were causing...
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