Bushie blog

The unprecedented rain that fell at Ethabuka Reserve this winter has presented the Sydney University Desert Ecology Research Group with a rare chance to study life in these unusual conditions. They...

Fourteen groups of volunteers kept us busy this year. Reconstructing and strengthening boundary fences was the top priority. In one particularly mammoth undertaking, volunteers managed to pull down...

Arriving home to 65mm in the rain gauge is an amazing thing! Such a beautiful sight to see. All we can think is, how much did we really get? Since we were off reserve for almost four weeks and the...

This April has seen rats descend upon Ethabuka – the self-proclaimed Sydney University 'Ratcatchers' research team that is. It's a rare occurrence to have such a large team of the Sydney Uni...

It rained. The Mulligan River ran over the access road for a week and sometimes reached over 2m deep. These flows found their way down the catchment and helped fill Pulchera waterhole on Ethabuka...