Bushie blog

I was hesitant about going out to the desert to volunteer for Bush Heritage in January this year. It’s such a long way and it’s dusty and hot. But a trip to Craven’s Peak was available and I...

Hear from two of our WA volunteers about their recent caretaking experience on our Hamelin Station Reserve.

The new arid zone conservation base blends and conspicuously conforms with its surroundings, taking advantage of the natural aspect and using nature's energy to silently come to life. Graciously...

Being presented with a wire winder wouldn’t excite everyone but knowing that we were in for a week or two of fence removal at Naree Reserve, we thought it was pretty good!

Did you know that there can be more organisms in one teaspoon of soil than there are people on the planet? The microscopic communities that live in the soil beneath our feet are critical to the...

With its Grassy White Box Woodlands, Tarcutta Hills is perfect habitat for Squirrel Gliders, but we haven’t officially recorded them on the reserve before.

Our Bon Bon and Boolcoomatta Reserves are seen through fresh eyes as two overseas supporters return after more than a decade. We can sometimes trace the events that shaped the land through careful...

It’s not how some people would spend their holidays; early mornings and late nights, grappling reptiles, camping in wet muddy conditions… Nevertheless, myself and four other volunteers took time...

Conservationists around the world today celebrate the first annual World Rewilding Day to raise awareness of rewilding, one of the most powerful and widely available methods for stabilising the...

For the past 10 months I've been leading a project to install a suite of nest boxes at Scottsdale Reserve on Ngunnawal country in southern NSW as part of our ongoing efforts to restore the reserve...

An article in WA Today: "One of the nation’s biggest conservation groups has started working with the West Australian government’s fox baiting program in the south and levelled it up to target cats...

With words and brush, volunteer caretaker, Angela Woltmann paints a glorious picture of Christmas spent on Ethabuka Reserve with her husband Shane.