Bushie blog

This one was produced by an emu and is full of Sandalwood seeds. The species was harvested extensively but is now regenerating.

Precisely a week after my husband Will, our nine-month-old son Hamish, and I had moved from Sydney to Charles Darwin Reserve in remote Western Australia, I sat crying in our new house.

The beginning of the 2018 summer on Charles Darwin Reserve (CDR) saw an unprecedented increase in snake sightings around the homestead and visitor’s quarters. In total there were six...

This experience made my week! We had rangers Vaughan Lane and Lindsey Callow, both Badimaya men from the Midwest Aboriginal Ranger Program who are working in partnership with the Northern...

Two of our long-serving and much valued volunteers – Charlie Nicholson and Ken Walter – headed to Charles Darwin Reserve in October/November to caretake the property. The reserve is in...

Gunduwa is an innovation leader! And we have living proof of that – in the form of a beautiful trophy and certificate that we were presented with recently when declared the winner of the '...

This spring the Charles Darwin Reserve weeding crew again joined forces to attack emergent weeds at this beautiful reserve in the mid-west of Western Australia. This was the second weeds working...

Bush Heritage volunteers have been running an amazing weed removal effort at Charles Darwin Reserve in Western Australia for around 10 years. The Charles Darwin weeds working bee is run twice...

Unfortunately, my camera trap didn’t record any Malleefowl, but it did capture a murder – which is the term for a group or flock of crows or ravens. At one time there were seven...

William Hansen is the new Charles Darwin Reserve Manager. Here he reflects on his first few months with Bush Heritage and family life on the reserve. "During my time with Bush Heritage the...

Brian Martin and Brian Crute are valued Bush Heritage volunteers who help with the seasonal sand pad monitoring on Charles Darwin Reserve in Western Australia. Here Brian Martin provides an account...

Annie and Ian Mayo have just completed an epic volunteer project for us in the West – a fence-pulling tour of our reserves in the Western Rangelands.