Bushie blog

One thing I can say about volunteering with Bush Heritage Australia is that it’s never boring. And I’ve just had the most action-packed week that I’ve had for a long time, ...

Boots? Check. Gloves? Check. Sunglasses? Check. Wide-brimmed hat? Check. Shin and ankle gaiters? Check. Thorn-proof, long-sleeved shirt and trousers? Hmm... is there any such thing? As it...

There were certainly a lot of highlights at this year’s Blues for the Bush music festival at Charles Darwin Reserve, but for me, and many other festival-goers, easily one of the stand-out...

Move over Hollywood! ‘Cos while Tinseltown may be famous for having the Blues Brothers, here at Charles Darwin Reserve, we’ve got something bigger and better: an entire Blues Family.

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...