Bushie blog

Someone surrendered a Thorny Devil 10 days ago to Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service office in Mackay. They contacted us here at Ethabuka Reserve to see if we could release it. After some...

The 2021/22 La Nina has brought significant rainfall to the eastern seaboard of Australia, while the west has seen below average conditions. Here are some weather highlights from the first few months.

An ecologist’s ode to our native rodents. We recently encountered a rat plague of native Long-haired Rats (Rattus villosissimus) at Ethabuka Reserve, Wangkamadla country during our annual fauna...

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...

A new report published last week highlights 19 ecosystems on land and sea country that are unravelling due to pressures from climate change and human impacts. The Georgina Gidgee woodlands of...

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

Early summer months (December-January) bring back the unrelentless dry heat to Bush Heritage’s Ethabuka Reserve in far western Queensland. Temperatures soar over the mid-40s and rolling dust storms...

University of Sydney PhD student Emma Spencer is monitoring life and death out in far western Queensland.

Already 7 months have passed since we arrived at Ethabuka, and one thing that has amazed us is the weather. Arid areas certainly are lands of the extreme! Cold, hot, windy, dusty...

We've been testing the use of burn lines as a way to draw cats towards our new Felixer cat traps at Ethabuka Reserve. The results so far are super encouraging.

Have you ever stopped to think, how does the provision of resources in the landscape affect wildlife patterns in general? If you add a heap of additional unexpected food resources, what then...

It's well known that cats have a huge and often catastrophic impact on native species and are notoriously difficult to control. The Felixer cat trap might be the solution.