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Alex Hams
Alison Wilson
Alistair Dermer
Allana Brown
Amelia Caddy
Angela Sanders
Angus Retallack
Annette Dean
Antia Brademann
Avelina Tarrago
Ben Parkhurst
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New South Wales
---- Brogo Reserve
---- Burrin Burrin Reserve
---- Naree Station
---- Scottsdale Reserve
---- Sydney
---- Tarcutta Hills Reserve
---- Yantabulla partnership property
Northern Territory
---- Arafura Partnership
---- Warddeken Partnership
Queensland
---- Carnarvon Reserve
---- Currumbin Valley Reserve
---- Edgbaston Reserve
---- Ethabuka Reserve
---- Fan Palm Reserve
---- Goonderoo Reserve
---- Olkola Partnership
---- Pilungah Reserve
---- Pullen Pullen Reserve
---- Reedy Creek Reserve
---- Yourka Reserve
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---- Bon Bon Station Reserve
---- Boolcoomatta Reserve
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---- Friendly Beaches
---- Liffey Valley
-------- Liffey River
-------- Oura Oura
---- South Esk Pine
---- Tasmanian Midlands
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---- John Colahan Griffin Nature Reserve
---- Melbourne
---- Nardoo Hills Reserves
---- Ngulambarra
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---- Birriliburu partnership
---- Bunuba Partnership
---- Charles Darwin Reserve
---- Eurardy Reserve
---- Gondwana Link
-------- Beringa Reserve
-------- Chereninup Reserve
-------- Monjebup Reserves
---- Hamelin Station Reserve
---- Kojonup Reserve
---- Perth
---- Wunambal Gaambera Partnership
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The circle of spring
by
Will Sacre
on
18 November 2021
Bush Heritage have been busy over the past few months helping build our inventory of what we protect on our reserves.
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New daisy species for the Fitz-Stirling
by
Angela Sanders (Ecologist)
on
08 September 2021
This large daisy went unnoticed on our Beringa and Chereninup Reserves until botanist Libby Sandiford visited with her eagle eye looking for something different. Only a few plants were found and...
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The secret life of soil
by
Shawn Peddle (PhD candidate with Flinders University, South Australia)
on
04 May 2021
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...
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Great Southern cat cull
by
Emma Young, reporter at WA Today
on
18 February 2021
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...
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Red-tailed Phascogale found at Chereninup
by
Angela Sanders (Ecologist)
on
05 November 2020
We put out seven cameras on our Chereninup Reserve in the Fitz-Stirling region of south-west Western Australia in the hope of catching a Tammar Wallaby or two. Instead we found a Red-Tailed...
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Revegetation monitoring
by
Jo and Paul Flint, Queensland Volunteers
on
09 April 2020
It had been 16 years since our last visit to Chereninup Creek Reserve, for a National Tree Day planting. That cold and blustery day was the start of a revegetation program in the mega-diverse...
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In Memory of Margaret Anne Wilson
by
Alannah Dixon
on
29 August 2019
Bob and Margie Wilson spent a brief period in the early days of their life together enjoying the stunning landscapes of the Stirling Ranges in the Fitz-Stirling region of Western Australia...
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Chereninup Creek reveals its secrets
by
Angela Sanders (Ecologist)
on
18 December 2017
Chereninup Creek has revealed some of its secrets to Botanist Libby Sandiford and Ecologist Angela Sanders. This is the 4th Bush Heritage property to be surveyed this year in the biodiversity...
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Fitz-Stirling fauna
by
Angela Sanders (Ecologist)
on
26 November 2015
Our recent fauna survey kept us busy on the Gondwana Link Fitz-Stirling properties, with 260 pitfall traps working on 5 properties over 15 days. Our volunteers were thrilled to see honey possums...
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