Bushie blog

The Birriliburu Rangers have completed the first of four trips to Mungarlu in the Little Sandy Desert as part of a federal government grant through the Threatened Species Fund.

A new species of tjanpi (spinifex) has been described and named after Birriliburu country! It's only found in a narrow area of the Little Sandy Desert Bioregion, most often occurring on sand dunes....

Sometimes our patch over here in the mid-west of Western Australia can seem like a long way from the action - with many of the major conservation events and functions being held in the eastern...

The National Threatened Species Commissioner Gregory Andrews invited Indigenous Rangers Rita Cutter, Nolia Napangarti-Ward and her daughter Jodie Ward to Canberra. He asked them to speak about the...

I recently returned from a rewarding trip to the first ever Indigenous Bilby Festival with four Birriliburu Rangers: Ruth Wongawol, Caroline Long, Leonie Anderson and Rita Cutter.

On behalf of the Birriliburu ranger team, Senior Ranger Rita Cutter recently visited the Western Australian Herbarium to deliver a plant press full of bush tucker specimens.

The Birriliburu Indigenous Protected Area (IPA), home of the Martu people, consists of 6.6 million hectares of desert country (approximately the size of Tasmania!) north of Wiluna in Western...

Find out more about my first trip to the Birriliburu Indigenous Protected Area (IPA), one of the traditional homes of the Martu people. The IPA is over 6.6 million hectares located 250km north of...