Gifts in Wills Honour Board

Where's your happy place in nature? For lifelong supporter Michael Bird it's among Albany’s coastal scrub.

In the bush, magic comes to you when you slow down and embrace the quiet. Supporter Davydd Shaw's happy place is Wilsons Prom. 

In 1993, my husband, Peter, and I purchased an old dairy farm in South Australia’s Hindmarsh Valley, Ngarrindjeri Country. We wanted an escape from the city of Adelaide and for our kids to experience a regular connection to the natural bush.

This story begins in one of Sydney’s many estuarine river systems, where kids would gather to wash off a day of school and immerse themselves in the natural world.

Where the King River enters Oyster Harbour in Albany, Minang Country, Western Australia, is a slim stretch of bush that leads to an age-old Osprey nest. For Ian and I, this is our happy place.

Freshwater flows east from the mountains, it thunders down waterfalls into calm, clear pools, navigates green paddocks and rainforests, before emerging through Melaleuca-stained estuaries and spilling into the Pacific Ocean.

Mike and Eva Palmer see the loss of wild habitat as one of the single biggest threats to wildlife on Earth. So they decided to do something about it. Their legacy – a bequest to Bush Heritage – will help safeguard native species for many generations to come.

Susan and Peter feel an intimate connection to the Australian bush, which is why they’ve left a gift in their Wills that will help ensure its protection into the future.

Long-time Bush Heritage supporter and volunteer Annelie Holden once used her bush property as an escape from the city. Now she's donated it to Bush Heritage so it can start a new life as a conservation reserve and our first ever education centre.

Introducing The Round House, Bush Heritage's newest reserve! This beautiful 88-hectare bush block has been generously gifted to us by long-term supporter and volunteer,

Meet one of our long‑term supporters, John Hutchinson, whose early interest in electronics and his love of the Australian bush has led him to create the world’s pre‑eminent collection of Western Australian bird songs.