Restoring an ecosystem at the ‘people’s reserve’

Eleanor Hetharia, Bush Heritage’s Head of Region South-East, will never forget what she saw at Nardoo Hills Reserve in early 2014.

Live from Eurardy Reserve, mid-west WA. Join our Reserve Manager, Sam Fischer, and Restoration Ecologist, Fiamma Riviera, who chat with host Matthew Taylor and our audience about the ongoing restoration efforts taking place on the reserve.

An ambitious project, jointly managed by Bush Heritage Australia and Greening Australia, will help wildlife move across a globally recognised biodiversity hotspot by restoring a critical piece of habitat between the Fitzgerald River and the Stirling Range National Parks in southern Western Australia.

Bush Heritage Australia has made a significant purchase of the quirkily named Dodgey Downs, creating nearly 4,000 hectares of connected bushland in this globally significant biodiversity hotspot for threatened species such as Noolbenger (Honey Possum), Gnow (Malleefowl) and Ngoolark (Carnaby’s Cockatoo).

‘Generation Restoration’ is this year’s World Environmental Day theme, and it couldn’t be more aptly timed alongside our campaign to purchase and restore Dodgey Downs.

The first seeds of a world-class restoration project are planted and set the bar for future carbon projects.

On Eurardy Reserve, Nanda Country, Western Australia, a project began four years ago to plant one million trees and shrubs - the largest revegetation project in Bush Heritage's history.

A weekend of tree planting at Scottsdale Reserve restores the land and soul. Explore how Bush Heritage volunteers and supporters are planting seeds of change.

At Nardoo Hills Reserve in central Victoria climate change is causing extensive dieback of Grey Box and Yellow Box trees.

Ngulambarra, which means meeting place in the Dja Dja Wurrung language, provides connectivity between another Bush Heritage's Lawan reserve, and Ngarri (Mt Egbert).

Big Sky Country Podcast: The climate has always changed. But in recent years, these changes have been drastically faster and more noticeable. So much so that, in some cases, they're causing trees to die.

The bushfires of January 2020 left Australia’s second-longest river, the Murrumbidgee, thick with ash and silt. Now, its waters are clearer thanks to a community-led effort to restore its health.

Scientific research into ecological restoration has traditionally focused on plants and animals. But what about what’s in the soil?

Decades ago, parts of Eurardy Reserve were cleared for agriculture. Now, we’re embarking on our largest revegetation project ever to restore what was lost. 

Rather than lose hope when eucalypts started dying in central Victoria, Bush Heritage scientists came up with an innovative solution using future climate scenarios.