When Olivia Barratt was just a baby, her grandmother recognised in her a love of nature.
“She’s going to be a botanist, or an ornithologist.”
As Olivia grew older, the bush became an important part of her life. Regular family camping trips were an opportunity to explore rock pools and waterfalls.
“I love finding little animals we’ve never seen before,” Olivia says. She wants to be like David Attenborough when she gets older.
Now at age ten years old, Olivia is a staunch advocate of the Night Parrot and is spreading the word among her classmates about why it must be protected. 
Her parents even drove an hour with Olivia to collect red dirt in order to show her classmates the kind of habitat the Night Parrot inhabits.
“We thought the Night Parrot was extinct, but now we have a second chance to help save them. I want to help them.”
“If there was no bush, we wouldn’t learn a lot of things from plants and animals. When I’m older, in 25 years, I would like the bush to be nice and healthy, so the Night Parrot could be everywhere and other endangered animals too.”
It is Olivia and her friends that inherit the bush we as Australians leave behind us.
BUSHTRACKS 30/09/2016
From those humble beginnings I could only dream that Bush Heritage Australia would grow to the scale we know today. Bush Heritage currently owns more than 1.2 million hectares of lands and is contracted to help in the protection of another 5.6 million hectares of Aboriginal lands and seas.
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For Bush Heritage Australia volunteer Nick Barratt, what began as a camping trip with mates turned into a deep affection for South Australia’s Boolcoomatta Station Reserve.
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An environmental officer by trade and Bush Heritage volunteer in her spare time, Heike Erberhard explains why the work of Bush Heritage is vital to Australia.
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The Greater Bilby is one of many creatures that have benefited from the meeting of western scientific research and traditional ecological knowledge, since Bush Heritage and our many Aboriginal partners began working together in 2004.
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The 2010 translocation of 30 Red-tailed Phascogales to Kojonup Reserve in Western Australia signalled a maturing of approach for Bush Heritage Australia.
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Rod Martin has supported Bush Heritage since the beginning, and he and his wife Annette recently made the decision to leave a gift to the organisation in his Will. Rod talks about why Bush Heritage is so important to him.
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Scientists from all walks of life are drawn to the red sands of Ethabuka Reserve to volunteer under the expert guidance of our research partners from The University of Sydney.
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