Bush Heritage’s team at Hamelin Station Reserve share their thoughts about the property and the role they’ll play in protecting it.
You feel the opportunity to make a difference when you drive through this country. It’s very beautiful to see the dramatic changes in the vegetation and the landscape as you drive around.
From the cliff tops at Hamelin you can see for kilometres – the stromatolites, the beach and the coastal dunes. The trees there are spectacularly snarled and weather-beaten but they dig their roots in and just keep growing. You can’t help but be inspired by the place.
There is always something, no matter where you are, even walking around the homestead here, there’s always an incredible bug or lizard crawling around, that you haven’t seen before.
There are only two places in the world where modern stromatolites are currently accreting, in the marine realm. One is in the Bahamas and the second is here. The amount of stromatolites in the Bahamas would fit into just one of the bays at Hamelin.
BUSHTRACKS 16/06/2016
Over billions of years, a complex interaction between climate and environment at Hamelin Pool has created the miracle of ‘living fossils’ called stromatolites. These extraordinary natural monuments contain microbes similar to those found in 3,500-million-year-old fossils – the earliest record of life on Earth.
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Welcome to Hamelin Station Reserve, nestled in the rangelands of Western Australia, where the stunning beauty of the landscape conceals an urgent need for conservation.
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For the vulnerable endemic species found on Hamelin, the old saying “it’s a small world” couldn’t be more apt. With suitable habitat a precious rarity, careful land management could offer a better future for these threatened creatures.
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For more than 130 years Hamelin Station Reserve has been a pastoral station, home to sheep and goats. Its new future as a conservation property meant removing stock. A lot of it. Brian Wake and Jock Isdale were the men for the job.
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On a property as big as our Hamelin Reserve, challenges abound. But with your help, our team of land managers and ecologists will work together with our neighbours, partners and volunteers to revitalise the landscape.
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Hamelin Station Reserve (WA) is already a hive of research activity. Its location and unique ecological values have put it on the scientific map. But this is just the beginning.
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