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Our reserves and partnerships in Western Australia help protect over 4.1 million hectares. Work is focused in the Fitz-Stirling region in the south-west, the mid-west and conservation partnerships with Aboriginal groups in the northern region.


South-west reserves:  Beringa | Chereninup | Dodgey Downs | Ediegarrup | Kojonup | Monjebup | Red Moort

Mid-west reserves:  Charles Darwin | Eurardy | Hamelin

Northern Aboriginal partnerships: Birriliburu | Bunuba | Karajarri | Wunambal Gaambera

Beringa

Established: 2007
Area: 1,142 ha
Location: 380km south east of Perth

Beringa plays a critical role in protecting mallet and moort woodlands, which are vulnerable to frequent fires. It also protects some of the most important intact riparian (creekside) land in the region.

Beringa Reserve
Flat-topped yate and flowering wattle edge the waters of Chereninup Creek.
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Flat-topped yate and flowering wattle edge the waters of Chereninup Creek.
Honey Possum. Photo Kieran MacFarlane.
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Honey Possum. Photo Kieran MacFarlane.

Chereninup Creek

Established: 2002
Area: 897 ha
Location: 430km south east of Perth

Part of a vital habitat link between the Fitzgerald River and Stirling Range national parks. Three woodland types almost eliminated from the WA wheat belt region are protected: york gum, flat-topped yate and granite sheoak.

Chereninup Creek Reserve

Dodgey Downs

Established: 2024
Area: 762 ha
Location: 430km south east of Perth

Provides connection between our Red Moort and Monjebup Reserves. Once we restore habitat on this property, together these reserves will provide nearly 4,000 hectares of connected bushland in a globally significant biodiversity hotspot.

Dodgey Downs Reserve
Alex Hams looks out over cleared land adjacent our reserves.
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Alex Hams looks out over cleared land adjacent our reserves.
Carnaby's Cockatoos at Monjebup. Photo Krysta Guille
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Carnaby's Cockatoos at Monjebup. Photo Krysta Guille.

Ediegarrup

Established: 2022
Area: 1,067 ha
Location: 430km south east of Perth

Alongside Red Moort Reserve, nearby Corackerup Creek and partner Chingarrup Sanctuary, Ediegarrup contributes to a conservation corridor and provides critical habitat for Malleefowl, Tammar and Black-gloved Wallabies, and nationally threatened Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos.

Ediegarrup Reserve

Kojonup

Established: 1996
Area: 389 ha
Location: 270km south east of Perth

The largest protected area of wandoo woodlands in the region, it shows us what this country was like before the destructive policies of the 1960s, when a million acres of WA bushland a year was burned, buried and bulldozed for broad-acre farming.

Kojonup Reserve
Red-tailed Pascogale at Kojonup WA. Photo Jeroen van Veen
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Red-tailed Pascogale at Kojonup WA. Photo Jeroen van Veen
Pygmy Possum in hand on Monjebup WA. Photo Nic Duncan
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Pygmy Possum in hand on Monjebup Reserve WA. Photo Nic Duncan.

Monjebup

Established: 2007
Area: 2,128 ha
Location: 430km south east of Perth

The Monjebup and Monjebup North reserves protect a significant patch of bushland that’s critical to restoring and relinking the landscape between the Stirling Range and Fitzgerald River national parks.

Monjebup Reserve

Red Moort

Established: 2014
Area: 1,042 ha
Location: 430km south east of Perth

Protects some of the area’s most at‑risk plant communities including mallee heath and yate woodlands. Home, also, to the Michael Tichbon Field Station – our headquarters in the region.

Red Moort Reserve
Wildflower at red Moort. Photo Jiri Lochman
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Wildflower at Red Moort. Photo Jiri Lochman.
Magnificent Eucalypts at Charles Darwin Reserve, WA. Photo Paul Evans
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Magnificent Eucalypts at Charles Darwin Reserve, WA. Photo Paul Evans

Charles Darwin

Established: 2003
Area: 68,600 ha
Location: 355km north east of Perth

Named in honour of the great naturalist, this reserve lies on the northern edge of the WA wheat belt and extends into the more arid Eremaean Province to the north, falling largely within the Southwest Botanical Province – an internationally recognised biodiversity ‘hotspot’.

Charles Darwin Reserve

Eurardy

Established: 2005
Area: 30,050 ha
Location: 145km north of Geraldton

Land clearing and the spread of salinity have devastated much of this region, making the remaining bushland on Eurardy exceptionally important for species such as the nationally vulnerable Malleefowl.

Eurardy Reserve
Wreath flower at Eurardy WA. Photo Gerard O'Neill
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Wreath flower at Eurardy WA. Photo Gerard O'Neill
Red-capped Robin on Hamelin Station. Photo Aline Gibson Vega
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Red-capped Robin on Hamelin Station. Photo Aline Gibson Vega

Hamelin Station

Established: 2015
Area: 202,644 ha
Location: 250km north of Geraldton

Abutting the shore of Hamelin Pool and the Shark Bay World Heritage Area, Hamelin Station is a former sheep station of exceptional conservation importance.

Hamelin Station Reserve

Birriliburu

Established: 2011
Area: 300,000 ha
Location: 500km SE of of Port Headland

The Birriliburu Indigenous Protected Area covers 6.6 million hectares in the Little Sandy and Gibson Deserts – roughly the size as Tasmania. The Traditional Custodians are the Martu people who’ve established a ranger program.

Birriliburu partnership
Traditional shoe weaving demonstration. Photo Annette Ruzicka.
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Traditional shoe weaving demonstration. Photo Annette Ruzicka.
Bunuba Rangers.
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Bunuba Rangers. Photo Steve Heggie.

Bunuba

Established: 2014
Area: 650,000 ha
Location: North of Fitzroy Crossing

Bunuba country is in the central-west Kimberley surrounding the township of Fitzroy Crossing and including Giekie Gorge, Tunnel Creek and Windjana Gorge National Parks.

Bunuba partnership

Karajarri

Established: 2018
Partnership area: 2.1 million ha
Location: 190km south of Broome

Known as the gateway to the Kimberley, Karajarri Country comprises Jurarr (coastal country), and Pirra (inland country) including red dunes of the Great Sandy Desert. Supporting more Karajarri women to work on country is the main focus of our partnership.

Karajarri partnership
Karajarri women rangers.
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Karajarri women rangers. Photo William Marwick.
Mitchell Falls.
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Mitchell Falls. Photo courtesy Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation.

Wunambal Gaambera

Established: 2011
Area: 759,806 ha
Location: 600km north east of Derby

The land and waters of the Wunambal Gaambera people covers an incredible 2.5 million hectares of white sandy beaches, rocky escarpments and rugged gorges. We’ve helped create a Healthy Country Plan and worked on the ground with Traditional Custodians and rangers.

Wunambal Gaambera partnership