Impact Report

Conservation Futures is a collaboration across sectors and organisations towards the concept of an ‘Integrated Knowledge System’, where knowledge of Country and landscapes can be securely stored.

This year, at Eurardy Reserve on Nanda Country in mid-north Western Australia, we led an innovative project to restore the iconic understorey of annual wildflowers.

When Bruce Hammond first laid eyes on the Breakaways at Evelyn Downs, he saw an opportunity to support the protection of one of the most significant parcels of Country for Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people. 

We gratefully acknowledge Djaara (the Dja Dja Wurrung people), the Traditional Custodians of Djandak (Dja Dja Wurrung Country) in central Victoria, for over 14 years of partnership.

As the habitat at Dodgey Downs is restored, it will allow native species to increase and diversify their populations, expand their distribution and, by doing so, build their resilience to climate change. 

Protecting, restoring, and regenerating the land involves baseline ecological monitoring for BackTrack guides and healing strategies for Country. 

One in four woodland-dependant birds are listed as threatened, and their populations are declining. Monitoring sheds light on how we can protect them.

How far would you go to track down an ant and a butterfly? Whatever your answer, it's probably very different from the Australian National University’s Associate Professor Michael Braby and Honours student Ethan Beaver.

Preliminary results are in from Macdoch Foundation’s Farming for the Future research project and they indicate a positive link between biodiversity and prosperity.

At Burrin Burrin Reserve, as the sky began to lose its layers of daytime colour, Renee Hartley added layers of warmth, anticipating the approaching dark.

Prescribed burns on Pilungah and Ethabuka reserves, Wangkamadla Country, prepare the landscape for bushfire season and enhance biodiversity.

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

At Carnarvon, Bidjara Country, viny worlds of endemicity and slimy species are smoothing the path to Special Wildlife Reserve status.

With support from the Indigenous Desert Alliance, six Indigenous ranger groups to were invited to Pullen Pullen to share knowledge of the Night Parrot.