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The bush is a place of awe and wonder – with its sand dune swales and lichen-soaked forests, its rugged bark and flowering banksias.
Our purpose is to return the bush to good health, so we can pass these wonders on to the next generations. But over the past 200 years, the balance of our delicate ecosystems has been thrown off and the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are accelerating.
We feel it when we smell smoke from out-of-control bushfires in our city streets. We hear it in the silence of the bush, when there are no longer the bird calls of our childhood. And we see it when we drive past swathes of desertified or damaged land.
Our work is guided by our 2030 strategy that builds on what we've learnt and achieved over more than three decades of conservation. We're an organisation with a tangible vision and the tools and people to achieve it.
Our team of scientists, field staff, data specialists, conservation planners and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Managers work every day to heal and protect the bush. We are on the ground, actively managing the landscapes in our reserve network and working side-by-side with Traditional Custodians and private landholders to deepen and double our impact at landscape-scale.
For more than 30 years we have been buying land to conserve Australia’s unique species and irreplaceable landscapes. Our work is on a vast scale, for the long term.
We work in partnership with Traditional Custodians to protect and heal Country. They have a deep-held knowledge of natural ecology. We're led by their sophisticated land management practices and culture.
We work with farmers and other landholders to deliver landscape-scale conservation outcomes beyond the boundaries of our reserves.
Informing all the work we do, is our conservation science program. Ecologists and field staff work closely with partners, other researchers and Traditional Custodians to build and share knowledge, skills and capacity.
