Healthy Country. Protected Forever.

As part of the Seeding the Future Program, I undertook a PhD Internship with Bush Heritage Australia to study the changes in soil properties in response to destocking on Bon Bon Station Reserve, Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara Country.

Jo Axford (Head of Region North) and Bridget Roberts (Ecologist Paroo/Warrego) chat to host Matthew Taylor and our audience about the exciting opportunity to purchase a vital piece of bushland in the northern Murray Darling Basin - Nil Desperandum.

When Lola Lange presents her research on the Pink Cockatoo (Lophochroa leadbeateri), she always delivers one jaw-dropping statement: there has been no research to date on the bird in Queensland… barely anything is known about the species.

Leading conservation not-for-profit Bush Heritage Australia is fundraising to acquire a property that forms one of the most important waterbird breeding sites in Australia. 

Bush Heritage Australia's Vikki Parsley, Kelly Retief and Bambi Lees chat with host Matthew Taylor and our supporters about our Aboriginal Partnerships program, the Right Way approach and Healthy Country Planning.

In this special edition of Bush Broadcast, recorded live at stunning Reedy Creek Reserve, Christian McCollum and Stephen Kearney chat about work being undertaken at the reserve and the challenges of conservation management in an urban setting.

DJAARA, the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, and national conservation not-for-profit Bush Heritage Australia yesterday launched a shared plan to guide landscape management across nearly 3,000 hectares of Bush Heritage-managed reserves in north-west Victoria.

A Traditional Custodian once told me that ‘if you put your ear to a River Red Gum trunk, you can hear it drinking’.” This sparked our curiosity, so we tried and sure enough, we heard water being siphoned up. To sum up the value of trees in a few words is not easy, so we’ve dedicated this entire edition of Bushtracks to them.

There are characters in Bush Heritage’s story like the gibber pebbles that dot the landscape at Evelyn Downs Reserve – they go a long way back. Dr Alexander Gosling is one of those characters.

We’re building a secure digital place for biocultural knowledge to be stored and used.

A volunteer-led and long-term monitoring project will help protect York Gum woodlands against a warmer future.

Cultural burning in south-west Western Australia reconnects people to Noongar Country – and to each other.

Before it’s too late, we’re giving two of Tasmania’s lesser-known species the opportunity to thrive -  the Tasmanian Bertya (Bertya tasmanica subsp. tasmanica) and the South Esk Pine (Callitris oblonga subsp. oblonga)

Live from Eurardy Reserve, mid-west WA. Join our Reserve Manager, Sam Fischer, and Restoration Ecologist, Fiamma Riviera, who chat with host Matthew Taylor and our audience about the ongoing restoration efforts taking place on the reserve.

Bush Heritage has secured a highly competitive $1.6 million Game Changer Federal Government grant to work with eVorta and Timberscope to develop innovative methods for controlling feral cat populations across Australia.