Bush Heritage Australia
Website: Bush Heritage Australia
Bush Heritage Australia currently owns and manages many reserves throughout Australia. These reserves are protecting and safeguarding several hundred threatened vegetation communities and threatened plants and animals.
Since 1999, with more than $8 million from the Australian Government, Bush Heritage have added 11 protected areas, covering over 859,010 hectares.
List of properties purchased by Bush Heritage with NRS Program support
Name |
State |
Financial Year |
IBRA Region |
Hectares |
Australian Government Funds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NSW |
1999/2000 |
NSW South Western Slopes (NSS) |
364 |
$193,700 |
|
QLD |
2000/2001 |
Brigalow Belt South (BBS) |
81 |
$21,836 |
|
QLD |
2000/2001 |
Brigalow Belt South (BBS) |
59,052 |
$1,210,779 |
|
WA |
2002/2003 |
Avon Wheatbelt (AW) |
69,619 |
$239,109 |
|
QLD |
2003/2004 |
Channel Country (CK) / |
214,000 |
$450,000 |
|
VIC |
2004/2005 |
Victorian Midlands (VM) |
342 |
$77,494 |
|
WA |
2004/2005 |
Esperance Plains (ESP) |
956 |
$120,000 |
|
QLD |
2005/2006 |
Channel Country (CK) / |
233,568 |
$1,867,637 |
|
SA |
2005/2006 |
Broken Hill Complex (BHC) / |
63,000 |
$1,456,394 |
|
NSW |
2006/2007 |
South Eastern Highlands (SEH) |
1,328 |
$407,000 |
|
| Bon Bon Reserve | SA | 2007/2008 | Stony Plains (STP) / Gawler (GAW) |
216,700 | 2,093,374 |
Bush Heritage Australia plays a leadership role in visionary projects to reconnect fragmented landscapes and restore them to health, collaborating on projects like Gondwana Link in Western Australia and Kosciusko to Coast in NSW. The imperative is to rebuild habitats across large swathes of country which will allow wildlife to move and adapt to climate change.