Australia is famed for its colourful parrots, and the Golden-shouldered Parrot is no exception. The male’s plumage is turquoise and orange, with a black crown and bright yellow shoulder feathers. The ...

If you drive an hour west of Broken Hill, past the backdrop of Mad Max II, feral goats and frantic emus, you'll reach a dirt track that leads to a former sheep station, now our Boolcoomatta Station ...

We’re thrilled to share this year’s Impact Report, a celebration of the achievements we made for nature over the past twelve months – none of which are possible without you. Together, we stepped up ...

Just 45 minutes south of Canberra, this unique reserve is home to some of Australia’s most threatened temperate ecosystems. Around 300 hectares of this property had been cleared for farming, so ...

Across our reserves and partnership properties we're protecting more than 9,000 native species – including hundreds of threatened species. We focus work in our priority landscapes – areas selected on ...

Bush Heritage Australia is a leading conservation not-for-profit protecting ecosystems and wildlife in landscapes across the continent. Bushtracks is our quarterly magazine and a recap of our impact.

Every year, land clearing encroaches further and further into Australia’s natural habitats. The large-scale destruction of native woodlands, forests, wetlands and grasslands is widely considered the ...

Pogona comes from the Greek ‘pogon’, meaning beard and refers to a flap of skin below their jaws that they push forward and ‘puff up’ when threatened. There are several species of bearded dragon in ...

Reedy Creek Reserve, near the town of Agnes Water, protects a very rare thing – intact Queensland coastal and riparian forest that has, elsewhere, been dramatically cleared for development. The ...

The Thorny Devil is marred with a wicked common name, and its Latin species name Moloch horridus doesn’t seem much better. It’s actually a harmless, slow-moving ant-eater, and horridus means bristly, ...

Recognisable by their distinctive tails – rust coloured at the top with a black and bushy end, the Red-tailed Phascogale is a carnivorous marsupial that lives off insects, spiders and small birds.

Pygmy possums could melt the hardest of hearts. But they’re not just pretty faces: though they can’t glide, they use their prehensile (grasping) tails like fifth limbs to climb swiftly and can deftly ...