A look back at key milestones and how the organisation has grown.
Founded by Bob Brown and core group in Tasmania.
With the purchase of Fan Palm Reserve in Queensland, Bush Heritage took the first step to becoming a national organisation.
Brogo Reserve, New South Wales, was purchased after a donor approached Bush Heritage wanting to support the purchase of land that would protect Koala habitat - that was prescient!
With Kojonup, Bush Heritage protected the last large remnant of Wandoo woodland in south-west Western Australia. The acquisition demonstrated the organisation's commitment to working closely with local community groups in reserve management.
Bush Heritage took on the lease of Tasmania's Erith Island, in Bass Strait, and began the significant task of clearing the island of weeds and feral animals.
The purchase of this stunning, 121 hectare reserve on Tasmania's east coast extended the protection of its famous neighbour, Freycinet National Park.
New reserves acquired in Queensland and Tasmania.
Bush Heritage takes on the lease of Tasmania's Deal Island in the Bass Strait.
The area of land that Bush Heritage protected grew more with the purchase of two new reserves in New South Wales.
Tucked into the hinterland of Queensland's bustling Gold Coast lies Currumbin Valley Reserve, a tiny patch of regenerating rainforest protected in 2000 from the frenzy of development around it.
In 2000, the lease for Deal Island was handed back to the Tasmanian Government and, in 2002, Erith Island was handed back too (with many fewer weeds and ferals).
The acquisition of the 59,000 hectare Carnarvon Station, with its $1.5 million price tag, was a turning point for Bush Heritage and its first acquisition of this size and cost.
Bush Heritage announced its involvement in the audacious Gondwana Link project in south-west Western Australia, the aim of which was to reconnect and recreate native habitats over a 1000 kilometre stretch of fragmented country.
Chereninup Creek Reserve became the first property to be purchased for Gondwana Link.
Charles Darwin is honoured by his great-great grandson Chris through the purchase of White Wells Station (to become Charles Darwin Reserve), on Badimaya country. The renaissance of a degraded West Australian pastoral property began.
The fencing program began at Carnarvon to protect the many small springs being destroyed by pigs and other ferals. The transformation was amazing and immediate. Life came back to the springs.
The first seeds were sown in cleared country on Chereninup Creek Reserve.
Bush Heritage moves into the desert with the purchase of Ethabuka, a 215,500 hectare haven for many birds, reptiles and small mammals.
Reedy Creek Reserve in Queensland is part of a 600 hectare coastal strip bought by developer Michael Myer Called Sunrise@1770.
Since European settlement, Victoria has lost many of its woodlands to land clearance, but in 2004 Bush Heritage began working to reverse that trend with the purchase of the first part of Nardoo Hills Reserve, on Dja Dja Wurrung country.
Hunter Island off the north-west tip of Tasmania slips through our fingers.
It was decided that to grow and have a truly national presence, the organisation's headquarters needed to move from Hobart to the mainland.
The 233,000 hectare reserve in far western Queensland protects part of the Pituri trail, an Aboriginal trading route, some of the oldest fossils in Australia and parts of the Toko and Toomba Ranges.
The 30,000 hectare reserve in mid-west WA on Nanda country became Bush Heritage's 20th reserve.
Bush Heritage completed its first strategic plan for land acquisition and community partnerships: 'Anchors in the Landscape'.
An hour west of Broken Hill, on Adnyamathanha and Wiljakali country in the arid rangelands of South Australia, Boolcoomatta is a 63,000 hectare former sheep station.
Flanked by the Murrumbidgee River and just 45 minutes south of Canberra, Scottsdale Reserve on Ngunawal country would become a hub of volunteer activity for years to come.
Ruby saltbush is recorded again in saltpans at Charles Darwin Reserve after the removal of stock and goats.
The Beyond the Boundaries program saw Bush Heritage broaden its approach to conservation beyond the borders of its own reserves, to encompass collaborations with neighbouring landowners, governments, other conservation organisations and Traditional Owners.
Yourka sits on Jirrbal and Warrungu country in the Einasleigh Uplands of far north Queensland, 130 kilometres south of Cairns.
Revegetation work at Yarrabee Wesfarmers Reserve sets a new biodiversity benchmark with seed mixes carefully selected for soil type, aspects, etc.
Structured Ecological Outcomes Monitoring was set up to track the impact of our work. The demands of the program outstripped staff capacity to deliver them for some years.
The resting place of environmental activist and thinker Richard Sylvan, this reserve was generously donated to us by his wife Louise.
Forged first Aboriginal partnership with Wunumbal Gaambera. This would set the benchmark for many more.
The purchase of Edgbaston, which is home to the last population of Red-finned Blue-eye fish, reinforced Bush Heritage's commitment to threatened species conservation.
This massive 216,700 hectare former sheep station on Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara country in South Australia is roughly the size of Sydney!
The Conservation Council of Western Australia has set up a Climate Change Observatory on Charles Darwin Reserve.
Northern Golden Moths Orchid discovered at Nardoo Hills.
In September 2009, the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) was declared, which, combined with the neighbouring Djelk IPA conserved over 2 million hectares.
Two Bush Heritage supporters, Jenny and John Barnett, tragically died in their Steels Creek home when it burnt during Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires. Their legacy gift helped Bush Heritage through the worst of the Global Financial Crisis and, in 2013, lead to the purchase of a new reserve named in their honour.
In 2009, Bush Heritage achieved one of its early goals: to protect 1 percent of Australia's landmass, or 7 million hectares.
In 2010, Bush Heritage commenced its first translocation project, re-introducing endangered Red-tailed Phascogales to its Kojonup Reserve in Western Australia.
The purchase of the 1021-hectare Monjebup Reserve, on Noongar country, was a significant step in Bush Heritage's work to reconnect the Stirling Range and Fitzgerald River national parks in south-west Western Australia.
A Yellow-footed Rock-Wallaby is spotted on Boolcoomatta Reserve, in South Australia, for the first time since 1924.
The Robust Greenhood, thought extinct, is rediscovered at Nardoo Hills Reserve in Victoria.
John Griffin wanted to leave a legacy for future generations. The John Colahan Griffin Nature Reserve is that special gift – an ancient woodland haven for bushland birds that are declining across Victoria.
Bob Brown gifts his property, Oura Oura, in Tasmania's Liffey Valley, to Bush Heritage.
The tragic field death of staff member ‘Mo’ Mauritz Pieterse at Ethabuka Reserve, on the edge of the Simpson Desert in Queensland, changed Bush Heritage forever.
Naree Station Reserve, Budjiti country in remote north-western New South Wales, is aptly described as the "wetlands in the outback".
The launch of the Tasmanian Midlands Conservation Fund marked the beginning of a new and innovative partnership with Tasmanian farmers who have highly threatened vegetation communities on their properties.
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