After more than six years of dedicated revegetation and landscape management, a once-rare sighting of a mother and joey koala has become a rewarding symbol of success for conservation agreement-holder John Blanch.
After years of persistent drought, the Central West has experienced nearly four years of above-average rainfall after the drought-breaking downpours of 2020.
They might be almost 100 kms apart but Murray-Riverina region properties, Dogleg Swamp and Warrangee, have a very special thing in common: they’re both protecting native woodlands and generating carbon credits under a first-of-it
Gordon and Eirlys Farrant may come from two different sides of the world, but together they found their home on the Wakool River in the western Riverina district.
When three friends purchased Wallamara 26 years ago, they realised a rare opportunity to acquire freehold land adjacent to a declared wilderness national park, and containing remnant koala habitat.
Kyogle landholder Don Durrant has owned his lush rainforest property for 30 years and he's lost count of the number of native trees he’s propagated and planted in that time.
In 2007, when Candy Lawrence and her partner Bob moved to their remote, forested property in the Bungawalbin wetlands, they knew they had found the peace and privacy they had been looking for.
With bushfires and floods continuing to threaten the land and our communities, Ludo McFerran’s story is testimony to her hard work and dedication to conservation.
Sit at the kitchen table with Jill and Ken Hooper and there’ll be Ken, mug in hand with a label that reads ‘The Boss’, and Jill, yet to pull up a chair, buzzing about the kitchen and calling out a quip or two to back up something Ken’s said.
