There's nothing dodgy about our next property purchase - aside from its name! Help us buy Dodgey Downs today and allow us to connect precious remnant bushland - we need to raise $5 million by July 1 to make it happen.
The property is 762-hectares of mostly cleared land separating our Monjebup and Red Moort Reserves. With your help, we can purchase the land, revegetate it and create nearly 4,000 hectares of connected bushland in this globally significant biodiversity hotspot.
Help us buy the missing piece of the puzzle today and your donation will be matched by an equally generous donor*!
Located on Goreng-Noongar Country, between the Fitzgerald River and Stirling Ranges National Parks in WA, this area has many species found nowhere else on the planet.
Due to past land clearing, the remaining pockets of natural habitat are fragmented and scattered across the landscape. Our work in the area has focused on reconnecting habitat corridors for species to move through the landscape.
We need to raise $5 million to purchase the land, revegetate the barren ground and turn this key property into a nature reserve.
I’m Alex Hams, Healthy Landscapes Manager for Bush Heritage in south-west WA. Over the past two decades our nature reserves here have given the threatened Noolbenger (Honey Possum), Gnow (Malleefowl) and Ngoolark (Carnaby’s Cockatoo) a better chance to survive and thrive.
While this new property has been largely cleared, we've shown we can bring the bush back with the revegetation work we've done at our other nature reserves in the Fitz-Stirling Ranges.
With your support, fences can soon come down allowing the land to breathe a little easier. With room to grow and connect, we can continue to heal this amazing country and protect it for generations to come.
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About Bush Heritage
Bush Heritage Australia is a leading not-for-profit conservation organisation protecting ecosystems and wildlife across the continent.
We’re grounded in science and culture to protect and heal Country forever. We’re on the ground, working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the agricultural sector to deliver landscape-scale impact.
Main image above: Honey possum on revegetated bush at Monjebup Reserve. Photo by Kieran MacFarlane.