Bush Heritage Australia

Wombat Forest Care had been pushing for the protection of the Wombat-Loderberg area since 2010.

Fifteen years later, Matt, executive director of Bush Heritage Australia, said what those 15 years of adequacy had been building toward.

He said, today we get to see the protection these forests deserve.

Greater gliders glide between trees on a membrane that stretches from elbow to ankle.

Traditional owners in North Queensland have joined forces with the conservation organisation to reclaim access to a culturally significant parcel of rainforest.

Bush Heritage Australia and Jittable Traditional Owners hope to purchase the property known as Woorooa around $24.7 million, but a final $5.3 million payment is needed before December 24th.

The landscape of Woodawa is home to at least 12 threatened species and more than 30 of conservation significance, including the southern cassowary, northern greater glider and the magnificent brood frog.

The plan is to remove the fence line with the neighbouring Yorker Reserve, creating a protected corridor of more than 400,000 hectares with Kumbulumba and Tully Falls National Parks.

Traditional owners in North Queensland have joined forces with a conservation organisation to reclaim access to a culturally significant parcel of rainforest.

Bush Heritage Australia and Gibral Traditional Owners hope to purchase the property known as Worura for around $24.7 million, but a final $5.3 million payment is needed before December 24th.

The landscape of Rurura is home to at least 12 threatened species and more than 30 of conservation significance, including the southern cassowary, northern greater glider and magnificent brood frog.

The plan is to remove the fence line with the neighbouring Yurka Reserve, creating a protected corridor of more than 400,000 hectares with Kumbulumba and Tully National Parks.

So we've donated over $180,000 in cash now to nonprofit organizations.

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It's just less than an hour by sealed road from Launceston.

Paul and I gave it to Bush Heritage years ago, and these days there's a, a very beautiful, across the river, caretaker's cottage and caretakers there to look after visitors when they come.

And I love the idea that they can get some of the joy out of that place that it gave me over many decades during the Franklin campaign-

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