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Volunteers Ken, Anton and Simon visited the block recently with committee member Peter to improve the farmhouse/research and education centre. Peter and Simon worked hard on the water catchment and piping system. They made...

Mid April saw BBG doing the first phase of its grant-funded feral animal control program: a party of licensed shooters spent two nights out looking for foxes and cats with some good success, then...

BBG committee ecologist Andy McCreery visited the block in March to prepare for non-native predator control measures that will be implemented this year. As part of feral cat monitoring cameras were placed in areas...

James Kennerley from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology helped with a range of surveys in addition to his cuckoo research at the block in November 2025. James and committee ecologist Sam Lostrom took a...

Not all birds play by the same rules and cuckoos are among the most surprising of them all! In November 2025, James Kennerley from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology visited the bush block to...

The second half of the first systematic trapping session at the conservation property continued, yielding a great diversity of species! A rain system moved through on a couple of days bringing out the frogs;...

Committee ecologists Sam Lostrom and Andrew McCreery were recently at the BBG property running the first systematic fauna trapping survey. This involves establishing pitfall, funnel and aluminium box traps in various habitats to describe...

Bush Blocks Guardians feral cat management program grant application has been successful, and we will receive $54,222 to undertake feral cat management on our 666 ha conservation property. The project will support threatened species...

The response to our recent art exhibition to raise money and awareness for the BBG was incredible. Opening day saw many people attend and most of the art selling, and it was wonderful to...

UPDATE: Yolanda Keeble took some samples to the WA Herbarium and this plant is now thought to be the more common Melaleuca haplantha. Our rare Wongan Melaleuca (Melaleuca sciotostyla) which occurs widely along our...