Kangaroos | Bush Heritage Australia
网页Kangaroos are of cultural and spiritual significance to Aboriginal people across Australia. Plus, their meat was, and continues to be, a staple protein source; pelts were used for clothing and rugs; and their skin crafted into water bags. Kangaroos are the world’s largest marsupials. A Red Kangaroo can weigh 90kg and can grow two metres tall.
Healthy Country Protected Forever | Bush Heritage Australia
网页Bush Heritage Australia. is a leading not-for-profit conservation organisation that protects ecosystems and wildlife across the continent. We use the best science, conservation and right-way knowledge to deliver landscape-scale impact. We’re on the ground, working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the agricultural sector ...
Goannas (Monitor Lizards) - Bush Heritage Australia
网页Goannas. Part of an ancient lineage that evolved in the northern hemisphere during the Cretaceous period – about 90 million years ago! Goannas (or Monitor Lizards) radiated from the north to Africa and Australia during the Miocene epoch, around 15 million years ago and have an important place in our history and culture.
Bandicoots - Bush Heritage Australia
网页The Long-nosed Bandicoot has bristly grey-brown fur, a white underbelly and pointed ears, weighs around 1.5kg and is 30cm to 43cm long. The Northern Brown Bandicoot has brown fur, a short tail, rounded ears and a slightly larger body (up to 2.1 kg and 47cm long). Bandicoots live between two to four years.
Native Australian Species - Bush Heritage Australia
网页Across our reserves and partnership properties we're protecting more than 9,000 native plant and animal species – including hundreds of threatened species. We focus work in our priority landscapes – areas selected on the basis of national biodiversity priorities, location of existing reserves and opportunities for strategic partnerships.
Grass Trees - Bush Heritage Australia
网页Grass trees epitomise the Australian bush: they’re beautiful, ancient, hardy, thrive in nutrient-poor soils and respond to wildfire by flowering profusely. Grass trees are iconic plants, recognisable even to budding botanists. All 66 species are only found in Australia. They're all perennial, flowering plants.
Koalas - Bush Heritage Australia
网页Koalas are possibly our most iconic native animals; instantly recognisable worldwide as a symbol of Australia and found nowhere else. Sadly, their dramatic and continuing decline is perhaps just as symbolic. Perched high in gum trees, with their stocky, tailless body, large heads and fluffy ears, Koalas live almost entirely on eucalyptus leaves ...
Thorny Devils - Bush Heritage Australia
网页The Thorny Devil is marred with a wicked common name, and its Latin species name horridus doesn’t seem much better.It’s actually a harmless, slow-moving ant-eater, and horridus means bristly, referring to the reptile’s erect stance.. The Thorny Devil is a diurnal (day-active) reptile reaching 20cm in length. It’s covered in thorny spines and sports a …
Platypus - Bush Heritage Australia
网页A unique, venomous, semi-aquatic mammal that lays eggs and uses electroreception to find its prey. From top to tail, a platypus can be 60cm long. Males can weigh 3kg; females 1.7kg. In colder climates they can grow slightly larger, but don’t come close to the size of prehistoric platypuses, which were a metre long!
Land clearing | Bush Heritage Australia
网页Land clearance greatly impacts on the health of rivers and coastal ecosystems. It increases erosion and the runoff of sediment, nutrients and other pollutants into coastal waters, causing damage to coral reefs and other marine ecosystems such as seagrass beds. Increased nutrients in rivers and streams can cause outbreaks of toxic algae.
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