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Our conservation reserves in NSW protect over 20,000 hectares.
On this page: Brogo | Burrin Burrin | Nameless Sylvan | Naree | Nil Desperandum | Mawonga | Scottsdale | Tarcutta
Established: 1995
Area: 122 ha
Location: 20 km north of Bega
Traditional Custodians: Yuin djiringanj people
In the valley of the Brogo River, this reserve is one of the largest areas of intact bushland in the region. Australia has lost more than 90% of its dry rainforests. Brogo protects patches of the most southerly remnants in NSW.
Established: 1999
Area: 413 ha
Location: 80 km east of Canberra
Traditional Custodians: Ngambri, Yuin walbunja muncata and Ngarigo people
A place of deep, walled valleys and ferny valley floors. In the 1970s environmental activist Richard Sylvan came across this bushland property, destined to be cleared, and decided to buy it. He left it to us in his Will for ongoing protection.
Established: 2009
Location: 290 km west of Dubbo
Traditional Custodians: Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan
For Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan people Mawonga Station is a significant part of their traditional Country. Through the Winangakirri Aboriginal Corporation, it was bought on their behalf with funds from the National Reserve System program and Indigenous Land Corporation. We helped with the purchase, ecological assessments and management plans.
Established: 2007
Area: 56 ha
Location: 100 km south of Sydney
Traditional Custodians: Dharawal/Tharawal people
The resting place of environmental activist Richard Sylvan, this land was donated by his wife Louise. This small but magical reserve protects Illawarra subtropical rainforest, including red cedars, giant stinging trees, brush bloodwoods and native figs.
Established: 2012
Area: 14,172 ha
Location: 130 km north west of Bourke
Traditional Custodians: Budjiti people
On the inland floodplains of northern NSW, Naree sits at the head of the wetlands of the Cuttaburra Channels and Yantabulla Swamp. During flood it becomes home to 50,000 breeding water birds, and is one of the most important water bird sites in Australia.
Established: 2024
Area: 4,090 ha
Location: 130 km north west of Bourke
Traditional Custodians: Budjiti people
Nil Desperandum amplifies the connection between Naree Reserve, the Yantabulla Station partnership property and Yantabulla Swamp. It includes Cuttaburra Creek floodplain, extensive areas of ephemeral lignum swamp and mulga woodland.
Established: 2006
Area: 1,307 ha
Location: 75 km south of Canberra
Traditional Custodians: Ngambri and Ngarigo people
Scottsdale protects endangered grassy box gum woodlands and temperate grasslands. It's home to many native species and is one of the last intact ecosystems on the Murrumbidgee River (which wraps around its north and west flanks).
Established: 1999
Area: 738 ha
Location: 125 km west of Canberra
Traditional Custodians: Wiradjuri people
One of the best known intact examples of grassy white box woodlands, which were once part of a network covering 10 million hectares of south-eastern Australia. They're now highly fragmented and poorly protected.
