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Our nature reserves and partnerships in Western Australia help protect over 4.1 million hectares. Work is focused on the Fitz-Stirling region in the south-west, the mid-west and conservation partnerships with Aboriginal groups in the north.
On this page:
South-west: Beringa | Chereninup | Dodgey Downs | Ediegarrup | Kojonup | Monjebup | Red Moort
Mid-west: Charles Darwin | Eurardy | Hamelin
Northern Aboriginal partnerships: Birriliburu | Bunuba | Karajarri | Wunambal Gaambera
Established: 2007
Area: 1,147 ha
Location: 380km south east of Perth
Traditional Custodians: Goreng Noongar people
Beringa plays a critical role in protecting mallet and moort woodlands, which are vulnerable to frequent fires. It also protects some of the most important intact riparian (creekside) land in the region.
Established: 2002
Area: 889 ha
Location: 430km south east of Perth
Traditional Custodians: Goreng Noongar people
Part of a vital habitat link between the Fitzgerald River and Stirling Range national parks. Three woodland types almost eliminated from the WA wheat belt region are protected: york gum, flat-topped yate and granite sheoak.
Established: 2024
Area: 762 ha
Location: 430km south east of Perth
Traditional Custodians: Goreng Noongar people
Provides connection between our Red Moort and Monjebup Reserves. Once we restore habitat on this property, together these reserves will provide nearly 4,000 hectares of connected bushland in a globally significant biodiversity hotspot.
Established: 2022
Area: 1,067 ha
Location: 430km south east of Perth
Traditional Custodians: Goreng Noongar people
Alongside Red Moort Reserve, nearby Corackerup Creek and partner Chingarrup Sanctuary, Ediegarrup contributes to a conservation corridor and provides critical habitat for Malleefowl, Tammar and Black-gloved Wallabies, and nationally threatened Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos.
Established: 1996
Area: 392 ha
Location: 270km south east of Perth
Traditional Custodians: Goreng Noongar people
The largest protected area of wandoo woodlands in the region, it shows us what this country was like before the destructive policies of the 1960s, when a million acres of WA bushland a year was burned, buried and bulldozed for broad-acre farming.
Established: 2007
Area: 2,891 ha
Location: 430km south east of Perth
Traditional Custodians: Goreng Noongar people
The Monjebup and Monjebup North reserves protect a significant patch of bushland that’s critical to restoring and relinking the landscape between the Stirling Range and Fitzgerald River national parks.
Established: 2014
Area: 1,037 ha
Location: 430km south east of Perth
Traditional Custodians: Goreng Noongar people
Protects some of the area’s most at‑risk plant communities including mallee heath and yate woodlands. Home, also, to the Michael Tichbon Field Station – our headquarters in the region.
Established: 2003
Area: 67,975 ha
Location: 355km north east of Perth
Traditional Custodians: Badimia People
Named in honour of the great naturalist, this reserve lies on the northern edge of the WA wheat belt and extends into the more arid Eremaean Province to the north, falling largely within the Southwest Botanical Province – an internationally recognised biodiversity ‘hotspot’.
Established: 2005
Area: 29,943 ha
Location: 145km north of Geraldton
Traditional Custodians: Nanda people
Land clearing and the spread of salinity have devastated much of this region, making the remaining bushland on Eurardy exceptionally important for species such as the nationally vulnerable Malleefowl.
Established: 2011
Area: 300,000 ha
Location: 500km SE of of Port Headland
Traditional Custodians: Martu people
The Birriliburu Indigenous Protected Area covers 6.6 million hectares in the Little Sandy and Gibson Deserts – roughly the size as Tasmania. The Traditional Custodians are the Martu people who’ve established a ranger program.
Established: 2018
Partnership area: 2.1 million ha
Location: 190km south of Broome
Traditional Custodians: Karajarri people
Known as the gateway to the Kimberley, Karajarri Country comprises Jurarr (coastal country), and Pirra (inland country) including red dunes of the Great Sandy Desert. Supporting more Karajarri women to work on country is the main focus of our partnership.
Established: 2011
Area: 759,806 ha
Location: 600km north east of Derby
Traditional Custodians: Wunambal Gaambera
The land and waters of the Wunambal Gaambera people cover an incredible 2.5 million hectares of white sandy beaches, rocky escarpments and rugged gorges. We’ve helped create a Healthy Country Plan and worked on the ground with Traditional Custodians and rangers.