Murdoch University researchers, hundreds of ‘Turtle Tracking’ citizen scientists, local councils, the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, and many other partners have joined forces to play a crucial role in helping to protect the southwestern snake-necked turtle from becoming endangered.

Walpole–Nornalup National Park is 430 kilometres south of Perth, surrounding the town of Walpole on Western Australia’s south coast. An iconic area in the Walpole Wilderness, it is renowned for its forest of rare red tingle trees, known as the Valley of the Giants. These ‘giants’, the most massive of all eucalypts and unique to the Walpole area, can be seen from the breathtaking heights of the Tree Top Walk.

Always keen to try something new, Conor Doherty recruited a trusty friend and headed off on a sunny autumn morning to Orienteering WA’s second bush event of the 2023 season: Spice Brook.

Careful observers of the Australian bush may have noticed that, following fires, there are often more plant species present in the live vegetation than there were beforehand. Some of these newly appeared species recruit from seeds stored in the soil and can initially be abundant, yet disappear after a few years, only to reappear later after another fire. These species are known as fire ephemerals.

The new, 108-metre span suspension bridge across the Murray River at Dwaarlindjirraap, within Lane Poole Reserve, was a major component of the $8.4 million Dwellingup Adventure Trails project.

The chuditch, also known as the western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii), was once found across 70 per cent of the Australian continent—from Western Australia across to Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Today, the distribution of wild chuditch is just five per cent of its former range; restricted only to the south-west of Western Australia.

Western Australia’s south coast is stunningly beautiful, near-pristine and inspiring. With its expanses of white beaches, windswept headlands and waters teeming with marine life, the area makes a lasting impact on those who experience it.

Andrew Paul has been leading Mount Lawley Senior High School’s Bush Rangers WA cadet unit since 1998, and his passion and excitement to explore, share and protect the beauty of Western Australia with his students has not waned in 25 years.

The towering rocky domes of the Bungle Bungle Range in Purnululu National Park have enchanted humans with their majestic beauty for tens of thousands of years.

Bardi, Jawi, Mayala and Dambeemangarddee people and the State Government have come together to declare three new marine parks in the Kimberley’s Buccaneer Archipelago. The parks are jointly vested in and managed by their Traditional Owners, who have partnered in their creation.