Restoring Australia's Botanic Wonderland
Gondwana Link is a visionary effort to reconnect and restore a 1,000-kilometer swath of native bush land from the desert edge of Australia’s Outback to the tall-tree forests of the Southwestern coast.
August 22, 2006
Smooth, white-barked eucalyptus trees rise from ochre soil, topped by umbrellas of brassy-olive leaves. Silvery saltbush hugs the ground, sheltering goanna lizards. The hot white surface of a dry salt lake glistens in the distance. The screech of black cockatoos draws attention skyward, summoning visions of pterodactyls soaring overhead.
This 3-billion-year-old landscape in southwestern Australia has over the past 250 million years gone largely undisturbed by catastrophic events such as volcanoes, earthquakes and glaciers. It is flat, infertile, leached of nutrients and laden with salt. The result, bewilderingly, is a botanic wonderland.
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Find other cool features, like the photo essays and postcards from the field about aboriginal noongar women on the Gondwana Link website.
For More Information:
- Where We Work: The Nature Conservancy in Australia
The Conservancy is exchanging skills and expertise with Australian conservation organizations in the hopes of making a significant difference in a country that still has so much natural heritage to preserve.
- How We Work: Nature Conservancy Partnerships
The Nature Conservancy pursues non-confrontational, pragmatic, market-based solutions to conservation challenges. This makes it essential for us to work collaboratively with partners – communities, businesses, government agencies, multilateral institutions, individuals and other non-profit organizations.
- Postcards From the Field: Gondwana Link
Working with Aboriginal Noongar Women to Restore the Pallinup River
- Archive of our Saves of the Week and Success Stories
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