The WA deal was signed while Bush Heritage chief executive officer Rachel Lowry was on a whirlwind trip to Perth, where she met local Bush Heritage supporters and spoke to farmer group representatives.
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00:00Bush Heritage are looking for partnerships that help us deepen and double our impact by 2030.
00:05We've achieved so much through our reserves and through our Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander partnerships,
00:10but there is so much to be achieved through working with farmers.
00:15And that includes just getting a baseline assessment of what sort of biodiversity is on that farming property,
00:23working together on
00:24interventions that we can put in place that may increase productivity and bring about some wins for conservation.
00:32We've been testing and piloting a number of partnerships in the last two years
00:38and we're making some great gains. We've currently been able to support and influence outcomes over
00:4410 million hectares through our agricultural partnerships, and it's really starting to take off.
00:50So we're very much looking forward to building on that arm of how we help protect healthy country forever, because we simply
00:59cannot purchase every single property that requires
01:04the type of care to build connectivity into landscapes and ensure that
01:09we keep our precious species so that they can roam freely whilst also meeting the needs
01:16of a growing population.
01:18And what can farmers do to take part?
01:21Farmers can reach out to Bush Heritage Australia.
01:23If the idea of a partnership where we can learn together and walk together to find these win-wins for a healthy country
01:31resonates, we'd love to talk. We do prioritise partnerships in certain priority areas, which are on our website.
01:39But having said that, reach out at any time because there's often so much we can learn from each other.