The Cumberland Plain is full of many rare and threatened species, but the Nodding Geebung, or Persoonia nutans must be one of the most fascinating. Classified as Endangered at both the State and Federal level, this delicate and rare shrub occurs exclusively within a 40 square kilometre region of the Critically Endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland. […]
Local and visiting volunteers have all pitched in to build habitat for the endangered purple copper butterfly in Sunny Corner State Forest on the western side of the Blue Mountains in NSW. One of the rarest butterflies in Australia, the purple copper butterfly feeds on one rare species of plant (Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla), in a very […]
Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) has recently been awarded an Australian Government 20 Million Trees project to revegetate 3 ha of Koala Habitat and Lowland Rainforest adjacent to the Wilson’s River near Lismore, NSW and regenerate an additional 2.2 ha through weed control activities. CVA is partnering with landholders and community volunteers in the Lismore area […]
These past few months, we have had our crews out working with the Save the Tasmanian Devil team, undertaking devil habitat improvements and camera trap monitoring on the Tasman Peninsula. The captive bred devil release site is located in southern Tasmania and is playing a vital role in providing a safe haven for facial tumour free […]
Conservation Volunteers Australia in partnership with the NSW Government has been working on the conservation of the koala population from Campbelltown to the Southern Highlands. The community have contributed to collecting information through koala surveys and tracking, and also improved more than 10 hectares of bushland in the region. Koalas in the Wollondilly Shire are […]
