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With a plan to own or manage one per cent of Australia by 2025, Bush Heritage Australia is an organisation with big ambitions. 

Started by Bob Brown in 1991, Bush Heritage Australia was born from an urgent mission: to protect pristine land from logging. After buying two blocks of land in Tasmania's Liffey Valley, Brown built a philanthropic, non-political organisation to help pay for them. As donations flowed in, Bush Heritage set its sights on acquiring ecologically important tracts of land across the country, repairing environmental degradation and bringing native plants and wildlife back to health. 

Twenty-five years later, with more than 1,000,000 hectares in its care, Bush Heritage's achievements are celebrated in this book along with its growth from humble beginnings into a large non-profit with benefactors all over the world. Central to this story are the ecologists, researchers, land managers, local Indigenous groups, staff, donors and a brigade of volunteers who have helped the organisation to thrive.

About the Author

Sarah Martin is the author of Davis McCaughey: A Life (2012), children's picture book A Galapagos Day (2016), and When is Forever? A Quirky Tale of Family Life (2016). Sarah's research for this book has taken her to Bush Heritage properties in many remote parts of Australia.