Gondwana Link

11/10/2026

We look forward to being part of this Eco-Systems Activation Day organised by Commonland for this coming Friday, 16 October at Murdoch Uni. Come along and discover what it's about! We reckon hope and inspiration will be two outcomes. Hope to see you there.

🌱 ECO-SYSTEMS ACTIVATION DAY 🌱

What could happen if we brought together the people already creating change across Western Australia’s eco-systems and landscapes?

Join us on Friday 16 October | 10am–4pm at Murdoch University’s Boola Katitjin

A day to connect, explore, share, create and imagine what’s possible, hosted by Commonland’s network in Western Australia

🌱 Holistic landscape restoration
🎨 Eco-systems art
🗺️ Stakeholder mapping
🗣️ Dialogue circles
☕ World Café conversations
🔬 Citizen science
🎥 Stories & video
🌏 Nature walks
✍️ Visual scribing

…and more!

Think part exhibition + part creative action research + part living workshop.

Come for the day or just drop in for a while. Everyone connected to this work is welcome.

The day forms part of the Preparing the Ground gatherings for the Eco-Systems Innovation (ESI) Lab.

Free registration via the link in our bio 🎟️

Tag or share with someone who should be part of this conversation.

04/10/2026

Learning Truth Listening @ The Dream Out Loud Nowanup festival

This weekend Nowanup’s "Dream Out Loud" Festival happened on Noongar Goreng Boodja (country) northeast of Albany.

It was so special for nearly two hundred participants to be there with Uncles Eugene Eades,Koordah Cornwall, Gordon Grey, Simon Forrest, Aunty Carol Pettersen, other Elders and family members, and many Noongar and Wadjella musicians and creatives.

Wow, so much group participation in song, dance, yarning and learning Noongar, the language connecting us to this southwest land.

Gifts of sharing from Aunty Carol, Dylan Collard, Kelsi Forrest, Della Rae Morrison, the Moodtij Nop Dancers and Uncle Euye and Mixed Mob and more.

Uncle Simon Forrest, Curtin uni professor, introduced us to the concept of truth listening. Yes, WA can follow the lead of Victoria in its truth telling and Treaty building healing journey, addressing past injustices. For this, we all need to become good listeners.

Thanks to the great set up and support crew, with facilitation by Olly, and many Wadjella musicians including Bruce Anthony, Rhian Bethen, Lemon Myrtle and others with Yakaki Sound healing with Julian.

Healing country, healing people!

29/09/2026

We're proud not only of our role in helping transition Wilyun Pools Farm into Wirlomin custodianship, but also of helping pioneer a new approach to how philanthropic investment is used in Australia. To quote the article below, "That is what market-building looks like before it looks like a market: just a small group of people willing to do something unfamiliar because someone they trust has made it safe enough to try."
So, some big steps forward have been made through our collaboration with Transition Accelerator, Wollemi, Carbon Neutral, Wirlomin and the delightful former landowners Sylvia Leighton and Peter McKenzie. It's a few years on now, and it's all pretty much going to plan. More details in the comments.

Beneath the capital stack lies a more complex value stack. The question is, who will pay for that value and how much?

17/09/2026

Delighted and proud to be part of this gathering. Great energy there on the night, and lots of old friends. There is nothing more powerful and exciting than local communities making the changes we all need happen. But very concerning to hear from other groups how WA State Government support for landcare remains at a low point.

Thanks for a great night WA Landcare Network. Onwards together!

Sincere thanks to the Parliamentary Friends of Landcare for hosting a diverse array of amazing landcare groups at Parliament House on Tuesday evening. Selected through a lottery system, this year saw more than 60 representatives from across the state mixing with a number of politicians from across the political spectrum, who we sincerely thank for participating in so many conversations.

Special thanks to convenors Shane Love MLA and his team and the Hon Jess Beckerling MLC, for the effort that went into making the event such a success. WALN Deputy Chair Anne-Marie Offer delivered a speech that was so popular we have been asked to circulate it across the network - you can read it here.

https://www.landcarewa.org.au/parliamentary_friends_of_landcare_event_2026_waln_speech

Noongar Land Enterprise Group, SERCUL, Katanning Landcare, Leschenault Biosecurity Group, Wildflower Society of Western Australia Inc., Baldivis Children's Forest, Woodvale Waters Friends of Beenyup Channel Perth NRM, Armadale Gosnells Landcare Group, Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management Inc, GeoCatch, Urban Bushland Council WA Inc, Friends of Clontarf Hill WA, South West Natural Resource Management, Leschenault Catchment Council Green Skills Inc Landcare SJ Inc Bibbul Ngarma Aboriginal Association Track Care WA Inc Friends of Coolbinia Bushland Friends of Yellagonga Regional Park Friends Of Point Peron WA Forest Alliance Southern Forests Community Landcare Millennium Kids Inc Valley Verges Gondwana Link Friends of Galup 5 Rivers NRM Nature Reserves Preservation Group 'Bush Carers' Conservation Council of WA Mandurah Environment and Heritage Group Friends of the Shelley Rossmoyne Foreshore Friends of Inglewood Triangle F.A.W.N.A Inc. Friends of Meelup Regional Park Inc.

16/09/2026

Borongurup (the Porongurup Range) is an iconic and deeply revered feature of the Great Southern landscape of south-western WA. Join Aunty Lynette Knapp, Prof. Steve Hopper and Dr Ursula Rodrigues for a cuppa at the base of the range as they share Noongar and scientific perspectives on what makes this place so special. In Lynette's words, Borongurup is "the most prominent, sacred place on our Country".
Here's the story on our Heartland Journeys website: https://heartlandjourneys.com.au/stories/porongurup-borongurup/
Our thanks to the Southerly Magazine for publishing the story in its September issue. We love being able to share these stories with so many readers.

Borongurup (the Porongurup Range) is an iconic and much-revered feature of the Great Southern landscape. Sit down for a cuppa with Aunty Lynette Knapp, Prof ...

08/09/2026

There's a lot of good work across the Gondwana Link pathway that would qualify for a prize here! Go on - nominate; this is a good opportunity to get the extra recognition your group deserves.

Have you got a great restoration story to tell? 🌿 Now is the time to tell it!

Big project. Small project. Student research. Years of patient natural regeneration.

Great ecological restoration takes knowledge, persistence and care. And that work deserves recognition.

THE CLOSING DATE FOR THE 2026 SERA AWARDS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MONDAY 21S SEPTEMBER.

There are four awards, recognising large and small restoration projects, student research and outstanding natural regeneration work, with prizes of up to $1,500.

The photo tells one such story. Sue Currey, Jack Green and Ray Thompson are pictured with the 2021 Albert Morris Award, received by the Marra Creek Catchment Landholders for restoring nearly 40,000 hectares of overgrazed and denuded land to productive native pastures.

Your story might be on a very different scale. That doesn’t make it any less worth telling.

🌱 Get your application in by 21 September 2026:
https://chapter.ser.org/australasia/sera-awards/sera-awards-2026/

Know a project, practitioner, community or student whose work deserves recognition? Tag them or send them this post.


The Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia
Plant Conservation Australia
Australian Association of Bush Regenerators-AABR

07/09/2026

Ngoolak, Karrak - Keep the Black Cockatoos Flying
Exhibition Opening Denmark CRC Gallery 1030am this Saturday 12 Sept

A series of community art worshops, coordinated by Green Skills Inc., have produced some stunning art works to be shown in an exhibition launching 10.30am this Saturday, Sept 12 at the Denmark CRC's art gallery. Our aim is to bring attention and action in support of conserving our wonderful but endangered Black Cockatoos in WA's south west.

Four art workshops were run by renowned eco-fabric artist Jenny Wilson, of Denmark Kwoorabup with the guidance of Elder Aunty Carol Pettersen. 7 Noongar, and 12 Wadjella artists and 1 photographer have contributed 42 mixed media works for this travelling exhibition.

The resulting exhibition will travel to towns across the Great Southern over the coming year, highlighting the crises facing our critically endangered three Black Cockatoo species.

As part of NAIDOC, Green Skills has worked with artist Jenny Wilson to run a series of workshops involving both Noongar and Wadjella artists. Eco-dyeing with Black Cockatoo food plants has provided an innovative foundation for many of the works. It has been heartwarming to have the keen involvement of Aunty Carol Pettersen, Southern Aboriginal Corporation Rangers, and Noongar artists including Carmen Pickett.

The resulting exhibition will travel to towns across the Great Southern over the coming year, highlighting the crises facing our critcally endangered three Black Cockatoo species.

The first of these Art Exhibitions will run from 11- 23 September 2026 at the Denmark CRC Gallery, with the exhibition launch at 10.30am Saturday 12 September at that Gallery, featuring songs by Rhian Thomas and her wonderful Femmonics choir.

This NAIDOC Activity Arts program is delivered with support from the National Indigenous Australians Agency, as well as the Shire of Plantagenet, the Koorabup Trust, Green Skills, Southern Aboriginal Corporation,Femmonics and Denmark CRC.

06/09/2026

Goodonya Aunty Carol! Always great to hear your memories of the special place we live and work in - be it of the mallee, the heathlands, the coast, or those special grassy woodlands you remember so well. You bring an important reminder of how much the Country has changed in one lifetime.

Thanks for bringing this story together Astrid Volzke.

Menang elder Aunty Carol Petterson remembers when her family worked as shepherds, driving sheep through the bushland and along rivers towards the coast in southern Western Australia. Decades later, she recalls in vivid detail the natural abundance of the landscape.

26/08/2026

We are thrilled to have the newly minted DR Nicole Hodgson (R) working on our team, co-ordinating our very new State of the Link project – more to follow on that. Nic has helped us and worked with us in many ways over the years, including the development of the Heartland Journey’s website.
Pictured with Nicole is Prof Andrea Gaynor, one of her PhD supervisors and a wonderful Gondwana Link friend, too.

Congratulations Dr Nicole!!

13/08/2026

Tonight's event at UWA Albany is a wonderful opportunity to learn about peatlands in southwestern Australia. Register at the link below and come along at 5.30 pm (Thurs 13 Aug). See the link below to a recent peatland story, too.