Read a letter from program director Michael Looker in Australia to see how your support is making a difference in Gondwana Link and the Great Western Woodlands.

The Nature Conservancy is working with Aboriginal people to protect key landscapes in Australia — to protect nature and local Aboriginal communities that seek to reconnect with their ancestral lands.

Gondwana Link holds significant spiritual meaning for Aboriginal peoples like the Noongar, who have lived here for thousands of years. Read about the Conservancy’s collaboration with traditional owners to preserve both the cultural and natural legacy of this landscape in this essay by Elder Averil Dean.

More than 5 million acres in Australia have been saved with the establishment of two protected areas. The Warddeken and Djelk Indigenous Protected Areas are more than twice the size of Yellowstone National Park and include sandstone gorges, pristine rivers, tropical savanna, coastal wetlands and ancient rock art paintings.

Every spring, the landscape of southwestern Australia comes alive with brightly-colored and sometimes bizarre-looking wildflowers. Read about The Nature Conservancy's work to restore this botanic wonderland in the Nature Conservancy magazine article, "Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom." Also, view a photo slide show of Gondwana Link's flora.

The landscape of Gondwana Link seems to go on forever. Here, low-lying bush rolls to reflective pools of water and open fields. Kangaroos are abundant in this region of Australia, but it is nearly impossible to see them during the day as they take shelter in the dense vegetation from the hot sun.