For Newcastle trauma surgeon Zsolt J. Balogh, the operating theatre is where he’s spent years mending broken bodies with steady hands and a sharp focus.
Landholder Ken Rubeli describes his conservation agreement property, located next to Barrington Tops National Park, as a naturalist’s paradise, and it’s hard to disagree.
Barbara Lindsey and Jon Renn have been at Pub Hill Farm for almost a decade, living their personal conservation values through the preservation of habitat for both threatened species and ecological communities.
It’s been a wet start to the year across parts of western NSW, with floodwater continuing to flow south from major rainfall events in Queensland’s south-west and our state’s north.
Just off the Hawkesbury River, at Lower Portland, lies Blundell's Swamp, a rare surviving piece of a once-thriving network of upland lakes, coastal floodplains, and coastal wetlands.
When the chance to merge a passion for nature with enthusiasm for sharing his conservation journey came along, Pappinbarra landholder Jon van Beest seized the opportunity.
