Bullo River Station on the edge of the east Kimberley is a cattle station with its gaze firmly fixed on nature. Working with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, they are demonstrating conservation and pastoral activities can coexist.
There's been a longstanding notion in the north that pastoralists and conservationists are not a pairing you would have at a dinner party.It has always been a place for big dreamers and non-conventional visions, from the days when American fighter pilot Charlie Henderson took over, to his widow and famous author Sara Henderson and her daughters, to now.Both have a prominent West Australian pastoral lineage and a vision of running a station through a conservation lens.
"And the whole ethos of Bullo is to have equal consideration for both — when you do any sorts of decisions that you do, whether it's a conservation decision or it's a partial decision."The whole idea with Bullo is to consider both and not to degrade the country, to look after it, to make it better than it was, to have more biodiversity than when you found it.
"From my experience in the years of living up here, I think there always has been that sort of a division between conservation, pastoral," he said. "The first thing we did was work on reinstating ecologically appropriate fire regimes. And the changes from that have been enormous. "Most of the small mammals are still there, so those areas have a lot fewer feral cats, and so you get all these little rock rats and rock wallabies.
"There's families out there with only one or two stations, and they can't afford what we're doing," he said.
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