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across the Gondwana Link

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Gondwana Link invites you on a journey through some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth: from tall forests, slender-stemmed mallee and wildflower-rich heath to the world’s largest temperate woodland.

Heartland Journeys can help connect you to part of the world’s oldest continuous culture and deepen your understanding and experience of these living landscapes.

Explore their intricacies and richness: tiny honey possums as pollinators; malleefowl that incubate their eggs in nesting mounds of compost; an incredible variety of plants; and inspiring community successes in restoring ecological health.

Feature Story  |  September 2026

Averil Dean in photo with her Noongar brothers, sisters and cousins heading to school in Tambellup. All standing in front of school bus.

Porongurup Science and Cultural Knowledge Combines

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, Stephen Hopper and Dr Ursula Rodrigues at the base of the range., as they share Noongar and scientific perspectives on what makes this landscape so special. In Lynette’s words: “the most prominent, sacred place on our Country is ‘Borongurup”.

Porongurup science and cultural knowledge combines | Heartland Journeys

The story is also available in the September 2026 edition of the Southerly Magazine, which is distributed in Albany and the Great Southern region, Ravensthorpe and Walpole.

 

Image: Amanda Keesing (cropped from a landscape photo).
Headshot of Ezzard Flowers, Goreng Elder
Headshot of Sylvia Leighton amongst paperbarks
Headshot of Pierre Horwitz

Connect with the people and stories across the Gondwana Link:

Delve into stories about this land’s ancient origins, its immense biological richness, and the First Nations peoples, community groups, individuals and scientists who care for it. Watch, listen to and read these stories.

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