How Joshua Gilbert's Initiative is Sustainably Restoring Aussie Land

Joshua Gilbert was a joint winner of the 2022 NSW Sustainability Awards for young changemakers.

Aussie Ark is returning the East coast of Australia back to its pre-European settlement glory, by effectively managing threats such as introduced feral predators, noxious weeds, fire and rewilding Australia’s most endangered species.

Aussie Ark's Barrington Wildlife Sanctuary has been a labour of love of many years. That culminated with the official first release of wildlife in early 2020 and an official opening event in November 2020 (post covid).

The Barrington Wildlife Sanctuary has now become a wildlife hub, that has seen the return of Tasmanian devils to a wild landscape on mainland Australia for the first time in 3,000 years and the return of Eastern Quolls to the Barrington Tops for the first time in more than 50 years.

The organisation's value lies in their unique ability to develop wildlife refuges, and combine their endangered wildlife 'insurance population' development to stock and augment the habitat as it would have been some 200 years ago.