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Back to the Bush Indigenous Corporation ICN10152

Community | Volunteering | Response | Environment | Conservation | Culture | Sustainability

Back to the Bush Indigenous Corporation is a registered Indigenous environmental charity directed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons.
Our vision is advocate and actively nurture a return to endemic biospheres – healthy landscapes depend on living knowledge, active care, and people working with the bush.

Back to the Bush Indigenous Corporation and the Sacred Sites Preservation Project are the social, cultural and environmental charities of the Treaty Council Worldwide Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Corporation (ICN-9045). 

Our volunteers are the authorised ambassadors and environmental rangers of the Treaty Council’s mission. We work with the Treaty Council to unite and support environmental stewardship between grassroots (tribal) Aboriginal nations and clans across the continent. Our directors co-direct and advise both organisations.
The Treaty Council have real solutions to close the gap and break the wheel through economic sovereignty and independence.
Apical elders and tribes of several nations across Australia recognise our environmental rangers.

Back to the Bush Indigenous Corporation
ICN 10152

The charity fosters every aspect of our commitment to advance the environment –  preserve our natural heritage and to educate Australians on the importance of aboriginal land management.
For tens of thousands of years, Indigenous people managed this continent with fire, ceremony, and custodianship that kept ecosystems in balance. Today, that responsibility is shared. Generational farmers, graziers, foresters, and even frontline public servants who know the bush all contribute to stewardship. Together, they form a community of care that is too often overlooked in the environmental debate.
We champion sustainable prescriptions by private managers and agriculture, perpetuating endemic fire regimes to restore balance and harmony to Australia’s diverse biospheres. 
Additionally, the charity’s mission is to bridge the gap and bring voices forward, restore balance to Country, and highlight solutions that work. From cultural burning and regenerative land practices, to reforming outdated approaches that allow landscapes to decline, we advance the environment by showing how care and culture must go hand in hand.
‘Back to the Bush’ actively focuses on responding to the needs of the community and country, raising grass-roots awareness of Australia’s diverse environments and advancing the environment including conservation of the land, bush culture (traditional management) and heritage. Other ancillary aspects of the organisation’s scope include but are not limited to: advocacy of grass-roots issues outside of the metropolitan bubble; the spirit of volunteering and community philanthropy in environmental works; working with grassroots indigenous communities to continue culture via environmental outcomes, advancing Australia’s diverse environments, and actively assisting communities impacted by natural disasters where local environments are at risk of destruction or contamination.
Earth’s most ecologically unique and diverse environments are found on the continent of Australia. For this reason, it is imperative that every Australian profoundly upholds the core principles of conservation.
With the mandate and blessings of current and emerging elders across several nations and clans, we are the recognised rangers on Country. 
We’re closely observing the recovery of the environment, monitoring prescriptions and advancing the interests of local aboriginal mobs and their right to manage the land and country. We are their eyes, ears and spiritual barometer on Country.

Most of our private & independent 'wilderness' surveys are conducted by foot in the backcountry and from the air over sacred lands and rivers, with the oversight of local tribal elders.

Back to the Bush
My commitment is to fight for and defend Australia’s environment and the extraordinary life forces within our diverse living biospheres for future generations. 
Every Australian must champion the core values of conservation to preserve our unique natural assets for future generations. Because once they’re gone, they’re gone forever.
Director of the Treaty Council & Back to the Bush, Alex Wymarra, in the NSW Blue Mountains
Conservation has no colour, it is colour blind. 

Very few people are profoundly connected to the environment as we are, and fewer would risk their life for it. Our very ethos is on display through our actions, content, history and reports. If in doubt, we encourage you to reach out to respected indigenous Australians we closely work with. Only they have the ultimate power and ability to judge one’s spiritual connection with the land.