WLFL PROPERTIES
WLFL currently owns or is the sole trustee of five properties in Queensland. These are Bukkulla Conservation Park, Witta Nature Refuge, the Neil Holloway Reesville Nature Refuge, Weranga Scarps Nature Reserve, and Gowrie Scrub Conservation Reserve.
Bukkulla Conservation Park
The Bukkulla property is coastal central Queensland near the town of Marlborough, approximately 90 kilometres north-west of Rockhampton on the Bruce Highway.
Bukkulla Conservation Park covers 1813 hectares and abuts the Pine Mountain State Forest. Together, the state forest and the Conservation Park make an important contribution in this region where little of the area’s natural heritage is protected.
Witta Nature Refuge
Witta Conservation Reserve is located on the Maleny-Kenilworth Rd, Witta, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, South East Queensland. The total property area is 7.3 hectares. The reserve consists of a mosaic of remnant rainforest, rainforest regrowth areas, tall open forest and modified, neglected pasture areas. Nature conservation is the major land use. In the landscape context, the property lies on the northern edge of a larger tract of privately owned vegetation that extends south to Reesville. These properties collectively form part of the headwaters of Elaman Creek and support a regionally significant Koala population. The broader landscape is a mosaic of cleared pasture, remnant and regrowth forest areas.
Regional ecosystem (RE) mapping undertaken by the state government for the south-east.
Queensland bioregion classifies approximately two-thirds of the property as remnant vegetation. Five RE’s are mapped on the property, representing a significant diversity of forest types in a relatively small area. These are; 12.8.3, 12.12.1/16, 12.8.8, 12.12.12, 12.12.15a.
The Neil Holloway Reesville Nature Refuge
The Neil Holloway Reesville Nature Refuge is located off Watson Lane, Reesville, in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, South East Queensland. The total property area is 13.44 hectares and covers the junction of three small steep valleys carrying permanent streams that become the headwaters of Elamon Creek, a tributary of the Mary River.
The area supports a mosaic of predominantly closed forests with limited areas of tall to very tall open forests. Complex notophyll rainforest (Regional Ecosystem (RE) 12.8.3) is prevalent. This very distinctive forest is dominated by bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii), brush box (Lophostemon confertus) and blue quandong (Elaeocarpus grandis).
Weranga Scarps Nature Reserve – Now Australia’s first OECM Conserved Area!
Weranga Scarps Nature Reserve is located approximately 70 kilometres south-west of Dalby, in the Western Downs of Queensland. The land area is 48 hectares and of high biodiversity and conservation value. On 28 July 2025, Weranga Scarps was announced Australia’s first ever Conserved Area under the National OECM Framework – a real honour and a significant step for Australian conservation.
The area supports a complexity of vegetation communities and abundant wildlife, including the glossy black-cockatoo, yakka skink, golden-tailed gecko, and koala. Various eucalyptus and angophoras predominate the forests and woodlands along with shrubby and or grassy understoreys. Acacias and she-oaks are conspicuous in some ecosystems. Dense calytrix heathlands occur on ephemeral wet areas.
Gowrie Scrub Conservation Reserve
Gowrie Scrub Conservation Reserve is located just north-east of Gowrie Junction in the Toowoomba region of Queensland. The 42.49-hectare block lies within the Brigalow Belt Bioregion in the Eastern Darling Downs sub-bioregion, designated as essential habitat. The site has a high level of ecological significance due to this remnant brigalow vegetation and its value for the protection of the vulnerable flora species stream clematis (Clematis fawcettii), brush sophora (Sophora fraseri), and native thistle (Leuzea australis).
More than 90 species of birds have been observed on the property, which is also visited by the endangered koala and supports an assemblage of other small- to medium-sized mammals, including the pale field rat, northern bandicoot, squirrel glider, and several wallaby species.