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    <title>Qualla: Eurardy Reserve</title>
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      <title>Eurardy Reserve: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo credit Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Count the flowers and you start to understand the place. Almost seven hundred plant species grow on this single tract of red-soil bush in the Mid West of Western Australia — more diversity in one old grazing run than many countries can claim across their entire territory. Eurardy Reserve covers just over 30,000 hectares on the northern doorstep of the South West Botanical Province, a corner of the world so floristically rich it outranks Australia's tropical rainforests. In spring, the ground answers back in colour.]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photo credit Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Count the flowers and you start to understand the place. Almost seven hundred plant species grow on this single tract of red-soil bush in the Mid West of Western Australia — more diversity in one old grazing run than many countries can claim across their entire territory. Eurardy Reserve covers just over 30,000 hectares on the northern doorstep of the South West Botanical Province, a corner of the world so floristically rich it outranks Australia's tropical rainforests. In spring, the ground answers back in colour.</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://qualla.com/eurardy-reserve/">Eurardy Reserve on Qualla</a></p><p><em>Image: Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia | Public domain</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Eurardy Reserve: On the Edge of a Hotspot</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo credit Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Geography did Eurardy a strange favour. The reserve sits at the very northern edge of the South West Botanical Province, one of only a handful of internationally recognised biodiversity hotspots on the planet, and it adjoins the gorges and heath of Kalbarri National Park. This is...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photo credit Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Geography did Eurardy a strange favour. The reserve sits at the very northern edge of the South West Botanical Province, one of only a handful of internationally recognised biodiversity hotspots on the planet, and it adjoins the gorges and heath of Kalbarri National Park. This is...</p>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Eurardy Reserve: The Spring Reckoning</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo credit Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia, Public domain. For most of the year Eurardy keeps its secret. Then the winter rains come, and through late winter and spring the reserve detonates into one of Western Australia's celebrated wildflower displays, the kind that draws people from across the world to a state where the blooming is a ...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photo credit Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia, Public domain. For most of the year Eurardy keeps its secret. Then the winter rains come, and through late winter and spring the reserve detonates into one of Western Australia's celebrated wildflower displays, the kind that draws people from across the world to a state where the blooming is a ...</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://qualla.com/eurardy-reserve/">Eurardy Reserve on Qualla</a></p><p><em>Image: Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia | Public domain</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Eurardy Reserve: Bringing the Country Back</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo credit Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Eurardy was a pastoral lease before Bush Heritage Australia bought it in 2005, and grazing leaves marks that flowers alone cannot erase. Across the reserve are paddocks that were cleared decades ago and never fully recovered. So the work here is not only protection but repair. Pa...]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photo credit Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Eurardy was a pastoral lease before Bush Heritage Australia bought it in 2005, and grazing leaves marks that flowers alone cannot erase. Across the reserve are paddocks that were cleared decades ago and never fully recovered. So the work here is not only protection but repair. Pa...</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://qualla.com/eurardy-reserve/">Eurardy Reserve on Qualla</a></p><p><em>Image: Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia | Public domain</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Eurardy Reserve: Ghosts in the Scrub</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Photo credit Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The reserve's animal roll-call is a record of loss and tentative hope. Mammals that once lived here — the numbat with its striped back, the long-eared bilby, the burrowing bettong, the western barred bandicoot, the cat-sized chuditch — vanished from the property, swept away by fo...]]></description>
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<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://qualla.com/eurardy-reserve/">Eurardy Reserve on Qualla</a></p><p><em>Image: Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia | Public domain</em></p>]]></content:encoded>
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