Love of Bruny

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Bruny Island

Bruny Island is like an extraordinary portal into the ecological past of Australia.

I love living on Bruny Island.

Bruny has a huge diversity of ecotones. The ecotonal variation in such a small place is rare.

It has stretches of dry sclerophyll forest.

It has extraordinary remnant tracts of cool temperate rainforest.

Its coastline is incredible, with wide open ocean-facing beaches, with exquisite channel beaches. With rocky gulches and headlands.

James Bunker at Cloudy Bay — James Bunker scans the horizon at the Southern Ocean facing Cloudy Bay. Image: Phill Pullinger

Light through Clouds Bruny — Light through Clouds on Bruny, on one of its exquisite Channel beaches.

Bruny Island has a really incredible range of animal and plant species diversity.

It is just magical being here. Its like the last vestiges of how Australia would have been prior to modern development and its associated impacts on the ecology of Australia's landscapes.

Bruny Island's isolation has preserved and fostered endemism - plants and animals that are restricted to a region and can be found nowhere else on Earth.

Bruny Island has a small close-knit community with a great love of this place, the people here are wonderful.

Mountain Mist Bruny Island Warwick Berry — Mountain Mist through temperate rainforest, Mt Mangana. Image: Warwick Berry

Bruny Island has all of the aspects of intact ecology that mainland Australia doesn't have, and more. Its like a portal into a lost world.

Australian Fur Seals "Siesta" Bruny Island Warwick Berry — Australian Fur Seals "Siesta" Bruny Island. Image: Warwick Berry

James Bunker

independent researcher, BIEN

James Bunker is a conservationist and Vice President of the Bruny Island Environment Network.

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