Brett Vercoe is the owner of Narlu, a property situated in Upper Orana, New South Wales. The property is currently a wildlife sanctuary with the owners undertaking forest regeneration on the land with a nursery and seedbank featuring historical plant diversity collected locally. The land has been previously used as an ex-dairy holding with few trees remaining when purchased in 2020. Since then, the owners have planted more than 37,000 trees across the property. Future plans for Narlu are to protect the property from increasing pressure of logging on private property as commercial State Forest access declines. The property is also part of the Land for Wildlife conservation program.
Narlu spans 30 hectares across Dry sclerophyll, Wet sclerophyll including Northern Turpentine-Brush Box Wet Forest, Mid North Lowland Flooded Gum-Palm Wet Forest, Northern Escarpment Brush Box-Tallowwood-Maple Wet Forest as well as Lowland subtropical rainforest on floodplain.
The property features native fauna including diverse birdlife, wallabies, possums, bandicoots, reptiles, echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus), platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), giant barred frog (Mixophyes iteratus) and eastern freshwater cod (Maccullochella ikei) and nine species of bats recorded.
