See how Tasmania is restoring its ecosystem

Boarding a light plane from the Tasmanian mainland, it's an unusual commute to work for palawa man, Andry Sculthorpe.

He's part of an ecosystem restoration project on a remote 8000-hectare island in the Bass Strait.

"This is lungtalanana; it was part of the country of our ancestors but two hundred years ago when white people started to come to these islands they really took a lot away from these places, so there was lots of exploitation of whales, seals, they set up farming on the islands, the islands are small and those small island ecosystems are also quite fragile."