A former cattleman is now at the forefront of conservation efforts in remote Cape York.

Graham Woods spent decades as a stockman and rodeo rider in western Queensland.

He was happily enjoying his retirement sailing the Whitsundays, when he packed up and moved north to manage the Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Piccaninny Plains Wildlife Sanctuary.

So what would prompt a man to do that? In Graham’s case, it was a woman.

“My partner came to me one day and asked if I’d follow her if she got a job up on Cape York,” he said.

“I thought ‘A girl from Sydney up on a property on Cape York, yeah, that’s probably not gonna happen’ so I said ‘Yeah love, I’ll be in that’, thinking I’d be safe.

“She put in my resume along with hers and we got the job.”

The quintessential bushy and his partner, Sally Gray, are now the sole occupants of the remote 170,000 hectare property.

“I just look at the way the world is now and where we live, and we don’t have to worry about what’s going on outside the boundary.

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ABC News