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Protecting nature together

Table of Contents

Message from Jan Ferguson OAM, Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Challenge: Losing nature, our life support system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Solution: Evidence-based protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Nature Foundation’s approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Our Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Nature Foundation in action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Our Story: Leadership in saving, protecting and restoring landscapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Our People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Our Plan: Creating a Nature Positive future, together

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Our Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Investment in nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 How to contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Our Commitment to You and to Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Glossary Natural Capital: The stock of natural resources that people, communities and the environment use to live and thrive: soil, water, mineral resources, living organisms, biodiversity, ecosystems, etc.

Invasive Species: Species verified as non-native to a country are assessed for evidence of impact and may be further designated as ‘invasive’.

Nature Positive: A world where nature — species and ecosystems — is being restored and is regenerating rather than declining.

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Nature Foundation

Protecting nature together Nature is critical for human survival and wellbeing. And right now, in Australia, we face significant habitat loss, extinction of terrestrial species and the compounding impact of climate change in devastating measures.

Nature Foundation has a proud history of over 40 years of contributing evidence-based conservation work to the South Australian landscape and now we seek to create a positive impact on the environment across the country.

We use science-led solutions and work to address the gaping needs to restore and protect natural capital, where our efforts can change the outcome. Already we have seen what can be achieved, however there is much to do.

Our focus is to reach the highest quality outcomes for biodiversity conservation where we can make an enduring impact.

You are invited to join with us. Together, we will protect, restore and save Australia’s landscapes for future generations.

Jan Ferguson OAM Chair, Nature Foundation

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Australia’s natural environment is interwoven with our survival, wellbeing and economic prosperity.

It is the source of our food, water, air, climate regulation, raw materials, cultural connection and recreation.

Yet, our natural habitats are facing a crisis.

In a rapidly changing climate, with declining biodiversity, our environment is deteriorating.

The impacts of this affects us all.

Conserving nature is critical to the health of human populations.

Nature Foundation provides science-led solutions quietly tackling these biodiversity challenges in South Australia and beyond.

Our over 40-year story of community led engagement, evidence-based action, addressing knowledge gaps, developing career pathways for Aboriginal Australians, saving native species and protecting habitats is not that well known.

For us, what is important is that we measure, monitor and do the prioritised vital work that has a positive impact on nature, today, tomorrow and forever.

In line with the Australian government’s target to protect and conserve 30 per cent of our land by 2030, Nature Foundation’s vision is to realise a future where biodiversity is secure, and our life support system is enduring.

And our goal is to apply this best practice, science-led action to one million hectares by 2030, a doubling of our footprint.

You can be part of the planned approach to protecting nature, now and always.

Witchelina Nature Reserve by Alex Nankivell

Act today. For our tomorrow.

Protecting nature together.

Today.

Tomorrow.

Forever.

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Critical issues…

62 Australian terrestrial species extinct.

Over 7.7 million hectares of land habitat cleared in last 17 years compounding habitat loss.

Over 1,250 or 8 in 10 nationally listed threatened species remain at risk from invasive species impacts.

…need urgent solutions Best practice, science-led action on one million hectares of protected biodiverse habitat by 2030.

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The Challenge

Losing nature, our life support system Biodiversity loss Climate change, habitat loss and degradation, and invasive species are the key threats to Australia’s biodiversity.1 Our land is constantly changing in response to both natural processes and human activities. In many cases, the impacts of climate change on biodiversity are exacerbated by other pressures such as land clearing and invasive species, but in some cases, impacts can be unequivocally attributed to climate change.2 With over 7.7 million hectares of terrestrial habitat cleared in Australia between 2000 and 2017, habitat loss has already caused the extinction of 62 Australian terrestrial species.3 Since 2000, 1390 (85%) of terrestrial threatened species have experienced some habitat loss.

Native species disappearing forever Whilst habitat loss has a direct impact of the survival of native species, a greater and ever-growing threat prevails as the most lethal. Invasive species are consistently identified as the most prevalent threat to Australian fauna and are a primary cause of extinction.4 Australia has the highest mammalian extinction rate in the world. In 2024 number of Australian animals, plants and unique ecological communities officially recognised as being in danger of extinction rose to 2,142.

There were 42 new additions to the national list of threatened species, including 21 animals, 20 plants and one threatened ecological community — the King Island scrub complex.

Each species has been given one of the three highest ratings on the threatened status scale (vulnerable, endangered or, the most precarious rating, critically endangered).5 Over 1,250 or 8 in 10 nationally listed threatened species remain at risk from invasive species impacts 7, with many particularly vulnerable as they recover from the bushfires and drought given that weeds and pests are quicker to take advantage of good conditions. The current surge in weeds, rabbits8, and feral pigs — soon to be followed by foxes and feral cats — is a case in point and puts threatened species at heightened risk.

Just four invasive species — feral goats, feral cats, feral pigs and root rot fungus — endanger more than 100 threatened species.9 Cats and foxes alone have killed off 22 native mammals across central Australia.10 And alarmingly, over 1.5 billion native animals are killed each year by feral cats.11

Knowledge gaps Our understanding of the state and trend of terrestrial threatened species in Australia has increased significantly since 2016, including our focus on knowledge gaps. However, biodiversity overall is not monitored extensively in Australia, and we cannot assess the state and trend of most species across the nation with confidence.

Essentially, many aspects of our environment are under-resourced in terms of routine inventory and condition monitoring.

Nature Foundation values the routine monitoring of vegetation cover for its reserves. In addition to this work,

Nature Foundation has more recently been contracted

by GreenCollar, Australia’s largest environmental markets investor and project developer, to utilise its expertise for delivering greenhouse gas accounting projects, applying its science-led expertise on land-based projects.

The State of the Environment Report 2021 acknowledges the key deficit of accessing experts is an ongoing concern across many areas of environmental management and research.

Nature Foundation has incrementally tackled this issue, investing in the development of scientific and cultural expertise to improve outcomes through scholarships and support for early career scientists, Honours, Masters and PhD students and specific research projects.

Aboriginal knowledge and engagement Aboriginal knowledge of Country and management practices provide a valuable approach for caring for the environment for all Australians and it is delivering good results14. However, there is much more to be done to enable Aboriginal people to apply their knowledge, manage their Country and exercise their rights of self-determination, which can help restore the Australian environment.

While Aboriginal stewardship is widely recognised in national and international laws, including in the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act), the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, practical application is still marginalised in mainstream environmental management.

Economic impact The management of invasive species is clearly a significant economic burden in Australia.12 Reports estimate that since the 1960s, Australia has spent or incurred losses totalling at least $389 billion (2017 value) from invasive species.13 Invasive plant control is estimated to impose an overall average annual cost of nearly $5 billion across Australia, with control in agricultural areas accounting for most costs. Around $300 million in public expenditure is estimated across national parks and Aboriginal lands, and on weed research.

The return on investment for reducing invasive species and minimising their impact is significant.

Biodiversity is declining so fast despite the fact more and more people are concerned about it.”

Professor Hugh Possingham

Nature Foundation seeks to expand, enhance and empower Aboriginal Australians to bring their cultural knowledge and practices to land management.

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The Solution

Evidence-based protection Nature Foundation’s vision is to respond to the urgency of realising a nature positive future where biodiversity is secure, and our lifesupport system is thriving forever.

Nature Foundation recognises and has proven that implementing conservation projects designed to bring biodiversity benefits to targeted reserves, will improve and protect a broad cross-section of natural environment.

We see a pathway to protection and have a longterm approach.

The people who are showing success are the not-for-profits who do more intensive land management, and that's what we need to invest in more.”

In summary: •

Professor Hugh Possingham

The Problem: Land with high biodiversity value throughout Australia is facing degradation which has a profound impact on the health and well-being of ecosystems, native species and humans.

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Our Vision: Increasing areas of habitat that are conserved and enhanced for future generations.

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Our Goal: Double the footprint of protected land to 1 million hectares by 2030 to create more critical refuges for habitats and wildlife to thrive, in support of Australia›s commitment to 30 per cent of land and sea protected by 2030.

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Our Strategy: Identify habitats with high biodiversity value using evidence based environmental assessment, anticipate change, plan, purchase the land and deliver the long process of ecosystem recovery in these prioritised areas, and bring the rewards of landscape resilience, sustainability and wellbeing.

Together we face an expansive and complex problem, critical for our future.

Priority areas protected Research worldwide demonstrates that effective, protected area management has positive outcomes for biodiversity, safeguarding it for future generations.

Protected areas are becoming vital refuges for threatened species and ecosystems in the face of habitat destruction, fragmentation, modification and climate change.

All threatened species and natural environments are important; however, Nature Foundation’s approach to focus on prioritised nature reserves helps target effort and resources so that tangible outcomes can be achieved, measured and shared.

Our work has been successful in seven nature reserves throughout South Australia. Whilst there is more to do in the state, we are poised to deliver our holistic model of protection and conservation in other prioritised reserves across Australia, where we can create best practice biodiversity outcomes and habitats for native flora and fauna to thrive.

Science-led We know nature-based, science led solutions must increasingly become embedded in land management to support recovery from extreme events, and to build resilience of local communities through their farms, forests, reserves and Aboriginal lands.

Eyrean Earless Dragon at Witchelina Nature Reserve by Alex Nankivell

Nature Foundation has the evidence, expertise and experience to solve it in identified land reserves.

Nature Foundation’s approach

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Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

Aboriginal pathways Nature Foundation facilitates opportunities for Aboriginal individuals and communities to reinvigorate connection to land and reinstate cultural land management, offering potential to realise career pathways. Our Kids on Country™ Junior Ranger Program is a youth engagement program for Aboriginal High School students aged 14-19, that inspires future careers in conservation and land management, strengthens cultural learning and wellbeing, and supports ongoing engagement in education. Kids on Country camps have a culture-first approach, where participants are afforded the opportunity to grow under the mentorship of senior Aboriginal people, whilst engaging in practical on-country studies in conservation and land management.

Long term approach Effective species-led and ecosystem-based invasive species management strategies and implementation plans are key to effective biodiversity conservation.17 For many species, recovery is complex and needs a long-term approach.

Community engagement and collaboration Our approach is to help ensure nature is better understood and valued through facilitating community engagement to support resilient habitats. Nature Foundation works to involve more people, partners and communities in nature conservation through education, volunteering and on country experiences.

Carbon sequestration and field services

Our Impact Nature Foundation’s conservation work is vital to sustainably manage Australia’s unique landscapes, flora and fauna. Outcomes to date include: •

1.15 million hectares is the total area of land we have helped protect.

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500,000+ hectares are the combined land area of our nine nature reserves: Witchelina, Hiltaba, Tiliqua, Watchalunga, Para Woodlands, Murbpook Lagoon, Mongolurring, Bullock Bridge and Geegeela Nature Reserve.

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Populations of key threatened species under management are experiencing growth including Yellowfooted Rock-wallaby, Plains Mouse and Thick-billed Grasswren through reduction in threatening processes and good seasonal conditions.

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Habitat for 22 nationally threatened fauna species protected and actively managed.

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503 young Aboriginal people have participated in our Kids on Country program.

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459 grants to the value of more than $1.9 million have been awarded to university students, researchers and community organisation to support nature science research.

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24 properties have been acquired with our assistance and gifted to the State Government or land managers to become part of the National Parks and National Reserve System to support at-risk species and habitats.

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2,000+ volunteer hours per year supporting in our office and on our reserves.

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7,000+ supporters help us make the impact we do.

Continuing our conservation efforts, Nature Foundation has sequestered a significant amount of carbon in native vegetation regeneration and regrowth as part of the Hiltaba Human Induced Regeneration Carbon Project. This was achieved by reducing the grazing pressure from goats and livestock from neighbouring properties and controlling invasive weeds.

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Nature Foundation in action Protecting Habitats

Hiltaba Nature Reserve, South Australia Hiltaba’s diverse range of habitats make it ideal country for numerous species listed for their conservation significance. Hiltaba is a magnificent 78,000 hectare property featuring ancient granite hills overlooking plains of diverse grass and woodlands.

Adjoining the Gawler Ranges, the unique geological formations are home to species such as the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby, the Slender-billed Thornbill and Desert Greenhood Orchid. Hiltaba also nurtures a wide range of birds from the endemic Gawler Ranges Short-tailed Grasswren to the 1.5 metre tall Australian Bustard.

Saving Species

When Nature Foundation acquired Hiltaba in 2012 it was a habitat at significant risk.

The western-most colony of the Yellowfooted Rock-wallaby, resides in the isolated rocky hills and granite outcrops at Hiltaba Nature Reserve.

Applying active management, Nature Foundation has reduced the impact of several threatening processes, primarily focusing on total grazing pressure and predation. Total grazing pressure is from the combined impact of herbivores, both native and introduced, on native vegetation.

Nature Foundation removed all domestic stock and the majority of feral goats. Conservation activities include tackling the degradation caused by rabbits and monitoring the numbers of macropods. We actively reduced the numbers of feral foxes and cats to alleviate the pressure on native fauna, allowing them to reproduce and build in numbers as the habitat improves.

Today, regular surveys monitor the health of native flora and fauna at Hiltaba and the feral pests endangering them. This helps us to track the condition of the Reserve and ensures our conservation management strategies are responsive as we move towards restoring and protecting this biodiverse habitat for the future.

Yellow-footed Rockwallaby

Historically, these wallabies were widespread on Hiltaba’s hills but when the property was acquired, the numbers were low and confined to one main colony.

With the assistance of donations and in partnership with Department for Environment and Water, Nature Foundation implemented intensive goat and fox control around the colony.

Recent monitoring via camera traps has enabled ecologists to focus on the wallabies’ habitat use and the feral animals that threaten the species’ survival. We also purchased 10 radio collars for use on the wallabies.

These provide real-time positional fixes allowing ecologists to gain a better understanding of how the wallabies use the habitat.

The success of this collection of interventions is evidenced by the encouraging signs of population growth of the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby colony.

This outcome is the result of our planned, evidencebased and supported approach to deliver best practice conservation on a targeted reserve with high biodiversity value.

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Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

Our Story: Leadership in saving, protecting and restoring landscapes Nature Foundation is an apolitical not-forprofit organisation established in 1981 that invests in conserving, restoring and protecting landscapes, flora and fauna to ensure their survival.

Knowledge underpins Nature Foundation’s work to ensure we are making the most efficient, effective and valuable contributions to nature conservation.

Our nature conservation work is vital to sustainably manage the unique biodiversity, landscapes and waters of South Australia and beyond for future generations, and to connect with and inspire more people to conserve our beautiful natural environment.

In all we do, we are respectful of the cultural integrity of Aboriginal Traditional owners.

Our Vision Inspiring people to connect with and conserve the natural habitat of South Australia and beyond for future generations.

Our Mission Engaging people, resources and good science to conserve the precious habitat of South Australia and beyond.

Governance Nature Foundation is a company limited by guarantee and registered charity with deductible gift recipient 1 status. Our member-based organisation is governed by an independent, dedicated and highly qualified Board of Directors supported by four committees focussed on specific areas of Nature Foundation’s activities.

Our People Through our dedicated Board directors, staff and generous volunteers, Nature Foundation finds innovative and resourceful ways to conserve biodiversity for future generations in South Australia and beyond.

Board Jan Ferguson OAM, Chair Greg Limbert, Deputy Chair Associate Professor Jeremy Austin, Director Glenise Coulthard AM, Director Claire Fuller, Director Douglas Ransom, Director Professor Philip Weinstein, Director Lyn Wood, Director Key Staff Alex Nankivell, CEO Mark Ashley, Deputy CEO Georgie Fiedler, Corporate Services Program Manager Jem Shimmield, Senior Conservation Land Manager Paul Van Ruth, Science and Knowledge Program Manager Erica Stacey, Marketing and Communications Manager Patrick Mentzel, Philanthropy Coordinator

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Our Plan: Creating a Nature Positive future, together So much of the Australian landscape continues to decline.

Growing the protected area network is critically important to the future survival of our biodiversity.

Protected areas are becoming the final refuge, and purchasing properties with high biodiversity value is an important part of our strategy.

We seek to apply our science-led interventions to current and new nature reserves, to protect and conserve habitats and directly tackle the environmental challenges they face.

To achieve this, we need to build on our capacity to scale management, measurement and educational reach to improve outcomes for all.

We will continue to build upon our existing ecological monitoring and research programs to measure our impact more accurately on biodiversity, and how the landscape functions and ecosystem resilience, to inform ongoing management programs.

By streamlining these programs and applying an adaptive approach — including innovation and new technologies, Nature Foundation can increase the scale and impact of its vital conservation work.

The crisis we face in protecting nature, cannot be done in isolation. Nature Foundation also understands the value of working in partnership with others who are aligned under a shared vision for the Australian environment.

We know there will be many more benefits achieved beyond the fences of our reserves, by working with our neighbours and Aboriginal communities, the government, and environmental agencies.

The next step is to grow our footprint and scale our work to improve Australia’s natural capital, together with our supporters.

Credit: Regent Parrot by Sputnik

People like you can make the change needed for a world where nature — species and ecosystems, are being restored and regenerated, rather than declining. Help create this nature positive future, today.

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Growing the protected area network is critically important to the future survival of our biodiversity

Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

Our Goal: Double our impact for nature by protecting 1 million hectares of high value biodiverse Australian habitats by 2030 Focus Area

Need

Strategy

Impact

Investment

Acquire

Large habitats are being lost to clearing and degradation.

First priority is to secure properties with high biodiversity value that need protection.

Increase protection of vulnerable habitats.

$20m by 2030

Protect

Australia’s native species are increasingly threatened by habitat loss and invasive species and need protection.

Deliver, measure, monitor and report impactful and holistic land management best practices that protect biodiversity and conserve threatened species.

Threatened species are protected, and enhancing natural habitats so they are restored and conserved.

$6m per year

Research

Biodiversity overall is poorly monitored and there are significant knowledge gaps and lack of expertise in Australia.

Invest in science led solutions by offering scholarships, Honours, Masters and PhD students support and develop research that extends our knowledge.

New knowledge and skills enabling evidence-based decision-making on our reserves that protect and conserve habitats and species.

$250,000 per year

Educate

Aboriginal connection to land and cultural land management adds material value but requires focus to be reinvigorated and reinstated.

Train and empower young Aboriginal Australians towards a career pathway in environmental management.

More young Aboriginal people are empowered to a career in cultural land management.

$350,000 per year

Engage

The lack of awareness, understanding, resources and engagement in nature depletes the capacity to protect and conserve habitats in the future.

Lift awareness and offer opportunities including citizen science, volunteering and ecotourism so Australians are engaged in nature and inspired to support nature positive solutions.

Improved understanding, funding and capacity to deliver protection and conservation outcomes on reserves.

$1m per year

If you would like to learn more about making a positive impact on nature with us, get in touch today.

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Investment in nature Solutions in our sights

To strengthen capacity and create transform­ational outcomes that address Australia’s environmental challenges, we need community support.

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$1,000,000* will enable the purchase of 500-ha in the South-East (for example, Nature Foundation recently purchased Bullock Bridge, 202 hectares of high biodiversity land for $400,000). Acquiring, rehabilitating and conserving land is an effective and practical way to make a lasting difference to the environment. *prices vary depending on current market value.

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$500,000 per year will support specific comprehensive invasive species solutions, infrastructure and management on reserves including fencing and technologies to detect and eradicate pest and weed threats.

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$350,000 per year will deliver training and on Country camps to empower young Aboriginal students under 19 years, providing relevant environment education and inspiring them towards career pathways in cultural land management.

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$100,000 per year helps provide a research project or 20 research scholarships — providing an urgently needed pipeline of new knowledge and science led expertise and jobs.

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$50,000 will help drive community engagement programs that help broaden the volunteers supporting restoration and conservation efforts.

Annual gifts can make the difference for native species at risk.

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$10,000 per year and provide planned action to protect threatened species on reserves.

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$5,000 per year provides a Grand Start Grant for an Honours, Masters or PHD student to pursue a research project that supports increase knowledge aligned with Nature Foundation’s science strategy.

Witchelina Nature Reserve. Credit: Andy Rasheed

You are invited to become a valued supporter of the Nature Foundation.

Your contribution will make a vital impact.

Every gift and monthly donation will contribute to our work across all areas that make an impact on nature.

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Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

I have always been impressed

by Nature Foundation’s unwavering commitment to environmental conservation.

Their impactful initiatives and dedication to preserving our part of the planet has inspired me to regularly donate, knowing that every contribution plays an important role in safeguarding the beauty and biodiversity of our natural world.”

Michael Sanderson

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Pretty Point sunrise. Credit: Bill Doyle

How to contribute

You are invited to invest in protection and conservation of natural habitats with us

Make a donation or bequest

Corporate Partnerships

The generosity of donors enables us to achieve measurable positive outcomes for nature in South Australia and beyond.

Your company is invited to engage in a codesigned, multiyear partnership with Nature Foundation at an organisational level, with the potential to link into one or more specific program areas with aligned benefits that make a measurable impact on nature. Your valued investment will deliver outcomes for threatened habitats and native species to enable a thriving future, whilst maximising your social responsibility, marketing and engagement objectives.

Donations have contributed to land purchases such as Hiltaba Nature Reserve, through to GPS Trackers to learn about the movements of wedge-tailed eagles, infrastructure like fences and maintenance at our major reserves, cultural environmental education camps for Aboriginal high school students, environmental research scholarships, Feral Cat eradication on Kangaroo Island, Glossy Black Cockatoo Recovery Program, the Kangaroo Island plant nursery and many more successful projects.

Nature Foundation seeks to align your partnership with measurable targets within your corporate social responsibility and ESG frameworks, delivering on a shared vision for nature.

Donations can be large or small, individual or corporate, regular or occasional. Every donation counts and is warmly appreciated.

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Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

Nature Foundation supporters create an impact Numerous levels of engagement are available: •

Habitat Hero Monthly support will make an important commitment towards Nature Foundation’s work to protect, conserve, research, engage and educate for greater environmental outcomes. You will be acknowledged for your important contribution and learn how you make our difference through our Impact Report.

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Habitat Partner An annual gift between $1,000 and $10,000 creates a direct impact for Nature Foundation’s most urgent projects that protect and conserve nature. We update our Habitat Partners on the vital impact they help deliver each year.

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Membership

major donors making an impact on nature with an annual commitment of $10,000 or more, pledged for five years.

You will be making a valuable contribution to Nature Foundation’s land management, science, research, engagement, and education work and acknowledged for your enduring level of support. Nature Circle members will be invited to actively learn about Nature Foundation’s planned approach to land management they are helping to deliver.

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Forever Nature Fund Protect habitats and wildlife today, tomorrow and forever with an important gift that contributes to the acquisition of critical environments at risk. The Forever Nature Fund is at the heart of our vision to double our footprint of protected environment. Forever Nature Fund benefactors will be contributing to the purchase of properties that have been prioritised using data driven scientific and environmental assessment tools to determine their biodiversity value. Benefactors’ recognition will be tailored to individual contributions.

Join a group of wonderful people dedicated to conserving, protecting and restoring South Australia’s natural landscapes and make a difference. We warmly welcome new members.

Become a volunteer Every type of skill is needed. Our volunteers offer essential help with working bees, events, scientific research, planting days, and office work.

Nature Circle Become part of our engaged family of

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Vision for Nature Society Create a legacy to protect and conserve habitats and threatened species for future generations by leaving a bequest to support Nature Foundation’s work. When you confirm the gift to Nature Foundation in your Will, you will be invited to join Vision for Nature to enjoy the benefits of membership of this select group. Vision for Nature brings together people with a deep concern for, and commitment to, our natural environment thriving well beyond our own lifetimes and shares the impact they will make.

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Murbpook Lagoon reflections: Credit: Lucy Clive

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Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

Our Commitment to You and to Nature Nature Foundation has a more than 40 year history of engaging with community and responding to the dire need to address the degradation of our environment, and threat to vulnerable flora and fauna.

Our response is to enact science-led solutions and best practice land management — resulting in renewed colonies of endangered wildlife and restored habitats.

With sincere gratitude, we recognise our supporters and partners who have helped make this positive impact on nature to date.

And as we look to the future, our vision is to boldly extend the footprint of protected habitats and species, and restore biodiversity, to ensure better environmental, health and economic outcomes that benefit us all.

Join with us. Together we can plan and protect nature today, tomorrow and forever.

Contact us for a confidential chat to learn more.

Patrick Mentzel Philanthropy Coordinator T. +61 (0) 8 8340 2880 M. +61 (0) 425 410 561 patrick.mentzel@naturefoundation.org.au

Nature Foundation Kaurna Country Level 2, Payinthi 128 Prospect Road, Prospect SA 5082 Australia www.naturefoundation.org.au

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Nature Foundation Protecting Nature Together

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Fauna habitat pile at Witchelina Nature Reserve. Credit: Coral Johnston

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