Vital Work Appeal 2025

Empowering volunteers for nature.

Volunteers are crucial to Australia’s environmental and climate change action and response. Every year, hundreds of thousands of volunteers work directly in the environmental and climate change space, from conservation, rehabilitation, and adaption to tree planting, threatened species protection, land management, clean-up, wildlife rescue, recycling, education and citizen science, to name a few.¹

Nature Foundation volunteers play a vital role in contributing to our conservation efforts across our nature reserves, in the office, and at events. We are incredibly grateful for this passionate group of dedicated people actively participating in our work.

With our current and future conservation needs that can be supported by volunteers, it is essential that we support our volunteers so they can undertake this work effectively and safely.

Nature Foundation’s annual Vital Work Appeal helps us achieve the property maintenance and infrastructure improvements required across our growing network of nature reserves, enabling us to conduct and improve conservation efforts and results.

It also gives you the opportunity to play a vital role in supporting biodiversity and nature, with all donations contributing directly to on-ground conservation work.

Nature needs your help now more than ever.

This year’s appeal is focused on funding vital equipment to assist our field staff and volunteers in taking positive action to conserve, restore, and protect precious Australian landscapes and their unique native species.

We were overwhelmed by last year’s response to our Vital Work Appeal, raising our highest amount in the history of the appeal, $148,000—thank you. 

Buoyed by this confidence from you and our dedicated supporters, we have increased the stakes in 2025, aiming to raise $150,000, which will help fund:

• Volunteer infrastructure and equipment such as:
  • Two dedicated trailers, equipped for fire control, watering, and spraying.
  • A storage shed at Bullock Bridge Nature Reserve.
  • Battery-operated tools e.g. drills for drill and fill weed control.
  • A car fridge with solar panels for safe food and cool drink storage during day and overnight activities.
  • Tent platforms for overnight stays on nature reserves.
  • Binoculars for bird and fauna surveys.
  • Training volunteers in relevant skills such as 4WD, safe chemical use, and equipment use.
• Ongoing fencing needs across the reserves, with a focus on our latest addition, Mongolurring Nature Reserve.

We want to express our heartfelt gratitude for your past donations to Nature Foundation. As an independent non-profit and non-government organisation, your charitable gifts have had a direct and positive impact on nature and our unique biodiversity across South Australia and beyond.

It's important to remember that every dollar you donate to the Nature Foundation is a powerful investment in our planet's future. Your contributions fund important conservation activities and programs, helping us to conserve and restore our current nature reserves, protect even more land, stop species loss, and mitigate the increasing effects of climate change.

As a charity with deductible gift recipient (DGR) status, all donations are tax-deductible. At the beginning of the financial year, we will resend you all your donation receipts to help you record your donations and accurately reduce your taxable income.

We understand the impact of the increased cost of living on Australians, and we sincerely thank you for all donations made to Nature Foundation. Every donation of any size truly makes a difference to nature.

Thank you for your ongoing support of Nature Foundation.