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New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage
Implements a broad range of activities to connect people to nature, including empowering youth and young professionals and educational and citizen science programs such as WilderQuest, Wild About Whales, Discovery and innovative children-centred experiences.
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Knox City Council
Gardens for Wildlife supports residents and local businesses to connect and care for nature. We encourage individuals and families to support local flora and fauna through creating habitat on their private land.
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Lane Cove Council
Lane Cove Bush Kids connects families with the local natural world. We encourage families to spend time, enjoy, learn about and value the natural world. The program is designed to increase our local community's awareness, understanding and engagement in the natural environment. Lane Cove Bush Kids is also about building community, encouraging connections between local families and increasing our knowledge and engagement with the place we live in.
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New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage
Implements a broad range of activities to connect people to nature, including empowering youth and young professionals and educational and citizen science programs such as WilderQuest, Wild About Whales, Discovery and innovative children-centred experiences.
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Parks Australia
Supporting the Director of National Parks who has responsibility under federal environment law for seven Commonwealth national parks, the Australian National Botanic Gardens and Australia's network of Commonwealth marine reserves.
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Parks Victoria
Increasing community advocacy and engagement in parks and protected areas through outreach and programs that recognise the health and wellbeing benefits of nature
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Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc. (AAEE)
As Australia’s peak professional body for environmental educators, we advocate for environmental education and contribute to skills development to help you stay at the forefront of education for sustainability. We provide a network for the growing force of cross-sector environmental educators across our states and territories.
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Australian Committee for IUCN Inc.
The Australian Committee for IUCN was founded over forty years ago to provide a focus for local member organisations of IUCN to advance the network’s global mission and programme in Australia.
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Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute
Delivering nature-based education and experiential learning programs that instil a passion for nature and build awareness of our interdependence and shared responsibility for the natural environment.
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Conservation Volunteers Australia
Conservation Volunteers Australia strives to strengthen the health of our communities and our ecosystems for mutually beneficial outcomes. We exist to make a difference – and the difference that we make is the sum of our on-ground and in-community impacts. Our work has an impact in two areas: Stronger Communities and More Resilient Ecosystems.
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Dive For Change Australia
We work with schools to educate and connect children with nature. Starting with in-classroom activities, we mostly focus on turtles and reef environmental awareness, then organise educational trips out to local turtle nesting sites/the barrier reef.
Faith and Ecology Network
FEN is an Australian hub for strengthening an interfaith dialogue between science and religion. We encourage action between different faith communities regarding ecological insights through holding events, producing publications and sharing information through our networks and on social media. Our network includes people from, but not limited to Aboriginal, Anglican, Bahá’í, Buddhist, Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Jewish, Hindu, Islamic, Quaker, and Uniting Church faith traditions.
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Habitat Stepping Stones
An engaging online tool which makes it easy for people to create effective habitat stepping stones in their own backyards.
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Human Nature Projects
Human Nature Projects (HNP) is an international environmental NGO pioneering an innovative model of community management for inclusive conservation actions and design.
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International Nature and Forest Therapy Alliance
INFTA has been set up in response to the growing need for a peak body to represent the manifold activities of people, businesses and organisations in the area of Forest Therapy and Forest Medicine. INFTA reflects the growing demand for a unified public and professional voice with regards to Forest Therapy.
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Naeus
We help councils and governments promote open spaces with a focus on conservation areas and ecological education. Our app is free for all to use and will always remain this way.
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Nature Play WA
Nature Play WA Inc is an incorporated not-for-profit association established to increase the time Western Australian children spend in unstructured play outdoors and in nature. It is founded on the understanding that unstructured play outdoors (nature play) is fundamental to a full and healthy childhood. Nature play is, of itself, an intrinsic good and from it flow benefits in health, cognitive, social and emotional development and in the building of resilience and creativity. Experience in nature as a child also leads to environmental stewardship later in life.
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Nature Stewards Program - Outdoors Victoria
The Nature Stewards program promotes environmental literacy and stewardship of nature through discovery, action, and ongoing learning. The program directly supports participants in training and volunteering, thereby generating benefits for the wider community and the environment.
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NatureLink Perth
NatureLink Perth is a community of practice encompassing state and local government, industry and community working together to integrate nature into the city of Perth promoting biodiversity conservation and nature-linked urban design. Our goal is to conserve the fascinating biodiversity in Perth WA, in one of the world's 35 biodiversity hotspots, and create a more liveable city for all.
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PARKS AND LEISURE AUSTRALIA
As the national professional body for parks and recreation throughout Australia, PLA has long advocated for the value of nature to social well-being and human health in its publications, regional seminars and through its annual national conference program.
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People and Parks Foundation
People and Parks Foundation develops resources to connect people to parks for health, wellbeing and sustainable natural environments. Our vision is for all people to have access and opportunity to engage with nature now and into the future.
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Sunshine Coast Environment Council
Over its 40 year history SCEC has been involved in many campaigns to preserve the beautiful natural environment of the Sunshine Coast region. SCEC is working with the local community and the broader conservation sector to come up with solutions to environmental problems while working to promote and protect the natural values we hold so dear.
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Tasmanian Land Conservancy
A not-for-profit, apolitical, science and community based organisation that uses business principles to achieve its work.
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The Connective
The Connective is a group of community minded scientific practitioners from the environment, education and health sectors that are working together to encourage people to spend time outdoors, connect with nature and place and enjoy the collective health giving benefits. Creating programs and conversations, sharing stories, information, challenges, new ideas and resources so communities can connect better with nature.
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The Urban Field Naturalist Project
The Urban Field Naturalist Project is a a collaboration bringing design research, digital & environmental humanities, and life sciences together, with a focus on community nature storytelling.
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Big Fat Smile
Big Fat Smile, a not-for-profit, community-owned child education, care and inclusion service organisation that serves 3,500 families and provides 400,000 unique care experiences per year. We recognise that children can gain emotional, social and physical benefit from spending time in nature.
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BlueBottle Films
Since 2011, Blue Bottle Films has travelled on epic adventures around Australia producing video and documentary work, primarily specialising in the natural world.
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Habitat
A touch-based mobile social game that combines traditional mobile gaming with real world environmental activities and imaginative play to engage kids with protecting the environment. Utilizing gaming technology, Habitat the Game is able to get players outside exploring and interacting with their environment.
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Living Links
Living Links is an urban nature project working to create a web of green spaces across Melbourne's south-east. By linking up the natural spaces across the region, we will improve habitat for wildlife and make it easier for people to connect with nature as part of their daily lives.
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Passage Adventures
Increasing awareness of the global issue of marine debris, and inspire others to take action. In May 2018 the pair kayaked 2000km from Juneau Alaska, to Vancouver Island, and aim to raise $20K for marine debris organisations in Australia and Canada.
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