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Community resilience is inextricably linked to the resilience of the landscapes in which we live. As the environment and climate changes, there is a need for greater innovation in our approaches to cultivating both community and environmental resilience.
NAB Foundation supports projects that build environmental resilience to natural disasters and climate change at scale.
Partnerships proudly supported by NAB Foundation
Odonata Foundation
Odonata Foundation is dedicated to protecting Australia’s endangered native species. With support from NAB Foundation, Odonata is expanding its ‘We Save Species Recovery Model’, working with landholders to rebuild genetically strong populations of threatened wildlife, including the eastern quoll, mainland eastern barred bandicoot, and southern brush-tailed rock wallaby.
NAB Foundation’s support will contribute to Odonata’s “500-in-5” programme, which aims to boost populations of at least nine threatened species by establishing a minimum of 500 individuals across five or more safe havens and wild sites. The funding is helping to facilitate the strategic movement of animals between sites to maintain genetic diversity, establish new populations and protect them against threats such as fires and floods.
Odonata’s approach empowers landholders to create safe habitats where wildlife and farming can thrive together. These species act as ecosystem engineers, improving soil health, water retention, and farm productivity, while also supporting climate resilience.
Image provided by Odonata Foundation
Bush Heritage Australia
Bush Heritage Australia is a leading not-for-profit conservation organisation with over 30 years of experience protecting Australia’s unique ecosystems, wildlife and landscapes.
With support from NAB Foundation, Bush Heritage is advancing a 600-hectare biodiverse restoration project at ‘Dodgey Downs’ reserve in southwest Western Australia. This project sits within the Fitz-Stirling landscape, aiming to connect the Stirling Range and Fitzgerald River National Parks and create vital habitat corridors for native wildlife.
NAB Foundation’s support enables specialist carbon, soil, and vegetation mapping, cultural heritage surveys with the Goreng Noongar Traditional Custodians, and development approvals, which will lay the groundwork for large-scale ecological restoration. The project will serve as a demonstration site, showing how nature-based solutions can both capture carbon and protect biodiversity.
Photo by Grassland Films. Provided by Bush Heritage Australia
Accounting for Nature
Accounting for Nature delivers world-leading science-based standards for measuring, verifying and certifying changes in the state of nature.
NAB Foundation's support is enabling Accounting for Nature to develop a nature positive commodity and asset labelling program to help producers demonstrate environmental stewardship, supporting market access and premiums for food, fibre and other commodities.
Built on the internationally recognised Accounting for Nature® Framework, already applied across landscapes spanning millions of hectares, the program will feature pilot testing with leading producers, independent scientific oversight and technology to track labels through the value chain. By providing a science-based certification of environmental outcomes, the labelling program aims to cut through complexity and give producers a trusted, practical way to meet growing global demand for nature positive commodities.
Image provided by Accounting for Nature
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