Wow. What an incredible 12 months it’s been for Wilderlands.
We kicked off the year celebrating our First 100 and are closing having permanently protected over 220,000 square metres of precious Australian biodiversity.
We’ve launched ground-breaking products with partners that prove businesses can protect the planet whilst bringing customers on the journey.
As well as showing how credits can be connected to corporate events and staff gifts to embed impact into everything we do and build biodiversity protection into our business operations.
All of this has been possible thanks to you – the Wilderlands community.
So what is it that has helped Wilderlands attract such incredible people and partners passionate about protecting the planet?
Hope.
This word has arisen time and time again when speaking to supporters about what attracted them to Wilderlands.
It was the word that Sally Shaw spoke of when sharing the story of her incredible father John Rymer and the opportunity to continue his legacy by protecting a patch of the Coorong that would have real impact today, as well as tomorrow.
It was also the message from peers who shared how refreshing they found our stories celebrating signs of progress and the people making it possible.
At Wilderlands, we constantly seeking ways to spotlight these glimpses of hope, believing that change is achievable and optimism is justified — even if we also at times feel outrage.
Over the past 12 months we’ve had the fortune of connecting with peers at conferences across the globe – from Quebec to Columbia and of course closer to home at the Nature Positive Summit in Sydney – and in every room we’ve found people equally passionate about protecting nature and determined to tackle this together.
These rooms often highlight that humans are part of the problem, but I’m encouraged to see the recognition that we are also key to the solution as well and we’re seeing first hand the impact that we can have through our projects across Australia.
The past year has seen our conservation partnership with Cassinia Environmental take huge strides, as has our relationship with the Ngarrindjeri people and Raukkan community who were instrumental in our recent work at the Coorong with Bill Harman and his students from TAFE SA.
Stories like these are inspiring and energising, and equally encouraging is the response we are seeing from the business community who are starting to take action.
Our partnership with Tasman Environmental Markets has helped us protect over 70,000 square metres in the past five weeks.
Since launching in September, 15 organisations, including Matchbox Pictures, ACOR Consultants and Laneway Music Festival, have invested in the solution, permanently protecting over 70,000 square metres (nearly four times the size of the Melbourne Cricket Ground) of threatened Australian biodiversity, and the home to over 730 native species.
We look forward to seeing demand continue to grow over the months to come.
And so finally we now turn our attention to 2025 and are filled with hope that together we can make great strides in tackling the biodiversity crisis challenge that sits before us.
We invite you to connect with our team if you’re ready to protect Australia’s biodiversity, forever.
Together we can do this. Our future depends on it.
