From 28 August to 15 September 2025, you can write your Will for free with Safewill.

A Will is important for every Australian over the age of 18, regardless of what you own. Writing a Will ensures that your assets and possessions are distributed according to your wishes, as well as selecting who administers your estate and who will be the appointed guardian for your loved ones.

Nature Foundation has partnered with Australian company Safewill to provide a comprehensive yet straightforward, cost-effective, and secure way to write and manage your Will online. And during Free Wills Fortnight, you can write a Will for free.

The successful receipt of a Friends of Parks and Nature Grant has enabled our Reserve Management team to conduct a series of crucial native plant and weed identification and control training sessions for volunteers at Murbpook Nature Reserve earlier this month.

The sessions were facilitated by two of our Murbpook weed control contractors, Amanda and Petrina, who educated the group about the priority weed species on the reserve, how to identify between exotic and native plants, along with a range of weed control techniques and their recommended timings. Volunteers then tested their training by mapping some sample weed locations around the reserve and recording their findings in our data collection platform.

In May 2025, the SA Arid Lands (SAAL) Landscape Board arranged a survey expedition to explore areas of habitat believed suitable for the species in the Gawler Ranges region, as part of SAAL's Discovery4Recovery project, funded by the Australian Government's Natural Heritage Trust.

The survey brought together team members from the SAAL Landscape Board, South Australian Seed Conservation Centre, National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia, Gawler Ranges Aboriginal Corporation, Far West Coast Rangers, and Nature Foundation. Starting at Hiltaba Nature Reserve, survey leads Elisa Sparrow (SAAL) and Dan Duval (Senior Collections Officer, South Australian Seed Conservation Centre) briefed the group on the characteristics of the species, keys to identification, and habitat preferences, before embarking on a series of searches in various locations around the reserve aligned with those habitat preferences.

Nature means the world to us. It's in our name. It's intrinsic to everything we do. So we are proud to be part of this year's Nature Festival, both as a Festival Partner and involved with a number of events.

Nature Festival is a two week celebration of our love of nature in South Australia, and from 26 September to 12 October 2025, and offers hundreds of events for all ages, full of creative ways to connect with nature and each other.

Following a reschedule due to the originally planned planting day for National Tree Day on Sunday 28 July being too wet to go ahead, our annual Watchalunga Planting Day was held yesterday.

Our dedicated team of Nature Foundation staff, members, supporters, and volunteers came together to plant 1,750 native seedlings, a significant contribution to the critical habitat of the endangered Mount Lofty Ranges Southern Emu-wren.