The 2024 Friends of Parks Awards were held on Saturday night, as part of the weekend's 33rd Friends of Parks Forum.

The Friends of Parks Inc. Awards recognise outstanding group achievements in five different categories and Nature Foundation were delighted to sponsor the Habitat Protection and Restoration Award.

Congratulations to all winners and nominees. These tireless volunteers are undertaking critical work supporting our natural environments.

High quality nature science underpins all of our efforts to manage our unique biodiversity for future generations sustainably, and an essential aspect of this is offering research grants for university students, funded by donations from our generous supporters.
 
Coinciding with National Science Week (10-18 August 2024), we are excited to share this year's research grant recipients and their projects with you.

We are pleased to bring you this research report update from 2023 Grand Start Grants – PhD recipient, Jack Bilby, comparing the responses of a native and invasive mammal to extreme heat events.

We are delighted to bring you this research report update from 2023 Roy and Marjory Edwards Scholarship recipient (over 3 years), Beth Treglown, identifying environmental drivers that destabilise ecological communities of temperate wetlands.

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 28 September to 13 October 2024, and offers hundreds of events for all ages, full of creative ways to connect with nature and each other.