2025 was a big year for People For Nature. Together with our amazing community, we educated thousands of Australians on climate and biodiversity, ran hands-on workshops, and inspired action for nature.
From citizen science projects to corporate partnerships, our collective efforts are making a real difference — and we want to share it with you.
Dive into our 2025 Impact Report to see the stories, the numbers, and the people driving change. Let’s celebrate what’s possible when people power meets nature.
Why People For Nature encourages every Oasis to use iNaturalist
At People For Nature, we believe that protecting nature starts with connection — and that everyday people play a vital role in restoring and understanding the living world around them.
That’s why we encourage everyone creating a Nature Oasis to use iNaturalist: a simple, joyful way to turn your patch of nature into a living contribution to science.
What is iNaturalist?
iNaturalist is a free app that allows you to photograph plants, animals and fungi, upload your observations, and help build one of the world’s largest biodiversity databases.
Your sightings don’t just stay on your phone — they become real data, used by scientists, conservation groups and decision-makers to better understand biodiversity and how it’s changing.
Why iNaturalist belongs in every Nature Oasis
Nature Oases are designed to restore habitat, invite biodiversity back, and reconnect people with the natural world. iNaturalist helps make those changes visible.
By using the app, you can:
🌿 see what species are already present in your Oasis
🐝 track pollinators, birds and other wildlife as habitat improves
📈 observe changes over time as your Oasis grows and matures
🧩 contribute valuable local data to national and global research
Every observation strengthens the case for nature-positive action — starting right where you live.
Citizen science that’s genuinely fun
You don’t need to be a scientist. You don’t need special equipment. All you need is curiosity.
Using iNaturalist often feels like:
a nature scavenger hunt
a shared learning experience with kids, friends or neighbours
a moment of wonder when you realise how much life is around you
And the iNaturalist community is there to help identify species, answer questions and celebrate discoveries with you.
From individual Oases to collective impact
One Nature Oasis matters. Thousands of Nature Oases? That’s a movement.
When many People For Nature participants use iNaturalist, we begin to:
build a clearer picture of biodiversity across communities
support citizen-led conservation and monitoring
strengthen Australia’s contribution to global biodiversity knowledge
show that people power can make nature visible — and valued
This is climate and biodiversity action grounded in place, care and participation.
How to get started
Download iNaturalist (free on iOS and Android)
Step into your Nature Oasis
Photograph what you see — plants, insects, birds, fungi
Upload your observation and let the community help identify it
That’s it. You’re now part of a global citizen science network — through People For Nature.
Because every Nature Oasis tells a story. And with iNaturalist, we can make sure those stories count.
Some people work on climate solutions in boardrooms. Others bring them to life in circles of conversation — where citizens become part of the solution.
Meet Mélanie Ducros.
Originally from New Caledonia and now based in Victoria, Mélanie is deeply committed to climate action across the Pacific region. Her work is grounded in a simple but powerful belief: when people are informed and empowered, they become a driving force for change.
Mélanie is a process, energy and environmental engineer, with nine years of experience working on international development projects across West and North Africa and the Indo-Pacific. Her work has focused on the intersection of renewable energy, sustainable water access and climate adaptation — where technical solutions meet real human needs.
Today, she continues this journey through her work on energy transition with the French–Australian Indo-Pacific Centre for Energy Transition (FACET), helping shape conversations around a more sustainable future between France, Australia and the broader region.
But one of her most meaningful contributions happens in a very different setting: a room full of people, markers on tables, and a Climate Fresk unfolding through shared discovery.
She shares:
“Being an ambassador for People For Nature inspires me because I am convinced that citizen-led initiatives like P4N are essential to driving real change. Facilitating Climate Fresk workshops gives me the strong feeling that I am contributing to meaningful impact. It is also incredibly enriching — I always leave each workshop inspired and energised by the conversations and insights shared by participants. As ambassadors, we receive as much as we give.”
This is what citizen-powered change looks like: not distant, not abstract — but shared, participatory, and deeply human.
And it grows every time someone steps into the conversation.
VSL Australia has put sustainability at the centre of its operations, and has a big focus on educating and empowering its workforce.
Internally driven by Jonathan Handschuh, one of our Ambassadors, VSL has run countless Climate Fresk workshops, helping its teams understand climate science and how they play a part in creating a better future.
The organisation has now moved into the next phase of climate education, running Biodiversity Collage workshops. This is deepening understanding, building further engagement and accelerating climate action.
Program Objectives
VSL Australia has set an ambitious climate action plan. To deliver on it, employees need to be engaged and understand the role they can play in achieving its goals. By building climate literacy and fostering awareness of the challenges, people can see how their actions contribute to a more sustainable future.
Impact & Feedback
“Rolling out Climate Fresk workshops across the organisation has helped mobilise our teams. When people connect emotionally with climate facts, their actions become more meaningful and impactful. And the impact extends beyond the workplace: when people connect the dots they drive positive change in their personal lives as well.”
Andrew Manser, Managing Director, VSL ANZ
Interested in organising a workshop for your organisation?
We’ll empower your people to power change for nature. Contact us today to find out more.
Click below to download the VSL Australia case study.
Nature is disappearing around us – quietly, rapidly, and often unnoticed. But together, we can reverse this trend.
To bend the curve before 2050 and reduce biodiversity loss, we must pair ambitious conservation efforts with sustainable practices and behaviour change.
That’s where the Nature Oasis initiative comes in
The Nature Oasis network empowers all Australians to create and celebrate all vibrant spaces for native wildlife.
What is Nature Oasis?
Nature Oasis is a citizen-led initiative by People For Nature that enables Australians to turn any space – balconies, gardens, schoolyards, private properties, parks – into habitats supporting native biodiversity.
Whatever the size, a Nature Oasis is a space where biodiversity flourishes, where nature is respected and allowed to thrive.
A few flowers are enough to bring back Christmas beetles, native bees, and butterflies!
So, say goodbye to uniform mowed lawns, long hedges of yew, and other ‘green deserts,’ as well as pesticides and other harmful practices…
Nature Oasis is not a gardening platform, it’s a network of people-powered actions to halt the decline of local biodiversity.
Join the Nature Oasis initiative
1. Start here by signing the Nature Oasis Charter. This is a voluntary commitment to adopting best practices that support the flourishing of native wildlife and flora.
2. Register your Nature Oasis (new or existing) and share its location on the map (coming soon!).
3. As you expand your Nature Oasis, update the details (for example, if you currently have a pollinator garden, in future you may update to include you have also created a bee hotel).
4. Inspire others to follow your lead – embrace your role as a nature ambassador!
The Nature Oasis Charter
Follow these 6 principles and help restore Australia’s rich ecosystems, one patch at a time 💚
About the Nature Oasis network and app
We’re building a national network of Nature Oasis spaces, creating the largest repository of citizen-powered conservation and regeneration spaces.
Inspired by French NGO, Humanité and Biodiversité, Nature Oasis aims to build a global network of these spaces. We’re creating a platform to connect citizens’ environmental actions to national conservation outcomes, powered by accessible, user-friendly tech.
People For Nature is creating an app that will:
💚 Build community through shared stories, actions, impact stats, and local nature challenges
🗺️ Map and visualise each oasis across Australia
📸 Foster and enable user participation. People will be able to register their oasis and share photos, data, or actions taken
🌳 Gather ecological data to support research, species tracking, and restoration goals
By leveraging technology and collaboration, we will connect individual actions to a national effort, gathering data to support scientific research, restore ecosystems, protect species, and foster a deeper connection to nature.
Why it matters: Empowering Citizen Conservation
Nature Oasis is more than a project—it’s a citizen-led movement, aligned with Australia’s Nature Strategy 2024–2030, that empowers everyday Australians to take meaningful action where they live.
“97% of Australians want more environmental action, but fewer than 5% volunteer in conservation. Nature Oasis flips the script—bringing conservation home and inviting everyone to get involved.”
Together, we’re reconnecting people to nature through accessible tools, inspiring workshops, and local action
