Challenge - Supporting Kids with Cancer
Natural Instinct is proud to support 'Challenge - supporting kids with cancer' by donating 20c for every micro-mineral sunscreen sold to support their wonderful work with sick kids in our community.
Challenge is a non-profit organisation which was established in 1983 to provide daily support to any child 0 - 19 years old living with cancer or a life - threatening blood disorder, and their families.
Challenge offers services for families 365 days a year, which include camps, hospital support, respite and holiday accommodation, parent support, family activity days and extensive ticketing program, among an array of other services.
The Challenge office, known as Challenge House, is conveniently located near the Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) in West Melbourne and is within walking distance to Melbourne's CBD.
Visit their website at www.challenge.org.au
Australian Rainforest Foundation
Natural Instinct is working in partnership with Australian Rainforest Foundation to build vital links in Australia's Daintree rainforest by donating 10c for every Home Care product sold.
Hero 2 is the centrepiece of the Australian Rainforest Foundation effort in the Daintree. It is 200 acres of land at Cape Tribulation. The block joins the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area with Thompson Creek flowing through its centre. The land has been identified by scientists as having exceptional ecological vulnerable containing many rare and threatened species including the endangered cassowary.
A little over a quarter of the allotment had been previously cleared for farming and through the Natural Instinct contribution this area is being re-established to provide vital habitat for these unique and threatened animals using locally sourced plants which in themselves are helping protect vulnerable plant species of the area.
The Natural Instinct Project is also ensuring the protection of intact remnant riparian rainforest on the site adjacent to Thompson Creek and in fragmented patches of re-growth in the cleared areas.
In addition, Australian Rainforest Foundation with the assistance of Natural Instinct is controlling a range of environmental weeds and introduced species which occur in these cleared areas and on the forest's margins.
The Australian Rainforest Foundation has built a specialist nursery close to the site to gather seeds and forest stems for use in the revegetation. The ARF estimates that 30,000 trees may be needed to complete the revegetation of this essential forest link.
Natural Instinct is proud to join with Australian Rainforest Foundation to become a Hero 2 Partner Organisation.
Visit their website at www.arf.net.au