Calling for Environmental Champions!
Monday, 17 October 2016
Growing with GroNATIVE! Here at Natura Pacific, we are so excited to be launching our brand new, free app in collaboration with the Queensland Government and Griffith University on gardening with native plants in South East Queensland. BUT for GroNATIVE to really take hold and benefit a large number of people, and our environment, we
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Congratulations to the Healthy Waterways Award Winners for 2016
Friday, 15 July 2016
Natura Education and our partners from the City of Gold Coast Catchment Management Unit were honoured to be among the finalists for this year’s Healthy Waterways Awards. In attending the Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner last week, we were so proud to be in the company of so many who are contributing truly wonderful things to
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VIDEO: Introducing our new vertical garden!
Thursday, 14 July 2016
Would could be better than a cool wall of green and the sound of trickling water in your workplace? The team here at Natura Pacific are very excited to be helping put together our very own green wall which will form the backdrop to our workspace. Take a look while Mark shows you how the
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A new species of water bug on the Gold Coast
Monday, 13 June 2016
Here at Natura Education we are very privileged to be working with a team of educators and scientists that are not only skilled in delivering a variety of education programs to students of all ages, but are also experts in their respective fields. John Pumpurs is Natura Education’s resident frog and water bug expert and
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Natura-Pacific takes out UN Environment Award
Tuesday, 07 June 2016
Running since 2000, more than 40 schools, journalists, local councils, environmental organisations and individuals were finalists in the 2016 UN World Environment Day Awards. And last night, in a glittering ceremony in Melbourne, Natura-Pacific was announced winner of the Business Award category. Natura Pacific, which has a small team of just 15, provides environmental education
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We are 2016 Healthy Waterways Awards Finalists!
Wednesday, 01 June 2016
We are very excited to share that our recently released Waterways Field Guide has been nominated as a finalist for the 2016 Healthy Waterways Awards, in the category of Sustainable Education. These guides were developed as an initiative of Gold Coast Waterwatch, which was supported and undertaken by both the City of Gold Coast Catchment Management
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Waterways Field Guide – Series 2 to 4 are here!
Friday, 27 May 2016
In December last year, Natura Pacific and City of Gold Coast released the first in a series of field guides titled “Waterways Field Guide, Series 1: Water Bugs”. Take a look at our article on this here. Being an initiative of Gold Coast Waterwatch, the Water Bugs guide was quickly heralded to be a success by
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Natura’s native plants app scores share of $1M funding
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Most of the plants that end up as weeds in the Australian landscape start out as garden plants. But a Gold Coast social enterprise is about to make inroads in reduce the spread of weeds. Natura Pacific, based at Burleigh Heads is working in partnership with Griffith University to produce an app which will help
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Calling all ‘Earth-Friendly’ early childhood professionals!
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Can you believe we are into a new year? If you are anything like us you may still be recovering from the end-of-year and Christmas whirlwind! For those of you in childcare this may well have been a flurry of arranging enrolments for the new year, preschoolers moving on to big school, graduations, Christmas parties,
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Ethical Enterprise Awards 2015
Thursday, 05 November 2015
This week at Natura Pacific we received some fantastic news from the Ethical Enterprise Awards 2015, run by Melbourne-based Moral Fair Ground and Australian Ethical. We have been nominated as one of 11 finalists for the award and are invited to attend the Awards Dinner and Conference in Melbourne on 4th December!! Essentially this award aims
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