Easy ways for you to support NaRLA

NaRLA is breaking new ground in nature conservation with its specific focus on privately owned and controlled lands, and in the practical ways it is going about encouraging and empowering landholders to manage their land for effective nature conservation in conjunction with other uses of the land.

Apart from its practical on-the-ground work to facilitate nature conservation in Queensland, NaRLA is seeking to develop new and practical integrated business, land management, and nature conservation models of operation that can be adapted and applied on private lands anywhere in the world.

There are many ways in which you could help bring this exciting vision to fruition!

No matter what your personal circumstances, time commitments, or location in the world, we can offer you an opportunity to play a valuable part in NaRLA’s contribution to nature conservation. Ways in which you could help NaRLA include:

Join our Friends of NaRLA support group

You don't have to be a member of NaRLA to support our goals and activities— join Friends of NarLA. For details, see our NaRLA Membership page.

Work as a NaRLA volunteer supporting our professional staff.

We can use assistance in a wide range of skill areas, including: secretarial, ecology, communications, law, business, environmental field studies, botany, zoology, marketing, education, management, graphic design, etc. Your assistance as an experienced professional or as a novice assistant in any of these fields would be welcome. If you live anywhere in Australia or even overseas, there is probably something that you can do as a NaRLA volunteer in your home area. If you would like to offer your services to NaRLA as a volunteer, please contact us and tell us what your field/s of interest and levels of competence and experience are, and what you would like to do, where in the world you would like to do it, and how much time each week you could comfortably spare to work as part of the NaRLA team.

Make a donation to NaRLA. (All donations over $2 are tax deductible!)

Like any charitable not-for-profit Non-Government Organisation, NaRLA’s capacity to maintain its activities and deliver its services is limited by its financial income. So, any donation that you may choose to make will help maintain that capacity. Your cheque, bank draft or money order, in any currency, should be made payable to "Nature Refuge Landholders’ Association (Queensland) Public Fund", and posted to: The Treasurer, NaRLA, P.O. Box 3616, South Brisbane, Qld. 4101 Australia.

Sponsor some aspect of NaRLA’s operations.

Sponsorships of NaRLA’s advisory, environmental assessment and monitoring, and educational services would be particularly helpful to us and would provide good opportunities for public exposure of the sponsor’s support of NaRLA and practical forms of nature conservation.

Encourage people to use NaRLA’s services.

The more people who use our services, the greater the beneficial impacts on nature conservation and the more widely known and appreciated our work will become. This is particularly the case with our educational services. If you are a member, or have a friend who is a member of a professional or community organisation with an interest in the environment, nature conservation or just learning more about and experiencing the unique Australian flora and fauna, then encourage or get your friend to encourage the organisation to have NaRLA run an educational program custom-designed specifically to meet the organisation’s needs.

Encourage your landholder friends to join the thousands of other landholders in Queensland who have committed to nature conservation programs.

The Nature Refuge, Voluntary Conservation Agreement and Land for Wildlife programs in Queensland offer alternative ways of contributing to and benefiting from nature conservation on private lands. These programs differ from each other in various ways and so offer landholders choices between different levels of commitment and benefits. Nature Refuges in Queensland range in area from less than one hectare to hundreds of thousands of hectares, so it is the nature conservation values of the land that count, not size. However, irrespective of which of these programs landholders join, if they become members of NaRLA, they have access to the full range of NaRLA’s services and other benefits of NaRLA membership.

Talk to your Local Government and local Chamber of Commerce about NaRLA.

Encourage your local community leaders to contact NaRLA and find out how NaRLA may be able to help them help their local community to benefit socially and economically from nature conservation-related activities in their area.

Donate land to NaRLA.

One of NaRLA’s aims is to procure a sizeable piece of land with high nature conservation qualities that can be developed as a demonstration model of effective integration of management for successful nature conservation in conjunction with a variety of different primary production and small business enterprises. This project will take some years to complete, so the earlier a suitable parcel of land can be procured and the project launched the better. At this early stage of NaRLA’s development, all of our available financial resources are being devoted to the delivery of our badly needed services. Consequently, unless a generous benefactor donates suitable land, the launching of the Model Land Management Project may be delayed for some years.

Offer us your suggestions.

NaRLA does not have a monopoly on good ideas! If you have a practical suggestion on how NaRLA’s services or activities could be expanded or improved to facilitate nature conservation and biodiversity on private lands more effectively, we would like you to tell us about it.

Get a NatureRefuges.com email address.  

If you don’t qualify for membership of NaRLA, you can signify your support for NaRLA and its goals to your friends and associates through your email address. It beats bumper stickers for geographic reach!  If you would like to have a NatureRefuges.com email address, let us know.