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Your donation protects waterways and biodiversity by empowering young environmental leaders and the teachers who guide them.

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Empower the next generation to protect our waterways, biodiversity, and future

Because of you, real change is already happening. Thanks to the support of people like you, students across Australia aren’t just learning about environmental challenges, they’re taking action to solve them.

Earthwatch Australia empowers primary and secondary students to become environmental leaders through hands-on learning, citizen science, and real-world conservation projects.

Your donation helps equip young environmental leaders and the educators who guide them with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to protect our waterways, ecosystems, and biodiversity. We’ve already empowered more than 182,700 students in Australia to take action for our environment. Help us reach even more.

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Make a tax-deductible donation by 30 June to ensure your support is used where it's needed most. Your gift will maximise impact, empowering the next generation to protect our planet. Together, we can ensure that knowledge turns into action, and action leads to lasting impact.

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Equip a Young Environmental Scientist

Helps provide a student with hands-on experiences in water testing, biodiversity monitoring and wetland investigations.

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Support Pollution Reduction in Local Waterways

Supports a student‑led waste audit, plastics removal, erosion assessments and wetland action projects.

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Train a Water & Nature Ambassador

Funds a student to participate in a Kids Teaching Kids program, learning how water, ecosystems and biodiversity connect.

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Support a School Community

Help enable a school to access Earthwatch education programs, creating community-wide environmental stewardship.

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Why Environmental Education Matters

Environmental challenges like water pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change is growing. Solving them will require informed, empowered future leaders.

Through hands-on environmental education programs, students gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to take meaningful action within their communities.

Through school-based environmental education programs, students gain:

• Practical experience in water quality testing and biodiversity monitoring
• Skills to lead sustainability and conservation projects
• Confidence to drive community and environmental impact

From Student Challenge to Environmental Engineering

Taking part in the Earthwatch Student Challenge in high school gave me first-hand insight into how I could turn my passion for the environment into meaningful action. Working on real‑world environmental issues helped shape my decision to study environmental engineering and science at university.

— Harmony-tree Hansen, Undergraduate Engineer

Student Challenge Alumni 2022

Programs Your Support Makes Possible

Year 4-6

Kids Teaching Kids

Inspiring primary students to become Water Ambassadors through hands-on learning, peer-to-peer engagement and action projects.

Year 10-12

Student Challenge Fellowships

Our Student Challenge program empowers students to design and deliver solutions to real-world environmental issues through hands-on, in-field scholarships. Participants work alongside scientists, engaging in scientific fieldwork, gaining valuable conservation insights.