It is our mission to empower and enable all Australians to play important roles in saving our wildlife and reversing the impacts of climate change. Odonata develops innovative ways for everyone to get involved in taking action for nature. We address multifaceted challenges facing our wildlife with new solutions and collaborations for biodiversity resilience.
OUR WORK
• SANCTUARIES: Protecting and breeding our threatened wildlife now
• RESEARCH: Knowledge creation for and evidence to guide better decisions for a better future
• BUSINESS: Inspiring environmental entrepreneurs and businesses to integrate nature into operations
• CORRIDORS: Supporting the connection of landscape scale wildlife corridors.
Odonata is an environmental charity
Since 2016, Odonata has catalysed over $63million that has protected over 49,000ha of habitat, engaged with 7 First Nations groups, worked with hundreds of businesses, farms, entrepreneurs and citizen scientists.
Odonata has managed programs for multiple threatened species. We have been instrumental in changing the extinction trajectory of both the Eastern Quoll and the Southern Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby, there are only 170 of these wallabies left in existence. Our work has down-listed the Eastern Barred Bandicoot from extinct in the wild to endangered, and also established Australia’s leading Bush Stone-curlew breeding program.Odonata has created a wealth of successful sanctuaries and nature based businesses.In 2022, we delivered the Victorian phase of the Great Australian Wildlife Search, one of the world’s largest citizen science projects, which used the latest eDNA technology to map the distribution of wildlife across the state.