Mission: Healthy Landscapes
What if Our environment was optimised for risk reduction?
We aim to halve hazard exposure in Australia’s 50 most fire and flood prone regions by 2025.
Healthy landscapes are intrinsically linked to resilient communities. Our relationship with landscapes needs to be adaptive, sustainable, and locally focused, to support our economy – especially through agriculture and tourism – and conserve and protect Australia’s rich cultural, historical and natural value for future generations. Australia’s forests also play an important role in capturing and storing carbon.
Fire and flood are necessary for the health of Australia’s landscapes. They are critical ecological processes that enable many of Australia’s ecosystems to function, supporting regeneration and new growth. This important role of fire has been long understood by Indigenous peoples, who have used “rightway fire” to promote positive ecological and cultural outcomes for millennia.
Today, the increasing severity and frequency of fire and flood disasters threatens the delicate balance between the ability of fire and water to have a positive impact on the environment and the devastating ecological destruction they can cause. Resilience-based active land management seeks to achieve this balance.
Healthy Landscapes mission video
Landscape Knowledge
Conducting research to understand flora and fauna needs before, during and after a disaster to inform resilience planning.
Landscape Action
Measuring and applying locally adapted land management practices which further build local knowledge and skills and create an evidence base.
Landscape Investment
Using ground sensors, drones, aerial and satellite technologies to monitor and analyse how landscapes respond and regenerate after disasters.
“Conservation International has been proud to support the Minderoo Foundation’s Fire and Flood Resilience initiative from day one. Climate change has caused extreme weather events to become both more frequent and more intense, and our communities must become more resilient in response. The Resilience Blueprint offers a promising way forward by combining scientific insights with partnerships across a wide range of sectors.”
Chief Executive Officer, Conservation International
“Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment thanks Minderoo Foundation for their collaborative approach to lifting our national resilience across the natural environment. We can only achieve our national objectives with deep and ongoing collaboration across government, research, industry and philanthropy.”
Threatened Species Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment
“Deloitte Australia is excited to collaborate with Minderoo Foundation’s Fire and Flood Resilience initiative to drive actions to mitigate disaster risk. Our experience in sustainability, resilience and risk management among other areas positions us well to support disaster resilience in Australia. We look forward to continuing to work with Minderoo Foundation.”
Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte Australia
“TURNER is thrilled to partner with Minderoo Foundation’s Fire and Flood Resilience initiative, recognising the importance of innovation across all environments including the built environment. Extreme fire behaviour requires new approaches and the collective that has come together to inform the Resilience Blueprint and missions provides a great springboard for change.”
TURNER
“The Australian Energy Market Operator welcomes the opportunity to team up with Minderoo Foundation’s Fire and Flood Resilience initiative to help ensure that our energy system can withstand the devastating effects of fires and floods as we continue to experience changing climate conditions.”
“IUCN applauds the work of Minderoo Foundation’s Fire and Flood Resilience initiative. Building fire and flood resilience on this scale can only be achieved through global collaboration. We are thrilled to be a part of this esteemed group and look forward to contributing to the next stage of this initiative, to drive generational change within our natural environment.”
General Director, International Union for Conservation of Nature
Our missions
Fire Shield
Reducing the impact of fires through better detection, information sharing, prediction and response.
Resilient Communities
Lifting resilience in vulnerable communities through access to support and resources.
Healthy Landscapes
Optimising for risk reduction and natural ecosystem resilience.