In 2025, the Fogarty Foundation formalised a partnership with Perth Zoo to support its Habitats for Wildlife program, a leading conservation education initiative that connects classroom learning with real-world environmental action. Through this partnership, we are helping to empower a new generation of young people to become active and informed stewards of the natural world.

Habitats for Wildlife is a year-long program that gives students full ownership of designing, building and monitoring a conservation project on their school grounds. From installing water dishes for local species to larger habitat transformations, students lead every stage of the process, applying science in practical and meaningful ways while developing critical thinking, teamwork, leadership and inclusion skills. The program is as much about building capable, confident young people as it is about the habitats they create.

The results in 2025 were inspiring. Across 23 schools more than 700 students in the Perth metropolitan area participated: projects included bird baths, frog bogs, lizard lounges, native bee hotels, quenda cabins, bandicoot bungalows and plantings to support local cockatoo populations. The impact on local wildlife has been tangible and measurable. Corellas have appeared in places they had never previously been recorded. Native bee populations are thriving, with brand new nests discovered. Willy wagtails are flourishing, with 67 recorded in a single day at one location. At Noranda Primary School, student Bush Wardens transformed a neglected garden bed into a haven for local wildlife, a small but powerful example of what young people can achieve when given the opportunity and the tools to act.

To read more about this partnership and the work being done by the Fogarty Foundation, read our full 2026 Report.

2026 Fogarty Report