In 2019, we worked with four amazing business to address the challenge: How can we better conserve nature, and increase the protection of threatened species and their survival in the wild?

Learn more about each team and their business below. 

Edgars Greste, Susannah Kable
Grow Love Project

Grow ​Love Project advocates for a healthy, bio-diverse and sustainable Australian food system. The team educates, inspires and connects farmers with customers to grow the movement towards eating for healthy people and a healthy planet.

Martin Collings
Charopy
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Charopy solves the problem of contamination in recycling bins and works with primary schools to make recycling more fun. Charopy has also raised awareness of NSW threatened species in schools, through their 'Build Your Own Colony' game. 

Dave Brook
OwlBnB
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Dave makes habitat, every day - for any native animal, anywhere that's safe for them. To make sure 'No owl shall remain homeless', he is exploring ways owls can  safely live, hunt and reproduce in agricultural and urban environments. 

2019 WILDLINGS

Jessie Panazzolo
Lonely Conservationists
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Jessie created Lonely Conservationists to help conservationists thrive. With almost 2000 conservationists in her community, Jessie believes there is enough human power to conserve the 60% of threatened species impacted by agriculture across the planet. 

Camille Goldstone-Henry
Xylo Systems

“We started off with the questions, what does your 2040 look like and over 9 weeks we have been given the tools and concepts to help us take our ideas into a business model to make that 2040 vision a reality”

Aimee Bowman and Holly Newman
Planet Warrior Education
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Mark Gardener
Farm Environmental Profit and Loss Accounting

David Flood, Kate Torgersen
Beyond the Fairway

Georgie and Bruce Ivers
Trees For Australia
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 In 2020, the Wild Idea network expanded to over 70 start-ups, who participated in an intensive 6-month coaching program. Six finalists were selected from the group and they received additional coaching and networking opportunities. You can read more about the program here, or find out more about the top six contestants, below. 

Majell Backhausen, Simon Harris & Hilary McAllister
For Wild Places
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2020 WILDLINGS

Wild Idea acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we live, learn and work. We celebrate their continuing cultural, social, environmental and economic connection to land, sea, and community, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

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with support from The NAB Foundation, NSW Government Saving Our Species Program and CJ Arms. 

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