Located in 27 acres of lush rainforest and native eucalyptus-rich bushland in Queensland, Currumbin Wildlife Hospital is an integral part of the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. The area is now a heritage-listed zoological garden, home to native mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians and more.

Since its opening, the sanctuary and the hospital, have been able to survive and thrive thanks to the enthusiastic and generous support of the local community and the development of ecotourism. However, funding is needed more than ever due to the increasing number of hospitalized patients and the increasing cost of operating facilities.

The large and costly expenses required to treat such diverse wildlife include drug provision, medical equipment, site maintenance, administrative staff, food, and disease operating costs. hospital, labour and resources to release them into the wild. 

In recent years, the average number of animals hospitalized has increased to 14,000 per year, with an average cost of $120 each, while the typical cost for a koala patient is more than $7,000. 

At Rewards4Earth we are very grateful for the hard work the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital does to help, protect and restore our local and national wildlife. For some species, time is no longer a luxury afforded. Help us support the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital by downloading our Supporter App found on the App Store or Google Play. You can help make a difference using our App for your day-to-day shopping to earn Erth Points and contribute to the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital’s invaluable work as well as help us to Save the Planet via The Rewards4Earth Foundation when you spend at participating businesses.

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Zero Positive is a non-profit, first-of-its-kind program for reducing emissions. As endorsed by the UN, the Program has been designed to give schools and their communities the resources, instruction, and support they need to begin the journey toward achieving net-zero emissions targets while becoming environmentally positive. Zero Positive for Schools is a global initiative to help schools reduce their carbon footprint. This initiative aims to create a positive impact on the environment and its people. The initiative aims to promote sustainability among students and teachers by introducing them to environmental issues and solutions.

It is a program that works to make schools more environmentally friendly, and we’re proud to support it! The initiative focuses on raising awareness about environmental issues in schools and encouraging children to be more mindful of what they can do to help the planet. As an organization that believes in the importance of both learning about the world around us and making an impact on it, we feel very strongly about this initiative. The program is designed to help students learn how they can contribute to their school’s greening efforts by providing them with tangible, readable data. Real energy data is used by the Zero Positive initiative to help educate and empower students and educators. Students can monitor their progress in lowering their emissions and improving their sustainability with the help of their metering equipment and data collection platform.

We love that this initiative focuses on giving children a better understanding of how their actions impact the environment and how they can make positive changes by recycling or reducing their waste at school. We hope that through our partnership with Zero Positive for Schools, we can help educate students all over Australia about environmental sustainability and encourage them to continue making positive changes after they graduate from high school! For this reason, we have decided to support the Zero Positive for Schools program by making it one of our ECOs.
Every time you do the shopping and collect Erth Points through our Loyalty Program, we’ll donate a portion of those points to Zero Positive for Schools. This means that every time you use our app and collect Erth Points from your shopping, you can be assured that your contribution will go towards helping Australian schools.

Imagine if you could earn points every time you shopped—and then use those points to shop again. But it’s not just shopping: You can donate your points to help the environment and help save the planet. That’s what Rewards4Earth’s Erth Points App does.

Every customer in the world is encouraged to donate to the effort to SAVE THE PLANET by rewarding themselves for their purchases with Erth Points, which can be earned at any business that takes Erth Points as payment and used anywhere else that takes Erth Points as payment. And because these points are so valuable, they have been able to increase in value over time—meaning you’re not just earning something that will lose value; you’re earning something with real value

We believe that sustainability is a top priority for our future generations, and we want to help bring about this change through education. We believe that it is important for students to learn about recycling and composting at an early age so that they can become aware of how their actions affect the environment daily. It also teaches them how important it is to be responsible citizens of their communities by keeping their schools clean and free from litter.

We are excited to partner with Zero Positive for Schools because we think it’s an organization with a great mission, and we’re happy to help them out any way we can!

The Asian elephant populations can be found in 13 countries across South and Southeast Asia, sadly their numbers are fast declining with an estimated 30,000 – 50,000 left in the wild.  Both the Sumatran and Borneo elephants are heading towards extinction with less than 1,500 remaining. Elephants have large home ranges and with the unprecedented rate at which the rainforest is disappearing due to drought, forest fires, illegal logging and growing human populations, their future is bleak if we do not take immediate action.

Elephant migration plays a vital role in balancing out the natural ecosystem, they travel over vast areas of land in search of enough vegetation and water sources to meet their needs. Feeding on a variety of plants, they disperse seeds in their dung which help generate new growth ensuring their ecosystem constantly replenishes and evolves.  Elephant herd sizes consist of 20 or more predominantly female elephants with the matriarch being the eldest female. Known for their intelligence and empathy, elephant herds have an intricate social structure. The males tend to leave the herd at adolescence and many lead fairly solitary lives, though some come together in bachelor pods.  

The decimation of their habitat to pave the way for unsustainable agriculture, plantations, mining, human settlements and infrastructure is not only compromising their food sources, herd and migration routes, but is also placing the future of this migratory species at risk by creating human-elephant conflict as they compete for the same resources.

Sadly 70% of the time, elephants venture into unprotected areas, they are often found travelling through human-dominated areas resulting in the damage of crops, property and even human injury and death.  The outcome of such incidents is retaliation, often by poison, thus threatening their species even more.

As well as poaching elephants for their ivory, skin and meat, their population is also threatened by snares placed in the forest areas they cross.  Such traps are set by villagers to catch wild pigs or deer; however, elephants are becoming casualties, often dying from infected wounds.  In addition to these unfortunate facts, many elephants are still being exploited and experience lives of hardship in captivity due to unregulated tourism practices throughout Asia.

Family plays a vital role in herd behaviour and when one of these gentle giants is affected by man, it disrupts their social structure leaving them even more vulnerable.

The BKSDA Jambi Wildlife Ambulance Team, supported by the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), providing essential medical care to clean an infected wound

The Rewards4Earth™ Endangered Species Preservation Mandate is supporting The International Elephant Project (IEP) and together we are determined to help protect and restore the fast declining populations of the giant elephants of Asia.

In July 2021, The Rewards4Earth Foundation donated to the IEP.  We are impressed with the level of commitment that the IEP shows by ensuring our contributions work as hard as possible.  By scaling back their operational costs, more money is spent where needed – protecting elephant populations and their environment.

We will continue to support the IEP and need your help.

We do not ask for your donations, all we ask is that you sign up and collect Erth™Loyalty Rewards Points.

• The IEP run an Elephant Adoption program to monitor and protect elephants in the Bukit Tigapuluh Ecosystem in Sumatra and the Nam Pouy National Protected Area in Laos.  This is a great initiative where you can see first-hand how your contributions are helping the save the elephants one elephant at a time.

• The IEP has been supporting the Elephant Conservation Centre in Laos which includes the only elephant hospital in the area.  This initiative also sources and protects substantial amounts of land which allows for socialisation and natural breeding.  Donations are used to fund ranger teams who patrol and protect this 190,000-hectare ecosystem which houses both wild and rewilded Laos elephants.  Sadly, the COVID-19 Pandemic has severely disrupted the funds that they rely on from ethical eco-tourism resulting in vital elephant populations being at further risk from poaching and habitat destruction.

• With poaching and deforestation on the rise and declining fundraising donations, the Wildlife Ambulance teams are on the verge of scaling back their efforts or worse becoming extinct themselves.  Their teams on the ground consist of vets, who not only provide life-saving assistance to injured and displaced elephants in Sumatra but who also work tirelessly to train the next generation of vets.  They are in desperate need of $50,000 by the end of this year to be able to continue their vital work.

Fortunately for us, Seabin Project is well on its way to making a positive impact cleaning up our oceans.

To date, they have managed to remove over 3 million kilograms of marine litter from our oceans and captured approximately 58.4 million items of plastic using 1,100 Seabins strategically placed in controlled environments such as marinas, yacht clubs and ports around the globe. Seabins are currently collecting on average 2,800kg of marine litter per day worldwide.

Seabin Project is a collaboration between Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski that started back in 2013. With their typical Aussie surfing upbringings, a passion for all things ocean-related, a background in design coupled with a DIY attitude and a vision to clean up our deep blue oceans, the concept of a Seabin was created.

Seabin’s goal is to provide practical and tangible solutions to reduce plastics in our oceans.  In July 2020, Seabin launched the Sydney City Pilot as part of their ambitious 100 Cities Smarter Cities for Cleaner Oceans programme.  It took 5 years of technical research and development, along with 3 years of global data and monitoring to reach the final step to create this high impact, scalable model, which can be rolled out globally. This performance-driven initiative is now well underway targeting 100 cities across the globe with a focus on data monitoring, litter reduction, prevention and clean up.

Over the past year in Sydney, the Smarter Cities Programme removed over 16.5 tonnes of marine litter from only 16 Seabins in areas such as Manly Wharf, Rose Bay and Pyrmont.  The 30+ Seabin volunteers played a vital role in recording the data which has been a game changer. “We now have tangible data showing the desperate need to clean up our harbour waterways” said Scott, Marine Manager. According to the Seabin marine litter report released August 2021, the data collected can be used to influence decision-makers and policy, and reduce the prevalence of land-based litter upstream.

In September 2020 alone 1,537 kilos of marine litter was collected in Sydney.  Let’s put that into sporting terms – it is the equivalent of 33 football fields covered with plastic shopping bags.  The amount collected over the year-long Sydney pilot scheme was the equivalent of 351 football fields!

Take a second, close your eyes and visualise what that looks like.

The release of the 2021 IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is a warning and the message is clear, we no longer have the luxury of time on our side to repair the damage we have caused. Immediate action is required not only by large corporations and businesses but as a collective. We all have an obligation to our planet and future generations to do better, to live more consciously to preserve and ensure that our remaining ecosystems survive. Without our precious natural resources like clean air and water, life on earth will slowly cease to exist. It’s that simple.

We rely on our oceans not only for food, recreation, stabilising weather patterns globally but they absorb 50 times more carbon dioxide than our atmosphere and produce more than 50% of our oxygen.  Our Rewards4Earth Ocean Rejuvenation Mandate is committed to help The Seabin Project clean up our Oceans and realise their mission statement.

“The final chapter is ours to write. We know what we need to do. What happens next is up to us”.  David Attenborough

The relationship between Mother Earth and humans has reached its tipping point and we must collectively act NOW to change the current trajectory for the longevity of our planet and its natural resources for future generations.

We can no longer assume someone else will repair the damage.

At Rewards4Earth ™ we align ourselves with those who strive to make a difference in a world full of pollution. The sheer grit and determination that The Seabin Project team has to tackle such a massive global problem is impressive.

Seabin’s passion and success is already having a positive ripple effect throughout the world.  Let’s ensure they can continue putting a dent in the tons of plastic floating in our oceans by supporting them and spreading the word.  Their success is ultimately a huge win for the planet.   Please sign up for our Erth Point Loyalty System and together let’s clean up our oceans one Seabin, one Marina at a time.  Click here for more details.

We can no longer assume this is a future problem.

With less than 400 left living in the wild in Sumatra, Indonesia, they are now listed as Critically Endangered.  Sadly, we humans failed the Balinese and Javanese tigers who were pushed to extinction in the 1900s mainly through devastation of their habitat, poaching and traps. We call it the Human -Tiger Conflict.  The reality is tigers like so many other innocent species in the wild are not able to compete with greedy humans and unless we drastically change our ways and our demands on our natural resources, these majestic animals will become just mere pictures in books or Wikipedia pages.

Unfortunately for tigers, poaching alongside corruption is still rife despite being illegal under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.  The illegal trade for wildlife is worth billions on the black market.  With a lack of law enforcement and weak penalties for poachers despite being a protected species in Indonesia, tigers and other endangered wildlife remain at risk.

“This is the fastest, most comprehensive transformation of an entire landscape that has ever taken place anywhere in the world including the Amazon. If it continues at this rate all that will be left in 10 years is a few fragmented areas of natural forest surrounded by huge man-made plantations. There will be increased floods, fires and droughts, but no animals,” said Yuyun Indradi, political forest campaigner with Greenpeace south-east Asia in Jakarta.

The International Tiger Project (ITP) is a non-for-profit project for tiger conservation, rainforest protection and partnerships with the local community to help protect and save the entire ecosystem and biodiversity of habitats shared by tigers. Their vision is that all tigers live in the wild in secure and viable populations.  In order to help them achieve their vision, we fully support the ITP through our Rewards4Earth™ Foundation Endangered Species Mandate. We are determined not to see the Sumatran tiger end up like their extinct cousins – a lot more can and must be done with your help.

The ITP has set up Wild Protection Units (WPU) which are committed to monitoring, preserving and protecting this valuable land. They have dedicated anti-poaching patrols, wildlife monitoring and human–wildlife mitigation systems in place.

The WPU patrol work alongside local communities to educate them but also ensure tigers and humans co-exist in harmony.  The local communities who live and work on the land are also suffering as their land is swallowed up by large corporate conglomerates. Together the WPU and the locals work side by side to collect information on illegal activities, wildlife tracks and sightings.  The Ecosystem Monitoring Units have multiple camera traps. In order to correctly identify each tiger and monitor their movements, the tigers need to be filmed on both flanks to identify their markings. The traps themselves are expensive and need heavy duty chains and locks so they are not stolen.   Nothing is safe from greedy humans – it really is a jungle out there!  As well as using their advanced camera tracking, the foot patrols focus on the detection of, and more importantly, the prevention of poaching.  The teams patrol at least 15,000 hectares every month to uncover any evidence of illegal activities and to collect wildlife distribution data. On their travels, snares are deactivated and illegal activity is reported to the field office and passed on to law enforcement.

By providing such thorough data via their tracking methods, the ITP objectives have a positive knock-on effect to not only protect and preserve tiger numbers, but also other endangered species in the region by ensuring the rainforest is a safe haven and all who live under its majestic canape are able to thrive.

With the COVID-19 pandemic shifting our focus from the environmental movements to our own mortality, it is vital we do not turn our back on the planet and all species we are fortunate to share it with.

You can help by being part of the solution to help us Save the Planet.  Please click here.

The scale was unprecedented. The wrath of Mother Nature claimed 33 lives, destroyed over 3000 homes and devastated communities. 1.8 million hectares of forest and woodland areas ravaged by her intensity and according to the WWF, the loss and displacement of wildlife is estimated at 3 billion. This figure doesn’t include the ‘hundreds of billions‘ of insects that perished who also play a vital role in our ecosystem, if insects die we all die.

“It is ranked as one of the worst wildlife disasters in modern history,” said WWF-Australia CEO Dermot O’Gorman. In an infinitesimal moment in time, mere weeks, livelihoods, and our diverse ecosystem that the land and farmers rely on had been wiped out.

The Thirsty Cow initiative is part of our Rewards4Earth Foundation Local Cause mandate. We are committed to help Farmers and their communities rebuild their lives, restore the land and replenish our varied ecosystem from natural disasters that often sweep across our vast continent. Although the Bushfires may have been extinguished, we Australians rely on our Farmers who work tirelessly and, in some cases still need our help more than ever.

The 3 priorities we have in place to help those regional Australians affected are:

1. Immediate Need – providing shelter / housing / food / medical assistance and security
2. Personal Wellbeing – Mental health support and counselling
3. Economic Infrastructure recovery – Livestock recovery, fencing and rebuilding.

Our milk-producing states were hit the hardest by the fires. NSW and Victorian farmers suffered a huge loss of farmland and infrastructure damage. With the absence of La Niña, changing precipitation patterns and severe dry weather for two years prior to the bushfires, their pastures were scorched. Recovery and regrowth are challenged by the little water resources they have available. With livestock and farmland destroyed and the continued threat of drought, the road to recovery for farmers and our precious ecosystem will be long and difficult.

The long-term implications of a steep decline in biodiversity impacts our ecosystems that are crucial for our own global food production. According to the UN, wildlife numbers are declining at an ever-increasing scale globally.  When forests burn, the biodiversity that humans rely on for their long-term survival is threatened as forests are home to more than eighty per cent of all species of animals, plants and insects.

The smoke has settled since the devastation of the black summer fires, the cameras have stopped rolling and the media has focused people’s attention onto the pandemic. The generous donations from people all over the world have been put to great use, but sadly due to the COVID Pandemic, they have severely diminished. What we need now is NOT just donations, but a better way to fund these initiatives. We need to continue the good work we started to assist these communities as they continue to rebuild their lands, their businesses and their lives. We have a new model where you benefit as well as the community in need, it is all done with Erth ™ Loyalty Points.

We don’t want donations, we just want YOU to earn Erth ™ Points!

The Erth ™ Point system relies on new technology which helps local businesses gain loyalty from local customers. Their customers earn loyalty points which can be redeemed at participating businesses. The customers chosen ECO – Environmental and/or Community Organisation are also rewarded points and in addition, points are also given to our Rewards4Erth ™ Foundation which is committed to Saving the Planet.

In addition to supporting Thirsty Cow, The Rewards4Erth ™ Foundation has also supported by way of donations to the following non-for-profit charities:

• Lord of the Trees
• Seabin Projects
• International Orangutan Project
• Platinum Tree Co-op
• International Elephant Project
• International Tiger Project

Farming is one of the most physically and psychologically demanding occupations, often carried out by those we see as proud, strong pillars in our communities. Due to this view, farmers often struggle to ask for help.  The Rewards4Erth ™ Foundation is determined to be prepared for the next emergency in order to provide quick response teams to affected communities and in addition to this, we are working hard to develop vital interventions as a matter of urgency to provide ongoing support for farmers and their communities as levels of suicide, injury and stress are on the rise.

Earn Erth ™ Points, so we can continue our mission of saving the Planet, one ecosystem, one farmer, one community at a time.

Lord of the Trees is an initiative of environmental experts, scientists, engineers, animal protection agencies and indigenous communities that combine the knowledge and experience to facilitate reforestation projects worldwide.

The forestry and ecosystem restoration projects help to rehabilitate deforested land and expand wildlife habitat areas. All that is done by pre-programmed drones that are replanting seedpods into the ground. Drones are used in areas disrupted by agriculture or mining and destroyed by bushfires. Once on-site drones loaded with different seed types and equipped with advanced deployment features distribute the seedpods to affected areas. It allows restoring ecosystems on a vast scale and in a very short time comparing to manual seed planting. One drone pilot operating five drones can plant 432,000 seed pods in just 12 hours at a rate of 2 seedpods per drone per second, one person on foot would have to work full-time every day for a year to do the same job. Thanks to this technology, developed by a team of industrial designers and the help of the global community Lord of the Trees can achieve their goal of planting millions of trees around the world and creating new forests.

The Orangutan Project is a team of passionate wildlife experts, committed to protecting Critically Endangered orangutans. They have been working for over 20 years to save orangutans from extinction. It’s a vibrant, fast-growing and effective not-for-profit organisation that supports a variety of projects focused on protecting remaining fragmented orangutan populations including fighting deforestation and habitat loss. The projects funded by The Orangutan Project not only include direct orangutan conservation, such as orangutan rescue, rehabilitation and release programs but also forest habitat preservation and restoration, education, research and local community partnerships.

Within the next ten years, The Orangutan Project hopes to increase the number of wild orangutans under permanent protection to 8,000 to ensure all distinct populations of all subspecies of orangutan survive indefinitely. This requires them to help secure 450,000 acres of prime lowland forest and protect it with 180 Wildlife Protection Rangers.

The objectives of The Orangutan Project have many flow-on effects that both protect other Critically Endangered species, such as the Sumatran tiger, elephant and rhino, as well as indigenous and local communities.

Visit www.theorangutanproject.org to find out how you can adopt an orphaned orangutan or support their game-changing work to protect rainforests.

Orangutans are the most intelligent creatures on the Earth after humans, and they adapt to their environmental conditions by passing on culture from generation to generation. Their extinction is an individual story of horror as they are macheted and burnt alive as agricultural pest. Almost 80% of orangutan habitat has disappeared in the last 20 years, and we are losing over 6,000 orangutans a year.

Extinction in the wild is likely in the next 10 years for Sumatran orangutans and soon after for Bornean orangutans. Both species are classified as Critically Endangered according to the International UNION FOR Conservation of Nature (www.iucn.org)

Orangutan rainforest habitats are vanishing at an unprecedented pace as a result of deforestation and clearing of the land for pulp paper and palm oil plantations, with the remaining forests degraded by drought and forest fires. Every hour 300 football fields of precious remaining forest are ploughed to the ground across South East Asia to make way for monoculture plantations including palm oil. Palm oil is used in everything from food to soap and is found in over half all packaged items on our supermarket shelves.

Poaching orangutan infants and hunting for meat also threatens the species. Mothers are often killed for their babies, which are sold on the black market as pets. Rescued infants are rehabilitated at orangutan rescue centres, if you are willing to help, you can adopt an orangutan orphan here www.theorangutanproject.org/adopt/

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