FY25 has been a year of endings and beginnings at Pollination Foundation. While we celebrated bringing Ampliseed to a close, other initiatives began, growing from the seeds of ideas planted in months and years before.

Celebrating Ampliseed

When BHP Foundation invited us five years ago to build Ampliseed, a network connecting landscape-scale environmental resilience projects, we initially set out to build stronger projects, clearer strategies, and better data. Along the way, the deeper lesson became clear: relationships are a form of critical infrastructure. They move ideas, trust, and commitment through a system just as roads move goods or broadband moves information. Closing out Ampliseed, we’re more convinced than ever that knowledge becomes more powerful as it moves, carrying the seeds of inspiration needed to navigate complex challenges.

New beginnings

We carry these insights into our work with ReefTO, exploring a Traditional Owner Sea Country Alliance for the Great Barrier Reef. As the host organisation, we’ve contracted A$20 million to flow to this once-in-a-generation opportunity.

Partnering with ReefTO has been a learning journey for everyone. The leaders who first envisioned this Alliance have worked for 20+ years to bring this seed of an idea to life. Our partnership is strengthening our knowledge around the challenges and opportunities of First Nations stewardship of a world heritage icon, while elevating our corporate governance systems to a higher level of rigour and transparency.

The Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities Nature Credit Incubator also took a winding journey this year. Our align-and-explore phase revealed First Nations are keen to understand nature finance solutions—from enterprise funds and supply chain resilience models to insurance products. These models, alongside nature credit markets, will enable diverse revenue streams to flow to place-based nature solutions.

Planting seeds for the future

Finally, we embarked on a six-month process to design a forward-looking 2030 Strategy. From internal workshops to market testing and insight interviews with over 50 individuals and organisations, we moved from a “collective of projects” to a collective impact model, grounded in Seed, Grow, and Pollinate pillars. Our ‘stretch’ goal over the next five years: flow over A$600 million to Indigenous Nations restoring, protecting, and stewarding nature.

This year, we’ve made time to be creative, to think big, chunk ideas down into achievable impact, and to laugh and find joy with our partners, in nature. These are the things that really matter as we navigate the complexity of nature finance.

Thank you to everyone we’ve had the pleasure of sharing this year with. We’ve set a bold ambition for 2026 and we’re excited for the journey ahead.

Read more in our Impact and Learning Report below.

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