Saffire Freycinet has committed to donating $500 from each of the next one hundred bookings to restore habitat on Kangaroo Island, to the value of $50,000 in the wake of devastating bushfires around the nation which have impacted a number of Australia's group of luxury lodges, particularly Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island.

As an island community that also thrives on natural wilderness, biodiversity and tourism, the funds will be channeled directly to Nature Foundation SA's new fundraising appeal, the Wildlife Recovery Fund, which focusses on habitat recovery in Kangaroo Island's national parks and other fire-affected areas. The work carried out from this fund will be critical in the rehabilitation and survival of the island's unique wildlife such as the endangered glossy black cockatoo, the disease-free koala population, and the critically endangered Kangaroo Island dunnarts, to name a few. This will in turn support the vitality of Kangaroo Island's tourism industry and ensure that future generations are able to experience native island fauna in the wild.

Saffire Freycinet holds conservation and protection of biodiversity close to its heart, having worked for the last six years in close conjunction with Wildcare Tasmania, DPIPWE and the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program, and Menzies Research Institute Tasmania by housing a healthy insurance population of Tasmanian devils at Saffire, as well as housing retired breeding devils in a free-range enclosure. As well as contributing an annual donation of $20,000 to this fund, which is currently funding a vet at Menzies for 2 days a week for research into the Devil Facial Tumour Disease, Saffire encourages guests to 'adopt a devil' through direct donations to the wildcare fund, https://wildcaretas.org.au/wildcare-news/wildcare-saffire-devil-research/. The development of a successful vaccine and the rehabilitation and monitoring of over a hundred healthy devils back into the wild are just some outcomes of the Tasmanian devil research conducted by the Menzies team through this partnership. 

For more information about the goals of the wildlife recovery fund, visit https://www.naturefoundation.org.au/support-us/wildlife-recovery-fund