In 2018, Natura Education won the tender to develop and deliver the City of Gold Coast’s Botanic Gardens Education Program. This free, interactive, outdoor learning program for local school children (Prep to Year 12) encourages students to get hands-on with the Garden’s flora, fauna, environment and heritage, by reinforcing knowledge learned in the classroom and inspiring a life-long love of our natural environment. The primary school program offers 11 different programs which run for approximately one and a half hours each. The high school program is more tailored and covers a variety of hands-on activities around freshwater ecosystems, plant communities and the biodiversity in the Gardens.