You can be a Hero2

If you are an employee
Employees can become Hero₂s with tax-deductible donations through their payroll:

If you are an business
Businesses can enter into a Hero₂ Corporate Partnership with the ARF and are encouraged to match employee payroll donations.

If you are an individual or fund-raising groups employee
Individual and groups can also become a Hero₂ from as little as $1 a day, through a one-off annual payment or a monthly payment with a credit card.

If you are an employee:

You can become a Hero₂ by making regular contributions to the ARF through your payroll – it’s quick and easy and results in an automatic tax deduction. (Talk to your HR or payroll department about this.)
Here’s how your payroll contributions will help our rainforests and fight climate change.
The Hero₂ program allocates 60% of your contributions to protecting rainforest, 30% to rehabilitation and revegetation and 10% to recovery of rare, threatened or endangered fauna.

For example a tax-deductible fortnightly contribution from your payroll of $40.00 to Hero₂ over 12 months;

Will protect 215m² of old growth rainforest
And extend the rainforest by planting 39 new native trees
With a $104 donation going towards helping recover endangered species

This makes your annual tax-deductible contribution to the Hero₂ program $1040 which will in turn help tie up approximately 33.05 tonnes of carbon in the biomass of the forest and over the life of the trees - and make a positive long-term contribution to the environment.

To double the impact we encourage you to talk to your employer about becoming a corporate Hero₂ and matching your contribution.

How your Hero₂ contributions can help Australia’s rainforests over 12 months

Your Hero₂ fortnightly contribution	60% of your contribution will protect old growth rainforest^	30% of your contribution will extend the rainforest by planting new trees*	10% of your contribution will help recover endangered species	Tonnes equivalent CO₂ tied up in the old growth forest and in the new trees over their life	Your Hero₂ annual tax-deductible contribution
$10	54m²	20	$26	10.70	$260
$15	81m²	29	$39	16.05	$390
$20	108m²	39	$52	21.40	$520
$25	134m²	49	$65	26.75	$650
$30	161m²	59	$78	32.10	$780
$35	188m²	68	$91	37.45	$910
$40	215m²	78	$104	42.80	$1040
$45	242m²	88	$117	48.15	$1170
$50	269m²	98	$130	53.49	$1300
$60	323m²	117	$156	64.19	$1560
$70	377m²	137	$182	74.89	$1820
$80	430m²	156	$208	85.59	$2080
$90	484m²	176	$234	96.29	$2340
$100	538m²	195	$260	106.99	$2600
$150	807m²	293	$390	160.48	$3900
$200	1076m²	390	$520	213.98	$5200

Three generations of the Ngai family, owners of ABC Tissues, enjoy a visit to their World Heritage listed rainforest block with an ARF Conservation Officer.

If you are a business

The Hero₂ program is an opportunity for all businesses and corporations to think globally and act locally while making a positive contribution to the environment.


	“A Hero₂ corporate partnership is much more than a fulfilment to corporate social responsibility; it is an effective investment in our rainforests and our planet - for now and future generations.” Lynne Cosgrove, Patron ARF.

Through Hero2 corporate projects – protecting, recovering and extending - the ARF works
with industry and businesses on a sustainable environmental investment that not only counters that organisations carbon excess but seeks to be a leveraged investment for everyone.

An ARF Hero2 project must:

give added value,
have a positive direct impact on the Australian landscape,
be measurable and dynamic, and improve with age and
must leave a positive legacy for the next generation.

For example: ABC Tissues – Our Hero₂s

ABC Tissue Products, an Australian owned tissue manufacturer established in Australia in 1985, with manufacturing sites located in NSW, QLD and New Zealand, has a commitment to the continued introduction of manufacturing procedures and policies designed to assist in the future protection of our environment. As part of its corporate strategy ABC is a signatory to the National Packaging Covenant. ABC stands for Australia Better Choice.

In 2007 ABC looked at the value of their environmental brand, Naturale. A toilet tissue
manufactured from recycled white office paper. They believed they had a responsibility to drive the recycled tissue segment to reduce land fill and felt a dynamic branding exercise with the ARF was the best way forward to show their continued commitment to leave only a positive impact on the environment.

ABC Tissues has purchased freehold Daintree rainforest for conservation, extending parts of the mega diverse global treasure through a 4,500 rainforest tree revegetation project and contributing to the operating costs of a cassowary hospital, through a royalty deal between the Foundation and ABC Tissues on product sales.