The Foundation has had a long-standing interest in projects that improve the understanding of our environment, and which take active steps to protect or restore our natural heritage.

Through long term relationships with Zoos Victoria and the University of Melbourne, the Vizard Foundation has been able to make significant contributions to the protection of the last remaining tract of Yarra Valley forest floor, to agricultural and epidemiological research, to the restoration and protection of environment that is important to Indigenous Australians, and to the collection and distribution of base data on the health of Victorian wildlife populations.