GS Kidd School students just beat the rain on Friday as they planted 100 trees donated by North West Local Land Services on school grounds.
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The trees were funded through the federal government’s Brigalow Nandewar Biolinks Landscape Project, which saw 10,000 species distributed to schools and landholders across the north west.
The project’s vision is to “establish, restore and protect crticial native vegetation corridors linking the tablelands, slopes and plains”.
Species planted at the school included wilgas, native olive, belahs, wonga vine and a variety of small eucalypts.
GS Kidd School’s Vicki Urquhart said the tree donation would help with the facility’s beautification project.
“We are still developing the grounds of our beautiful school, so these trees are perfect to aid in our beautification project,” Mrs Urquhart said.
The tree planting day coincided with Schools Tree Planting Day on Friday.
As schools around the country took part in School Tree Planting Day on Friday, Gunnedah High School was doing its bit.
The Human Society and its Environment (HSIE) faculty is incorporating Year 9 and Year 10 geography skills and citizenship values into classroom experiences.
Students will research and plan the appropriate planting of gum trees as a koala habitat in addition to wildlife corridors.
About 400 trees were planted at Gunnedah’s Community Tree Planting Day on Sunday.
The event coincided with National Tree Day.
Gunnedah Urban Landcare Group, in conjunction with Gunnedah’s Project Koala, held the tree day along Blackjack Road as part of a campaign to strengthen tree corridors and add to the biodiversity of the area.
About 26 people turned up to lend a hand, planting, staking and watering koala-friendly gums along with other species donated by Local Land Services.
Participants in Jobs Australia Gunnedah’s Certificate II in Horticulture had already helped the project get well under way over the past eight weeks.
Jobs Australia Gunnedah trainer and assessor Belinda Milgate said together with Gunnedah Urban Landcare Group, they had planted more than 600 trees and helped with pruning and treating weeds.
She said the project would have a “significant impact” on local flora and fauna.
National Tree Day started in 1996 .
Since then, more than three million people have planted 21 million trees and plants.
