Helping schoolchildren to create a living classroom.
We believe that giving students first-hand experience to improve biodiversity helps them understand how they can protect our environment, now and into the future.
ERA, in partnership with not-for-profit Eco Warriors Australia, helps run the Planting the Seed (PtS) program. The PtS program gives school students hands-on experience in revegetating areas of degraded or damaged native vegetation. Students also learn about the cultural heritage values of the plants and animals at their site and in the local area.
Our PtS program teaches students how to collect local native plant seeds, propagate and care for seedlings, prepare sites for planting, use native plants to revegetate sites and maintain sites after planting to ensure success.
Students use simple data collection tools to monitor revegetation success, and to record wildlife that the native vegetation attracts (“citizen science”).
Please see our FAQ or contact us if you or your local community group would like to get involved.
The PtS program is innovative in several ways:
- Students are involved in the entire process of revegetation, rather than only including students at the planting stage
- Focus on sustainability throughout the project (eg. using recycled materials for plant propagation to reduce waste)
- Strong cultural heritage focus to provide a link and improve understanding of the cultural history of native plants and wildlife found in the local area.
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