Cooler days and wet weather may encourage many people to stay indoors but for dedicated volunteers across Western Australia, the change in weather means it’s time to start planting. Across the State over coming months, hundreds of volunteers will plant thousands of seedlings in revegetation projects aimed at improving the environment.
Natural Resource Management Western Australia (NRMWA) Chair Jim Sullivan said it was thanks to the efforts of volunteers that revegetation can happen at the scale it does.
“The hours of labour put in by volunteers working to improve our environment is phenomenal,” Mr Sullivan said. “Without that volunteer labour, the task simply wouldn’t get done.”
Thousands of Western Australians will head out into the natural environment this weekend as the State celebrates WA Day.
The newly released Australia State of the Environment 2016 report makes for sobering reading. Our changing climate is providing big challenges as are the increased pressures on coastal development around urban centres and the extensive land use zone where grazing is a major factor in the loss of biodiversity.