Trees for Life ‘Go Native on Tour’ For National Tree Week

04/11/2008

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Next week (Monday 24 – Friday 28 November), in celebration of National Tree Week, Jersey Trees for Life are visiting schools, taking with them a trailer stacked with wildlife-friendly materials.

 

National Tree Week is the annual nationwide festival to mark the start of the tree planting season, and the ‘Go Native on Tour’ visits, which are sponsored by Jersey Dairy, will involve fun conservation tasks, and are also designed to discover the native trees and wildlife that can be found in the grounds of each school.

 

The conservation tasks include preparing for over-wintering wildlife using logs, brushwood and recycled materials found in each school’s nature garden or playground.

 

Olivia Copsey, Education and Projects Officer for Jersey Trees for Life, said: “This project is a great chance to discover from the children about the trees and wildlife in their own school grounds and to add some new habitats and features to further improve the spaces for wildlife.”

 

During the week, Jersey Trees for Life will also be designing native tree planting schemes for the winter season, building dead wood habitats, bird feeders and wildlife friendly planters, and making hedgehog nesting boxes using wine boxes donated by Dunell’s and mini-beast houses from native plant material and setting up composters donated by the States of Jersey.

 

Jersey Dairy’s Head of Sales & Marketing, Christopher Journeaux, said: “It is important to educate young people in how to care for their environment, and that is why we are supporting this. Jersey’s dairy farmers are responsible for protecting and conserving the natural environment over large areas of the Island and this initiative has exactly the same objective.”

 

Schools being visited this week are Bel Royal, St Peter’s, Trinity, St Lawrence, Grand Vaux and Mont Nicolle. Four classes from each school will be joining the Trees for Life Team in four 45-minute sessions each morning.