Green group teams up with Forest and Bird
AN INVITATION to talk to a school group has led to a fruitful long-term alliance for the Lower Hutt branch of Forest
and Bird. Three years ago committee member Bob Connal gave a talk to students at Naenae College about some of the society’s work. Around the same time,
students from the school formed a Green Group and the link with Lower Hutt Forest and Bird began. Today the group has some 30 to 40 members who raise money for conservation
projects, promote recycling and organise meetings to hear speakers on environmental topics. This year the group organised a Green Week at the school with mufti days and a Green Dance (even the hall was decorated in green) to raise funds for Forest and Bird. A cheque for $847 for the Lower Hutt branch was the much-appreciated outcome. In return, the branch has taken members of the Green Group for a tour of the branch’s restoration work on Somes Island and organised special plantings at the school using surplus seedlings from the Somes project.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 282, 1 November 1996, Page 10
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