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Wimmera Community and Environment Plantouts

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Wimmera Landcare Groups and Networks are asking for your assistance to help plant over 100,000 native plants during July & August.

What
  • Planting day
When Aug 15, 2009 12:00 AM to
Aug 16, 2009 12:00 AM
Where WIMMERA
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Upcoming community planting events provide opportunity for volunteers to contribute to the Wimmera's natural environment by participating in 4 large scale revegetation and planting events during July and August. 

Wimmera Landcare Groups are hosting community planting events over the coming months in an effort to reclaim and restore the regions important wildlife habitat by protecting existing natural environments and returning native vegetation to the wide Wimmera landscape.

Grampians to Little Desert biolink plantings start proceedings on Saturday July 4 at a site near Horsham affected by the recent fires and linked to previous plantings connecting vegetation to the Wimmera River. Volunteers can enjoy a BBQ lunch and a full days activities. PH 0427514502

Project Platypus  will host it's 10th annual community Plantout Weekend over July 18 and 19 at Elmhurst. This event has a strong focus on water quality improvement and provides the opportunity for volunteers to camp and enjoy a social Saturday evening after a full days work in the Upper Catchment of the Wimmera River system near Mt Cole. PH 03 53584410

Yarrilinks is a community event with a difference and invites city based migrants, local farmers and comunity members to mix, mingle and contibute to something much larger than a tree planting event. This is a great opportunity to learn from and teach others about rural community life in Australia and understand how others from around the world find themselves planting trees on Wimmera farms over the weekend of August 1st and 2nd. PH 0428922647

Project Hindmarsh will be held over the weekend of August 15 and 16. Based at Little Desert Lodge, Nature Park on the northern edge of the Little Desert near Nhill, the weekend offers the opportunity to camp or book indoor accommodation, provides all meals and a full evening program of music and local c information. Hindmarsh Landcare Network hosts the event and planting this year will take place in the northern part of the project area just south of Lake Albacutya. PH 03 53911811

For more information please contact Wimmera CMA 53821544
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