Environmental Education

As the seasons change so do the plants, and the people that care for them. TIN's seasonal sojourn continues and what's been happening is at TIN is here in the Autumn 2010 TINformation...happy reading.

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The Summer TINformation has arrived before the heat is on, see how the year wrapped up and ponder your role in the yer to come

This year Landcare For Youth (L4Y) funding was granted to the Lake Macquarie Landcare Network by the Environmental Trust. Trees In Newcastle is delivering the three year project targeting all ages of youth from preschool to University to become more involved in on-ground projects and developing a youth based network across the city.

Are you involved in a youth based group that would like some support to develop and implement an on-ground project? Do you have some youth that would like to take a leadership role in their school or community? Contact TIN for a chat so we can lend a hand, it doesn't cost the earth and it may well save the planet.

Increasingly, property owners are expressing interest in growing native tree species as street trees, park trees, shelter-belt plantings, wildlife habitat zones, riparian restoration corridors, and, occasionally, as farm forestry projects.

There is little regional information available on urban forestry/farm forestry projects incorporating rainforest cabinet timber trees, and land-holders embarking on such a project locally would be pioneering this land use.

Nature is all around us, the flowers in bloom, the birds in the bushes, the bugs in the blossoms. Stopping to look and make a note of what we see helps us to follow the changes in the months, the seasons and over the year.

This nature watch diary has been put together with little people in mind to help them see the changes in the natural world around them and to record what they see.