Daimen Hardie and Liz Jaremyn Plant a Community Tree
Community Forests International plants trees donated to the village of Port Elgin by John Stuart of Nova Scotia. These trees will be planted to green the village and will eventually grow to replace many of the larger trees that have died off in the past couple of years.
The Village Council is very eager to foster a future of environmental awareness and is proud to have Daimen Hardie and Estelle Drisdelle of Community Forests International on their Environmental Development Committee. Community Forests International has managed to plant several trees in and around the community this year and has arranged to plant 100 trees in 2010.
Volunteer members of Community Forests International, and Estelle Drisdelle, Community Forest International’s Education Coordinator Canada joined up with Port Elgin Regional School to plant trees on school ground and community spaces. The trees were donated by Cornhill Nursery and were of species native to the Acadian Forest Ecoregion. The students that participated in the planting will participate in the Global Schools Link next fall, and will be connecting with other students from around the world to build a network of environmentally aware and empowered youth capible of facilitating positive world change.
Port Elgin is a rural community with a population of 451 citizens according to a 2006 census. By participating in the Global Schools Link, and in Community Forests International’s education programming, this rural school has been given an opportunity to expand its vision, and to establish connections with other global regions, bringing our global community into their classroom.
Kikunga participates in UN World Biodiversity Day and ENO World Tree Planting Day by mobilizing the community in a tree planting field day. Several members of Community Forests Pemba, including Director Mbarouk Mussa Omar, and Education Coordinator Mike Tritchler were present for the event, in which over 2,000 seedlings were planted in order to provide a cleaner and healthier natural environment for the people of Zanzibar and ultimately the world.
Community Forests International was mentioned in Your Smith Falls Newspaper for their tree planting activities with Montauge Public School. An online version of the article is available here.
Community Forests International assisted Montague Public School in planting over 1000 seedlings on May 2, 2009. Montague Public School is going to participate in the Global Schools Link and connect to a school in Pemba, Tanzania to explore the effects of climate change on their regions.
Spearheaded by the Montague Development Committee, the planting was part of a community greening project that will see the creation of a naturalized green learning environment by restoring unused agricultural land into a forest ecosystem. The project will develop the school’s 59-acre plot into an outdoor classroom by restoring two wetlands and through the planting of thousands of trees, providing the students at this rural K-8 school with a green learning environment.
Montague Public School will be taking part in Community Forests International’s Global Schools Link, a cross-cultural learning initiative that will pair Montague Public School with Port Elgin Regional School in New Brunswick and Uweleni Secondary School in Pemba, Tanzania in order to provide participating students with a first-hand global understanding of climate change. This partnership will provide global youth with the tools necessary to combat climate change, uniting environmental activities like Montague Public School’s tree planting efforts to a network of similar initiatives by building a global network capable of facilitating positive world change.
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