Maitland Green Corps Team - November 2006 to May 2007
Green Corps is an Australian Government youth development and environmental training program for youth aged 17 to 20. Green Corps gives young people the opportunity to volunteer to conserve, preserve and restore Australia's natural environment and cultural heritage.
Each Green Corps team consists of 10 young people taking part in a range of activities and experiences over 26 weeks. They each receive an allowance and take part in environmental and cultural projects mostly located in rural or remote areas.
Maitland City Council partnered with Northumberland Network to deliver the Maitland Green Corps Remnant Rescue Project from November 2006 to May 2007 providing project sites, tools and expertise to a Green Corps team.
Green Corps participants undertook bush regeneration activities at Morpeth Common, Tenambit Wetlands and melaleuca Ponds with the aim of enhancing informal fauna and flora corridors across the urban zone of Maitland. The crew undertook restoration activities at Glebe Cemetery, both within the cemetery grounds and the adjacent rainforest remnant and completed works at Francis Greenway High School to install a watering system in their greenhouse. The team also built garden beds, a potting table and a pergola at the Mai-wel Group Facility.
Conservation Volunteers
Conservation Volunteers has been operating throughout Australia since 1982 and is Australia's leading practical conservation organisation with more than 10,000 people volunteering to undertake environmetal works throughout Australia each year.
Volunteers undertake practical conservation projects for the betterment of the Australian environment including activities such as weed removal and tree planting.
Maitland City Council works with Conservation Volunteers Australia each year to provide sites for volunteers to undertake environmental works on. Sites which have seen the benefit of these volunteers in recent times include Brooklyn Park, Telarah Lagoon, Tenambit Wetlands and One Mile Creek.
The volunteers have undetaken such works as weed removal, native vegetation plantings and erosion control works.
Visit the Conservation Volunteers Australia website by clicking on the link below:
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