Community Tree Planting: Trees 4 Resilience - Climate Action

Come join us for a Community Tree Planting Day on Saturday 29 November from 1:30pm! We aim to plant 350 native plants on a Glenview property. This is grassroots climate action at it's finest! The trees planted will sequester tonnes of carbon out of the atmosphere over the next 20 years and provide shade, oxygen, food, shelter and landscape resilience to extreme weather events.

This event will be undertaken on private property, and we will disclose the location after you register. Street parking is limited, and we ask that where possible, you meet at the MRL nursery for car pooling or being shuttled across to the site (about a 5min drive from MRL nursery). Please arrive to MRL carpark just after 1pm, so that we can ferry across to the site for a 2pm start.

Tools will be provided. We do ask that you bring along your own gloves if you have them, as well as sun safe clothing, a hat, enclosed shoes and a water bottle (refills will be available on site).

Light refreshments will be provided.

This tree plant is part of our Trees4Resilience program. Trees4Resilience is MRL's climate action program which is kindly supported by the Queensland Government's Sustainability Action Grants program-supporting Community Climate Action. MRL is also contributing 200 plants from our BirdLife Grant - focussed on restoration and protection of habitat for the Glossy Black Cockatoo.

A special shout out also goes to Elliot Strudwick from Hollows for Wildlife for also contributing trees for this planting. He has pledged to put a tree in the ground for every tree that cannot be saved, and needs to be cut down, from his local environmental arboring business. https://hollowsforwildlife.com.au/

Trees4Resilience is Mooloolah River Landcare's 3 year program to help our community take climate action by planting native trees. The aim was to get 30,000 trees into the ground in local schools, home gardens and public spaces - and we have achieved more than this already!!

Trees help reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions by providing carbon capture and storage as well as reduce peak energy demands by providing shade and cooling and making our communities more resilient to extreme weather. Another wonderful side-effect of planting native trees is increasing biodiversity by helping our native animals by providing habitat.