The rainforest restoration project at Hastings Public School is coming along in leaps and bounds, thanks to the Port Macquarie community.
Last week the Year 6 Environment Ministers hosted a visit by the president of the Friends of Kooloonbung Creek Nature Park (FKCNP).
Olivia Brangwin and Callum Johnson thanked Dave Comish for his group’s generous donation of 10 information signs to the school rainforest project.
With funds from the school P&C for new signposts, the Environment Friends installed the new signs along the rainforest path for all students to learn more about rainforest trees and native animals.
Earlier last month, a resident of Crestwood Estate donated a Wollemi Pine to the school.
A display poster in the nearby hallway gives students some information on this rare 200-million-year-old species that has been around since before the time of dinosaurs, but was only discovered in Australia in the 1990s.
At the start of the year, Port Macquarie Landcare volunteers started regular working bees on the school rainforest regeneration site.
A working bee was also held in the rainforest on World Environment Day for school families.
Thirty-three people (including students, parents, staff and neighbours) attended a busy Sunday morning of chipping green waste, spreading mulch, removing weeds and collecting rubbish.
Two days later, the site was inspected by the NSW Minister for Education Adrian Piccoli and Member for Port Macquarie Leslie Williams.
Landcare volunteers will be hosting guided tours of the school rainforest project during the school fete festivities on Saturday, August 20, between 10am
and 2pm.
