4 March 2009

Strathfield Council’s popular Adopt a Park program returned on 25 February with 17 students from Homebush Boys High School lending a hand at Mason Park Wetlands.

The Adopt a Park program involves the adoption of parks throughout the Strathfield municipality with the aim of bringing the local community and the environment together by promoting environmental awareness and education through planting. 

Additionally the initiative gives students in our community an opportunity to learn more about enhancing the local environment with native plantings, bushcare and the importance of biodiversity. The students will then plant local native grasses, shrubs and trees propagated at Strathfield Council’s nursery.  

Adopt a Park sites in 2008 have included Airey Park, Freshwater Park, Mt Royal Reserve, St Anne’s Reserve and last year over 1500 local native species were planted in the municipality.

Council extends appreciation to the local school community who are helping to promote the important of sustainability through their school curriculum program and through their ongoing support of Council’s Adopt a Park program. 

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