Students plant seeds of recovery for catchment regrowth

Bunbury students last week did their part to help protect an “ecological corridor” of the South West.

More than 150 students were at Tuart Brook to help plant 5000 native seedlings as part of the South West Catchments Council revegetation project in the proposed Preston River to Ocean Regional Park. Newton Moore Senior High School and Dalyellup College bush rangers and Bunbury Cathedral Grammar and Bunbury Home School Network students volunteered their time for the project.

Project manager Natalie Olsen said the students helped restore the Tuart Brook landscape by building on community revegetation work over the past two years.

“The students are doing an incredible job helping to bring back the bush,” Mrs Olsen said.

“Tuart Brook is an important ecological corridor and part of a 7km regional ecological linkage that connects the Preston River to Maidens Reserve and the ocean – a unique feature in the South West.”

Work over the past two years at Tuart Brook has included weed control, maintenance and fence installation to protect the area from activities such as four-wheel driving.

Thanks to the student project, the council is hopeful of a successful revegetation outcome this year.