[Greens-Media] Greens support National Tree Day

[Amanda.Sharp at parliament.vic.gov.au]

Greens support National Tree Day 

Friday 26 July 2013

Greens MP for Southern Metropolitan region, Sue Pennicuik is supporting 
Planet Ark’s National Tree Day at a local school today and at Elwood Canal 
and Gardiner’s Creek on Sunday. 

National Tree Day is Australia’s largest tree-planting and nature care 
event. Each year around 200,000 people take part in National Tree Day 
events at thousands of sites organised by councils, schools, businesses, 
and communities across the country. 

"Today I will be planting trees with students from Malvern Primary School 
and on Sunday I’ll be helping out at Elwood Canal and Gardiner's Creek." 
Ms Pennicuik said. "I'm looking forward to meeting up with lots of local 
residents who also like to get outside, connect with nature and improve 
their local environment."

Participation in National Tree Day is fun and helps address important 
environmental issues like the loss of habitat for native wildlife, soil 
salinity and erosion, as well as being good for individual and community 
health.

"Aussies are spending more and more time inside and on-screen, 
disconnected from the natural world, but research studies from here and 
overseas show there are real benefits associated with spending time 
outside and in contact with nature," says National Tree Day Manager Debbie 
Agnew. 

It's also a milestone event this year, as Planet Ark prepares to plant the 
20-millionth seedling since the event began in 1996. "That’s a great 
achievement," Ms Pennicuik said.

To find out more about National Tree Day, please visit 
treeday.planetark.org, call the Hotline on 1300 88 5000.

For interviews, images, logos or further information about tree day sites 
in your area, please contact:

Sara McGregor                                   Sue Pennicuik MLC 
PR and Media Manager, Planet Ark                Southern Metropolitan 
Region
02 8484 7205 I pr at planetark.org                         0409 055 875 / 03 
9530 8399

For more information: National Tree Day http://treeday.planetark.org
Facebook.com/NationalTreeDay http://www.facebook.com/NationalTreeDay
Twitter.com/Planetark https://twitter.com/PlanetArk




///////************************************************************///////////////

Parliament of Victoria                                                                                                                    . 
Important Disclaimer Notice:


The information contained in this email  including any attachments, may be 
confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please 
notify the sender and delete it from  your system. Any unauthorised 
disclosure, copying or dissemination of all or part of this email, including 
any attachments, is not permitted. This email, including any attachments, should 
be dealt with in accordance with copyright and  privacy legislation. 
Except where otherwise stated, views expressed are those of the individual sender.