For only $10, you can help green the Hill!
Travellers to Broken Hill have a wonderful time once here, admiring the stark beauty of the Outback. To get here they will have travelled great distances. The carbon footprint of their journey getting to Broken Hill is not small. We’re going to invite our travelling visitors to give us the means to ensure our beautiful, but harsh and vulnerable, environment is as good as it can be. A voluntary donation of funds to assist us grow native vegetation for planting in our Imperial Lakes Nature Park or in association with one or other of our Greening the Hill Mk2 projects in other locations, such as in Broken Hill’s reserves or public parks, is proposed. A specific offset programme for travellers to and from Broken Hill, watch out video here. 1 seedling planted for each $10 donated! |
Not just trees – plants of all types and sizes
In an arid zone locale like Broken Hill, Landcare Broken Hill expects that a range of preferred plant options will be offered to the traveller for selection. All the plants should be from the region – tried and tested for natural resilience to survive our harsh environment. The plants will not be restricted to trees, they could bushes or even ground covers like Sturt Desert peas.
The biodiversity of our region is rich and diverse. That diversity should be reflected in the range of plants on offer to the traveller to select. It would be fatal to the programme to offer travellers inappropriate plants that might be vulnerable to the harsh conditions. Nothing would destroy the reputation of the initiative for plants to be seen to fail and die. So careful plant selection will be a key to this initiative succeeding.
Where will the plants be planted?
In partnership with the Council, Landcare Broken Hill will identify the many reserves and parks within the City and its immediate region that would benefit from new plants being planted in them.
The traveller will be given the option to express a preference where their plant might be planted. They might have had an interesting time at the Riddiford Arboretum; they might have had a thrilling walk around the Sundown Trail; they might have experienced an inspirational botanical talk in a guided tour of a part of the Regen Belt; they might have walked up to the Sculpture Symposium and been awestruck viewing the sunset from there; or they might have had a relaxing time in Sturt Park.
The concept is to foster a relationship between the visitor and their chosen plant and the reserve/park they have preferentially nominated. Landcare Broken Hill hopes that relationship will establish a connection that is maintained when they leave the City. For some travellers, it might provide a reason to return to the City sometime later to see how the tree they purchased and donated is progressing. Or it might provide a reason for the traveller to return to the City to revisit the reserve or park in whiich they had a memorable experience and which they chose to improve or safeguard by their plant/tree being planted there.
Modern technology might provide a means of ongoing tracking – monitoring from afar – by a GPS based smart phone Ap, so that the visitor can electronically revisit the reserve or park and receive a report on how Landcare Broken Hill is progressing in protecting or improving that part of Broken Hill’s environment.
In an arid zone locale like Broken Hill, Landcare Broken Hill expects that a range of preferred plant options will be offered to the traveller for selection. All the plants should be from the region – tried and tested for natural resilience to survive our harsh environment. The plants will not be restricted to trees, they could bushes or even ground covers like Sturt Desert peas.
The biodiversity of our region is rich and diverse. That diversity should be reflected in the range of plants on offer to the traveller to select. It would be fatal to the programme to offer travellers inappropriate plants that might be vulnerable to the harsh conditions. Nothing would destroy the reputation of the initiative for plants to be seen to fail and die. So careful plant selection will be a key to this initiative succeeding.
Where will the plants be planted?
In partnership with the Council, Landcare Broken Hill will identify the many reserves and parks within the City and its immediate region that would benefit from new plants being planted in them.
The traveller will be given the option to express a preference where their plant might be planted. They might have had an interesting time at the Riddiford Arboretum; they might have had a thrilling walk around the Sundown Trail; they might have experienced an inspirational botanical talk in a guided tour of a part of the Regen Belt; they might have walked up to the Sculpture Symposium and been awestruck viewing the sunset from there; or they might have had a relaxing time in Sturt Park.
The concept is to foster a relationship between the visitor and their chosen plant and the reserve/park they have preferentially nominated. Landcare Broken Hill hopes that relationship will establish a connection that is maintained when they leave the City. For some travellers, it might provide a reason to return to the City sometime later to see how the tree they purchased and donated is progressing. Or it might provide a reason for the traveller to return to the City to revisit the reserve or park in whiich they had a memorable experience and which they chose to improve or safeguard by their plant/tree being planted there.
Modern technology might provide a means of ongoing tracking – monitoring from afar – by a GPS based smart phone Ap, so that the visitor can electronically revisit the reserve or park and receive a report on how Landcare Broken Hill is progressing in protecting or improving that part of Broken Hill’s environment.
Will you support Trees for Travellers?
With only $10 you can invest in a greener Broken Hill and a healthier environment! Email us for more information. LandcareBrokenHill@gmail.com |