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An environmental project
inspired by the children of Baldivis Primary School
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Baldivis Children's Forest
Conservation
Through Education |
Managed by local
children |
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BHP Billiton Nickel West Sponsored Activity Days
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BHP Billiton NiW Sponsored Activity days at Baldivis Children's Forest Join us in 2010
2010 Schools education program at the forest BHP Billiton Nickel West began sponsoring activity days in 2006 which included subsidizing the cost for students when they visited the Forest. This sponsorship has continued in 2009 and expanded to enable more students from many different schools to experience activity days at the Forest (Table 1). Table 1. Involvement of schools and community in activities at Baldivis Children’s Forest 2005-2009.
In 2009, activity days began in Term 2 and due to popular demand were also held in term 3. During the activity days participants weeded and planted a record 4,387 native seedlings, listened to fire safety talks (Singleton Volunteer Fire Brigade), studied fungi, soils, frogs, wetlands, Australian animals, bats, sorted macro-invertebrates, aged and mapped tuart trees in BCF, collected seed, created clay creatures to live in the bushland, sketched and painted flora in the Forest, listened to Aboriginal cultural stories and explored the forest with a guide, studied insects in different habitats, looked at the Forest under a microscope and created a sensory obstacle course. Participating schools and clubs in 2009 included;
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