Benefits for Students Involved
TfS provides students with teaching and learning
opportunities so they can:
- develop horticultural skills
- build management skills
- gain a holistic view of ecosystems and tackle serious environmental issues
- enhance academic skills using the classroom resources provided
Trees for Survival is a nationwide programme involving 150 schools and approximately 5000 school children planting some 70,000 trees every year. These plantings have a huge benefit to New Zealand’s soil and water resources by:
- helping control soil erosion and safeguarding water quality;
- creating new habitats for native birds and other plants and animals;
- beautifying our environment;
- removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; and
- renewing a natural resource
TfS educates children in the role of trees in the natural environment and also gives them the opportunity to become involved in environmental restoration projects.
For a short video about TfS, go to the "About" page of the Trees for Survival homepage.
Why is the Tauranga Environment Centre involved?
We were asked to help co-ordinate schools in the Tauranga Moana region and currently assist the nine local schools involved in the programme:
- Aquinas College
- Bellevue School
- Bethlehem College
- Gate Pa School
- Maungatapu School
- Tauranga Girls College
- Rudolf Steiner School
- Te Akau ki Papamoa Primary School
- Omanu School
If your school would like to be involved, please contact Lydia at the Tauranga Environment Centre.