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Landcare Week Champion Stories! - Urban Bushland Initiative

  • 1.  Landcare Week Champion Stories! - Urban Bushland Initiative

    Posted 13-08-2024 12:09
    Edited by Gabrielle Stacey 16-08-2024 18:15

    Urban Bushland Initiative (UBI) are an exciting Melbourne based group led by a dynamic group of people who are all under 30 years of age. They make sure the planting days are volunteer centric – with good coffee (it is Melbourne after all), food and entertainment being provided for free at all events.
    United by a determination to instigate change at a local level they focus on getting volunteers to events and getting plants into the ground.
    The group is quick to embrace technology, whether it's a clever social media awareness campaigns to get volunteers along to planting days or using emerging 3D-printing technology [https://theconversation.com/urban-owls-are-losing-their...] to create an artificial breeding hollow to precisely fit the shape of the Sydney blue gum (Eucalyptus saligna) tree for the threatened powerful owl.
    This amazing cutting-edge technology has made homes fit for an owl!
    Read more about UBI here.

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    Millie
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