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Trees for Survival is an educational and revegetation program, initiated and supported by the Rotary Clubs of Australia. The project originated from Rotary's concern for Australia's rapidly degrading environment and has achieved world- wide recognition under Rotary's Preserve Planet Earth initiative. TFS is a co-operative annual cycle of carers and land management groups working together to revegetate indigenouse landscapes by nurtuting seedlings to return to their original habitat. |
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Through its Trees for 2000 project, Trees for Survival project has two key objectives to combat this degradation problem:
* to increase the community's awareness of the issues surrounding land degradation and the importance of natural vegetation
* to foster a close link between revegetation groups, Rotary Clubs, Schools and other institutions involved with the shadehouse.
Trees for Survival has supplied many hundreds of thousands of healthy trees to revegetation groups and these have been planted in degraded areas of Australia. It also encourages those schools involved to grow native plants for local community beautification and benefit and to engage in many environmental projects such as waste recycling, testing of air and water pollution, care of endangered species.
The program enjoys the support of environment organisations (eg Greening Australia, Landcare and Dunecare groups), Federal and State government agencies, many local councils, business (eg Trans-Grid) and Catchment Management Committees and Trusts
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