For 25 years, students at the School for Student Leadership have been providing experiential education through environmental stewardship to hundreds of year nines from all over Victoria.
The Snowy River Campus is a state-of-the-art school in far East Gippsland.
It occupies 15 hectares and is now a Fire Wise Trial site.
This includes hundreds of plants (supplied by Moogji Aboriginal Nursery) and an information sign that outlines the critical role plants can play in fire behavior in regional locations.
Far East Victoria Landcare’s (FEVL) Fire Wise project aims to improve, share, test and demonstrate the understanding of how numerous species of indigenous (native) plants can be retained or planted in strategic locations around the built environment to better protect assets from bushfire and enhance local biodiversity.
“We are extremely excited about this project location,” Far East Victoria Landcare facilitator, Josh Puglisi said.
“The school has a long history of exposing students from all over Victoria to East Gippsland’s unique environment. “It is great to see students taking what they learned here, back to their home communities.”
The Fire Wise Project is funded by the Australian Government’s Preparing Australian Communities program in partnership with the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife (FNPW).
FNPW is an environmental charity organisation that has assisted communities in restoring and conserving Australia’s natural environment for more than 50 years.
To keep up to date with this project, look out for project updates on FEVL’s Facebook page and for further information on this project please email facilitator@fevl.org.au
This project received grant funding from the Australian Government through the Preparing Australian Communities local stream.
