Students get digging, planting on annual Tree Day
Posted Sep 21, 2015 12:32 pm.
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To the mark Tree Day 2015, students at O.S Geiger Elementary in Castleridge are learning outside, while beautifying their school yard.
A few years ago, Tree Canada decided there needed to be a planting day in the fall, much like Arbor Day in the spring.
The House of Commons proclaimed the day in 2011 allowing the kids at schools like O.S. Geiger Elementary in eight cities across the country to beautify their school yards while teaching them why it’s important to do so.
“There’s no better age to educated people about the value of trees than young people,” Gerard Fournier, with Tree Canada said, “It’s so important to get them exposed to nature at an early age, so that they can carry that respect for nature and the idea that nature requires some nurture for the rest of their lives.”
“They clean the air and they provide us food,” 12-year-old student, Palmer told 660 NEWS, “They make the environment better.”
The foundation responsible has done this in over 500 schoolyards in which they have planted more than 80 million trees since 1992.
