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A run-down parcel of land on the side of the Strzelecki Ranges has been transformed by a visionary landowner and Greenfleet.
Adam and Debbie Tyson’s property in southern Victoria was once covered with a mosaic of rainforest, including 90-metre tall Mountain Ash trees. As the agriculturalists and loggers moved into the region in the late 19th century, the land was cleared and less than a fifth of the original forest remains standing today.
“When I bought the land, it was overgrazed and run down with erosion and weeds. It had very little remanent vegetation left,” Adam explains.
The sparsely-forested property’s steep slopes and frequent heavy rainfall also made it prone to devastating landslides.
Since 2011, the Tysons and Greenfleet have planted approximately 14,880 native trees.
“We’ve seen many improvements over that time. The trees are thriving and there is a noticeable increase in birdlife,” Adam says.
“The trees are certainly helping with the erosion – and we haven’t had a landslide for a couple of seasons now.”
Find out more at www.greenfleet.org.au
A run-down parcel of land on the side of the Strzelecki Ranges has been transformed by a visionary landowner and Greenfleet.
Adam and Debbie Tyson’s property in southern Victoria was once covered with a mosaic of rainforest, including 90-metre tall Mountain Ash trees. As the agriculturalists and loggers moved into the region in the late 19th century, the land was cleared and less than a fifth of the original forest remains standing today.
“When I bought the land, it was overgrazed and run down with erosion and weeds. It had very little remanent vegetation left,” Adam explains.
The sparsely-forested property’s steep slopes and frequent heavy rainfall also made it prone to devastating landslides.
Since 2011, the Tysons and Greenfleet have planted approximately 14,880 native trees.
“We’ve seen many improvements over that time. The trees are thriving and there is a noticeable increase in birdlife,” Adam says.
“The trees are certainly helping with the erosion – and we haven’t had a landslide for a couple of seasons now.”
Find out more at www.greenfleet.org.au
GGT Electric’s new 2012 4-Door Scout Pickup Truck with a 96 volt/50 Horsepower power train, making it the most powerful all-electric pickup truck in its class. In addition to its new power train and stylish new crew-cab, the 4-Door Scout also features GGT’s new electric heater, which is one of the most powerful heating systems in any electric vehicle today.
Learn more about it at www.ggtelectric.com
It might be rainy and miserable, but we're still out there getting the job done! Brian and his team at Quartech kickstarted the site preparation for tree planting later this year on this gorgeous property in Gippsland, Vic.
The farm is home to Emma from Glorious Googies and her 1,200 free-range chooks. And this winter it'll undergo a facelift with 37ha of the property revegetated with nearly 30,000 native trees. Emma said "The area we’ve chosen is steep and rugged – and should never have been cleared in the first place. Working with Greenfleet provides us with a great opportunity to leave a legacy beyond what the two of us and our chooks could ever hope to do."
Find out more about how Glorious Googies is working with Greenfleet to turn these hills into a beautiful native forest: www.greenfleet.com.au/News/TabId/264/artmid/2986/articlei...
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This native forest was planted in 2012, to revegetate 15.8 ha of a private property in East Gippsland, Vic.
Greenfleet plants native trees to restore ecosystems and biodiverse forests and offset carbon emissions on behalf of our supporters. As a non-profit, we exist to make a difference not a profit. Our mission is to protect our climate by restoring our forests. We are dedicated to connecting people with real climate action.
Find out more at www.greenfleet.org.au
A run-down parcel of land on the side of the Strzelecki Ranges has been transformed by a visionary landowner and Greenfleet.
Adam and Debbie Tyson’s property in southern Victoria was once covered with a mosaic of rainforest, including 90-metre tall Mountain Ash trees. As the agriculturalists and loggers moved into the region in the late 19th century, the land was cleared and less than a fifth of the original forest remains standing today.
“When I bought the land, it was overgrazed and run down with erosion and weeds. It had very little remanent vegetation left,” Adam explains.
The sparsely-forested property’s steep slopes and frequent heavy rainfall also made it prone to devastating landslides.
Since 2011, the Tysons and Greenfleet have planted approximately 14,880 native trees.
“We’ve seen many improvements over that time. The trees are thriving and there is a noticeable increase in birdlife,” Adam says.
“The trees are certainly helping with the erosion – and we haven’t had a landslide for a couple of seasons now.”
Find out more at www.greenfleet.org.au
Ready. Steady. Go!
Today is the first day of our tree planting project along the Great Ocean Road. Greenfleet Contractor Keith will plant 6,500 native trees on this site on behalf of Europcar and their customers, who are funding this iconic reforestation project!
Additionally to providing vital habitat, donating to the Great Ocean Road Restoration Project is helping to sequester carbon from the atmosphere in projects, protect biodiversity, improve water quality and transform the landscape back to its natural state.
Click Here to make a tax-deductible donation to support this project and help plant more trees along the Great Ocean Road > www.greenfleet.com.au/GORrevegetationproject
In 2016, Greenfleet once again partnered with South Gippsland Water to revegetate part of their land. This site is Hyland Reservoir, and we planted nearly 6,000 native trees to revegetate and turn back 9ha to native bushland.
Find out more about how you can help at www.greenfleet.org.au
GGT Electric’s new 2012 4-Door Scout Pickup Truck with a 96 volt/50 Horsepower power train, making it the most powerful all-electric pickup truck in its class. In addition to its new power train and stylish new crew-cab, the 4-Door Scout also features GGT’s new electric heater, which is one of the most powerful heating systems in any electric vehicle today.
Learn more about it at www.ggtelectric.com
The BioBike and part of the University of Adelaide team at the Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve south of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. Clockwise from left: students Nathan Thompson, Heidi McNamara, Michael Shannon and Tong Zhou with Senior Lecturer Dr Colin Kestell.
"A University of Adelaide student-run team that designed and built a biodiesel motorcycle has won a major award in the Greenfleet Technology Class of the 2007 Panasonic World Solar Challenge.
Called "BioBike", the biodiesel motorbike won the award for Best Environmental Profile - that is, the vehicle that generated the least greenhouse gas emissions.
Releasing just 71 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre travelled, the BioBike completed the 3000km trek between Darwin and Adelaide in seven days, returning to Adelaide on Saturday. Its fuel efficiency was 3.5 litres per 100km."
GGT Electric’s new 2012 4-Door Scout Pickup Truck with a 96 volt/50 Horsepower power train, making it the most powerful all-electric pickup truck in its class. In addition to its new power train and stylish new crew-cab, the 4-Door Scout also features GGT’s new electric heater, which is one of the most powerful heating systems in any electric vehicle today.
Learn more about it at www.ggtelectric.com
A run-down parcel of land on the side of the Strzelecki Ranges has been transformed by a visionary landowner and Greenfleet.
Adam and Debbie Tyson’s property in southern Victoria was once covered with a mosaic of rainforest, including 90-metre tall Mountain Ash trees. As the agriculturalists and loggers moved into the region in the late 19th century, the land was cleared and less than a fifth of the original forest remains standing today.
“When I bought the land, it was overgrazed and run down with erosion and weeds. It had very little remanent vegetation left,” Adam explains.
The sparsely-forested property’s steep slopes and frequent heavy rainfall also made it prone to devastating landslides.
Since 2011, the Tysons and Greenfleet have planted approximately 14,880 native trees.
“We’ve seen many improvements over that time. The trees are thriving and there is a noticeable increase in birdlife,” Adam says.
“The trees are certainly helping with the erosion – and we haven’t had a landslide for a couple of seasons now.”
Find out more at www.greenfleet.org.au
GGT Electric’s new 2012 4-Door Scout Pickup Truck with a 96 volt/50 Horsepower power train, making it the most powerful all-electric pickup truck in its class. In addition to its new power train and stylish new crew-cab, the 4-Door Scout also features GGT’s new electric heater, which is one of the most powerful heating systems in any electric vehicle today.
Learn more about it at www.ggtelectric.com
In 2016, Greenfleet once again partnered with South Gippsland Water to revegetate part of their land. This site is Hyland Reservoir, and we planted nearly 6,000 native trees to revegetate and turn back 9ha to native bushland.
Find out more about how you can help at www.greenfleet.org.au
A run-down parcel of land on the side of the Strzelecki Ranges has been transformed by a visionary landowner and Greenfleet.
Adam and Debbie Tyson’s property in southern Victoria was once covered with a mosaic of rainforest, including 90-metre tall Mountain Ash trees. As the agriculturalists and loggers moved into the region in the late 19th century, the land was cleared and less than a fifth of the original forest remains standing today.
“When I bought the land, it was overgrazed and run down with erosion and weeds. It had very little remanent vegetation left,” Adam explains.
The sparsely-forested property’s steep slopes and frequent heavy rainfall also made it prone to devastating landslides.
Since 2011, the Tysons and Greenfleet have planted approximately 14,880 native trees.
“We’ve seen many improvements over that time. The trees are thriving and there is a noticeable increase in birdlife,” Adam says.
“The trees are certainly helping with the erosion – and we haven’t had a landslide for a couple of seasons now.”
Find out more at www.greenfleet.org.au
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MEDITERRANEAN SEA (June 16, 2016) – The guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), top, guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56), middle, and Itialian navy participate in the Flotta Verde exercise as part of the Great Green Fleet initiative. The Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Rafael Martie/Released)
Need to do some hauling, but want to do it in all-electric, zero emission, low-cost style? In that case, the GGT 4-Door Scout Electric Pickup Truck sounds perfect for you. This stylish pick-up truck is ideal for fleet or utility use and, since it's 100% electric, it's a cheap, green alternative to high maintenance gas guzzlers. This is a rugged and fun way to go electric! Our all-electric scout pick-ups can be seen at John Carroll University and many other locations in the near future. www.ggtelectric.com
Photo taken at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
FOREST UPDATE // Greenfleet is working with Auckland Regional Council to progressively restore the land at Te Muri farm, before it opens as a Regional Park, just north of Auckland, New Zealand. All up, we've already planted more than 10,000 native trees in the park.
Te Muri is a beautiful spot overlooking Mahurangi Harbour, favoured by locals for its seclusion and great walking trail - perfect to commune with nature and enjoy Auckland’s great outdoors.
We're proud to revegetate cleared areas of the parks with native vegetation. The trees planted last year are reaching up to 2 metres in height and are really making an impact across the slope. As the forest matures, the land will benefit from increased water quality levels into the Puhoi River estuary, reduced land slips (which have occurred regularly across this landscape) and good quality habitat opportunities for native fauna.
A huge thank you to our supporters, like nzmca.org.nz for making this possible!
Find out more: www.greenfleet.com.au/Our-forests/Planting-Sites/Te-Muri
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As an environmental non-profit, Greenfleet is committed to protecting our climate by restoring our forests. We plant native trees to restore ecosystems and biodiverse forests and to offset carbon emissions on behalf of our supporters.
Find out more about Greenfleet and our native reforestation work around Australia and New Zealand and how to get involved: www.greenfleet.org.au
A run-down parcel of land on the side of the Strzelecki Ranges has been transformed by a visionary landowner and Greenfleet.
Adam and Debbie Tyson’s property in southern Victoria was once covered with a mosaic of rainforest, including 90-metre tall Mountain Ash trees. As the agriculturalists and loggers moved into the region in the late 19th century, the land was cleared and less than a fifth of the original forest remains standing today.
“When I bought the land, it was overgrazed and run down with erosion and weeds. It had very little remanent vegetation left,” Adam explains.
The sparsely-forested property’s steep slopes and frequent heavy rainfall also made it prone to devastating landslides.
Since 2011, the Tysons and Greenfleet have planted approximately 14,880 native trees.
“We’ve seen many improvements over that time. The trees are thriving and there is a noticeable increase in birdlife,” Adam says.
“The trees are certainly helping with the erosion – and we haven’t had a landslide for a couple of seasons now.”
Find out more at www.greenfleet.org.au
This native forest was planted in 2012, to revegetate 15.8 ha of a private property in East Gippsland, Vic.
Greenfleet plants native trees to restore ecosystems and biodiverse forests and offset carbon emissions on behalf of our supporters. As a non-profit, we exist to make a difference not a profit. Our mission is to protect our climate by restoring our forests. We are dedicated to connecting people with real climate action.
Find out more at www.greenfleet.org.au
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MEDITERRANEAN SEA (June 16, 2016) – The guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80), top, guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56), middle, and Itialian navy participate in the Flotta Verde exercise as part of the Great Green Fleet initiative. The Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Rafael Martie/Released)
This site is one of the 5 sites we revegetated in the iconic Kosciuszko National Park, NSW.
Greenfleet has been working with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) since 2008 to revegetate a number of sites within Kosciuszko National Park. Primarily used for grazing prior to being incorporated into Kosciuszko National Park in1967, natural regeneration at these sites has been slow and sporadic because of weed infestation, kangaroo and pest animal populations, and compacted soils.
In 2010, we planted 50,000 native trees on the site dubbed ‘Depot’ to restore habitat for native animals, improve water quality leading to the reservoir and to improve aesthetics for the high visitation camp grounds and highway fronting hillsides.
More info about our work in the Kosciuszko National Park: www.greenfleet.com.au/Our-forests/Planting-Sites/Kosciusz...
As an environmental non-profit, Greenfleet is committed to protecting our climate by restoring our forests. We plant native trees to restore ecosystems and biodiverse forests and to offset carbon emissions on behalf of our supporters.
Find out more about Greenfleet and our native reforestation work around Australia and New Zealand and how to get involved: www.greenfleet.org.au
Milford, Michigan is the hometown of GGT Electric, and it's also one of the most progressively green cities in the entire state. Milford became one of the first cities in Michigan to install public electric vehicle charging stations, so, to foster their commitment to zero emission vehicles, GGT has donated one of our E-Dyne Trucks to the city for three months to allow Milford to pilot new electric options for their city fleet. www.ggtelectric.com
Pictured in the photo is Becky Jacques, Finance Director for the village of Milford. Photo taken in Milford, Michigan.
On June 9, 2017, Greenfleet held the second edition of our Stakeholder Lunches in New Zealand. We welcomed key supporters, decision makers and stakeholders to share information on Greenfleet’s future direction and investments, climate change, biodiverse forests, carbon offsets and life in general.
Since our first Stakeholders Lunch in 2016, many new and exciting opportunities have developed in New Zealand for Greenfleet.
Greenfleet is now in its twentieth year of operations and we are very focused on continuing to expand our impact. We connect climate action to biodiversity and provide a simple and practical way for companies and individuals to play their part.
Our supporters are critical to this endeavor, and I want to acknowledge our colleagues at Fleetcor in New Zealand for their early support, joined by Europcar, EBOS and the NZ Motor Home and Caravan Association. We hope to welcome many more over the coming months.
Our focus is to restore ecosystems by planting locally native trees. Auckland City Council has been key in identifying our first planting site at Te Muri and developing complex agreements to ensure that our reforestation projects are protected in the long term. I want to thank Sir Bob Harvey, Rob Small and the team from Auckland Parks for their hard work on this issue.
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As an environmental non-profit, Greenfleet is committed to protecting our climate by restoring our forests. We plant native trees to restore ecosystems and biodiverse forests and to offset carbon emissions on behalf of our supporters.
Find out more about Greenfleet and our native reforestation work around Australia and New Zealand and how to get involved: www.greenfleet.org.au
Milford, Michigan is the hometown of GGT Electric, and it's also one of the most progressively green cities in the entire state. Milford became one of the first cities in Michigan to install public electric vehicle charging stations, so, to foster their commitment to zero emission vehicles, GGT has donated one of our E-Dyne Trucks to the city for three months to allow Milford to pilot new electric options for their city fleet. www.ggtelectric.com
Pictured in the photo are Becky Jacques, Finance Director for the village of Milford, and Ray Leduc, CEO of GGT Electric. Photo taken in Milford, Michigan.
GGT Electric’s new 2012 4-Door Scout Pickup Truck with a 96 volt/50 Horsepower power train, making it the most powerful all-electric pickup truck in its class. In addition to its new power train and stylish new crew-cab, the 4-Door Scout also features GGT’s new electric heater, which is one of the most powerful heating systems in any electric vehicle today.
Learn more about it at www.ggtelectric.com
Milford, Michigan is the hometown of GGT Electric, and it's also one of the most progressively green cities in the entire state. Milford became one of the first cities in Michigan to install public electric vehicle charging stations, so, to foster their commitment to zero emission vehicles, GGT has donated one of our E-Dyne Trucks to the city for three months to allow Milford to pilot new electric options for their city fleet. www.ggtelectric.com
Photo taken in Milford, Michigan.
GGT Electric’s new 2012 4-Door Scout Pickup Truck with a 96 volt/50 Horsepower power train, making it the most powerful all-electric pickup truck in its class. In addition to its new power train and stylish new crew-cab, the 4-Door Scout also features GGT’s new electric heater, which is one of the most powerful heating systems in any electric vehicle today.
Learn more about it at www.ggtelectric.com
Milford, Michigan is the hometown of GGT Electric, and it's also one of the most progressively green cities in the entire state. Milford became one of the first cities in Michigan to install public electric vehicle charging stations, so, to foster their commitment to zero emission vehicles, GGT has donated one of our E-Dyne Trucks to the city for three months to allow Milford to pilot new electric options for their city fleet. www.ggtelectric.com
Photo taken in Milford, Michigan.
The bike Austin is showing is a foldable Brompton. Green Fleet is the Nashville distributor for the bike. I tried out this demo and was amazed that it actually felt like a solid and smooth commuter bike and not the toy it looks like. More info: greenfleethub.com/brompton-folding-bikes/
Once the forest has established foresters would perform a carbon measurements by randomly selecting a 10m x 10m plot in the forest.
To measure the carbon of a plot, the trees' heights are measured, using a clinometer.
More information about Greenfleet's native biodiverse forests is available on our website: www.greenfleet.com.au
Drone footage captured by Hunter Land Management (HLM) in July 2018.
More than 17,000 native trees have been planted in the Great Lakes district of NSW. Thirty-four different species of trees now cover 18.6 ha. We are collaborating with the Great Lakes City Council to revegetate three main areas to restore degraded land and improve water quality in the Wallamba and Myall Rivers which flow into the Great Lakes.
The land is a wealth of natural assets, including state-listed endangered ecological communities and threatened species, including the Koala, the Wallum Froglet and the Black-necked Stork.
This project underscores the role Greenfleet can play in improving water quality, as we bring revegetation to mainstream infrastructure
planning.
Find out more about Greenfleet on www.greenfleet.org.au
In 2006 and 2007, Greenfleet direct seeded 152 ha on 13 farms near Dunkeld, Victoria, at teh base of Mt Surgeon and Mt Abrupt.
Comprised of shelter belts and small blocks, this large revegetation project aimed to establish shelter belts for sheep and cattle to protect them from the elements, to re-introduce biodiversity to vast grazing tracts and to help re-habilitate eroding creeklines.
During our visit in April 2014, the canopy was at 6-8 metres and mostly dominated by Black Wattles. The eucalyptus species are growing slower but are expected to exceed this height.
The native wildlife has adopted the new forest with small birds (such as Willie Wagtails and Yellow-Rumped Thornbills) using the shelter belts. Eastern Grey Kangaroos and Swamp Wallabies are also using the forests along their travelling routes.
Visit www.greenfleet.com.au for more information.
Bundaberg Region’s biggest environmental reforestation project sees 80,000 native trees, worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars, going into the ground at the Barolin Nature Reserve.
In partnership with Bundaberg Regional Council, Greenfleet set out to turn nearly 90 ha of land back to native bush as part of the non-profit’s carbon offset program and at no cost to Council.
The reforestation project is a win for Council, the community, the local economy and the environment. This will revitalise one of the region’s most popular and significant natural areas by helping to protect the endangered turtles hatching at the Mon Repos beach and creating new job opportunities for local indigenous people.
Greenfleet CEO, Wayne Wescott, said the trees represented real action on climate change.
“This will become one of more than 425 forests we have planted across Australia and New Zealand since 1997 on behalf of our supporters. As it grows, the forest at Barolin Nature Reserve will capture carbon pollution from the atmosphere, conserve biodiversity, provide extra habitat for wildlife and more bushland for people to enjoy,” he said.
“The trees will also play a vital role in helping the endangered marine turtles at Mon Repos by reducing the glow of lights onto the beach. Mon Repos rangers explained that the baby turtles need a dark beach so that they can get safely out to sea. I am very proud that, in the long-term, the Greenfleet forest will help them to survive,” Wayne Wescott explained.
Greenfleet aims to restore the biodiverse ecosystems of the areas where it plants the trees. The seeds of the 80,000 trees were sourced locally, reflecting the mix of species that would have grown in the Reserve prior to clearing and grown in a local nursery.
This project creates jobs for the local community. Greenfleet worked with the Gidarjil Development Corporation to provide employment opportunities to members of the Gooreng Gooreng people, traditional owners of the land. A crew of six kicked off the tree planting after Easter and finished last week.
A tree planting day is to be held on Tuesday 9 May with some of the project’s key stakeholders and supporters from the community; including staff from Churches of Christ in Queensland, which is helping to fund this revegetation work through their carbon offsets. Other key supporters include Smartgroup, Telstra and Disney.
Under the project, Greenfleet will maintain the planted areas until the forest is established to ensure good survival of the trees and in return Council has guaranteed that the trees will remain in place for a minimum of 30 years. Greenfleet and the Bundaberg Regional Council are looking to establish further plantings across the region.
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Find out more: www.greenfleet.org.au
A run-down parcel of land on the side of the Strzelecki Ranges has been transformed by a visionary landowner and Greenfleet.
Adam and Debbie Tyson’s property in southern Victoria was once covered with a mosaic of rainforest, including 90-metre tall Mountain Ash trees. As the agriculturalists and loggers moved into the region in the late 19th century, the land was cleared and less than a fifth of the original forest remains standing today.
“When I bought the land, it was overgrazed and run down with erosion and weeds. It had very little remanent vegetation left,” Adam explains.
The sparsely-forested property’s steep slopes and frequent heavy rainfall also made it prone to devastating landslides.
Since 2011, the Tysons and Greenfleet have planted approximately 14,880 native trees.
“We’ve seen many improvements over that time. The trees are thriving and there is a noticeable increase in birdlife,” Adam says.
“The trees are certainly helping with the erosion – and we haven’t had a landslide for a couple of seasons now.”
Find out more at www.greenfleet.org.au
Landscape fragmentation is a significant problem in Australia. Where once our landscape was one of connected native forests, there is now only small pockets of vulnerable native vegetation surrounded by a sea of open farmland.
In 2014, we teamed up with a local organisation to Cassinia Environmental to revegetate a 180-ha piece of land in Central Victoria. This adds to our extensive reforestation work in the area.
The site was direct seeded and the forest is slowly emerging over the years.
As an environmental non-profit, Greenfleet is committed to protecting our climate by restoring our forests. We plant native trees to restore ecosystems and biodiverse forests and to offset carbon emissions on behalf of our supporters.
Find out more about Greenfleet and our native reforestation work around Australia and New Zealand and how to get involved: www.greenfleet.org.au
Landscape fragmentation is a significant problem in Australia. Where once our landscape was one of connected native forests, there is now only small pockets of vulnerable native vegetation surrounded by a sea of open farmland.
In 2014, we teamed up with a local organisation to Cassinia Environmental to revegetate a 180-ha piece of land in Central Victoria. This adds to our extensive reforestation work in the area.
The site was direct seeded and the forest is slowly emerging over the years.
As an environmental non-profit, Greenfleet is committed to protecting our climate by restoring our forests. We plant native trees to restore ecosystems and biodiverse forests and to offset carbon emissions on behalf of our supporters.
Find out more about Greenfleet and our native reforestation work around Australia and New Zealand and how to get involved: www.greenfleet.org.au
“My dream is finally in motion! With a team of Greenfleet superheroes, we're working to turn all the steep and wet parts of my farm back to native bush. This is an area of 34.5 hectares!! I can't wait for the day that I can make this area into a sanctuary for our native animals and birds and see bush instead of bare hills being reduced by wind and soil erosion.”
Emma Brown could not wipe the smile off her face in June 2016, for every tree planted on her farm by the Greenfleet team brought her one step closer to fulfil a dream she’s had ever since she bought the land.
After investigating a range of options over the years, from grants to partnerships with not-for-profits, Emma had concluded that “Greenfleet was the only organisation that could help me do what I wanted to do.”
Together with tree planting professional Frank and his team, we planted 30,000 native trees at Glorious Googies with a mixture of 28 species, re-establishing the wet forest and warm temperate rainforest ecosystem that once existed on the Gippsland farm.
“The team at Greenfleet is very clever. They have done a survey of what the original bush would have been like. They're also using flowering native plants that are indigenous at my request for the insects and bees and birds,” Emma explained.
“The area we’ve chosen is steep and rugged – and should never have been cleared in the first place. Working with Greenfleet provides us with a great opportunity to leave a legacy beyond what the two of us and our chooks could ever hope to do,” she added.
Trees will help with the visible erosion on Korumburra and provide natural shelter for the 1,200 free-range chooks which spend their days foraging around the paddocks. “It gets windy here – so the trees will help with protection against the wind, as well as with the water evaporation that further damages the soil,” she explains.
A recent academic study by Nagle and Glatz has found enriching the free-range environment attracts chickens out of their coops and onto the land. The research confirms that well-sheltered pasture areas produce healthier and happier hens.
Emma is “100 per cent confident” that the revegetation process of this ‘chicken haven’ will improve the farm’s productivity, as well as providing new habitat for native wildlife.
“It will be a ‘bush block’ that we can enjoy for bushwalks in our own backyard. How good is that?”
Find out more about Greenfleet and how you can help plant more trees: www.greenfleet.org.au
This native forest was planted in 2012, to revegetate 15.8 ha of a private property in East Gippsland, Vic.
Greenfleet plants native trees to restore ecosystems and biodiverse forests and offset carbon emissions on behalf of our supporters. As a non-profit, we exist to make a difference not a profit. Our mission is to protect our climate by restoring our forests. We are dedicated to connecting people with real climate action.
Find out more at www.greenfleet.org.au
“My dream is finally in motion! With a team of Greenfleet superheroes, we're working to turn all the steep and wet parts of my farm back to native bush. This is an area of 34.5 hectares!! I can't wait for the day that I can make this area into a sanctuary for our native animals and birds and see bush instead of bare hills being reduced by wind and soil erosion.”
Emma Brown could not wipe the smile off her face in June 2016, for every tree planted on her farm by the Greenfleet team brought her one step closer to fulfil a dream she’s had ever since she bought the land.
After investigating a range of options over the years, from grants to partnerships with not-for-profits, Emma had concluded that “Greenfleet was the only organisation that could help me do what I wanted to do.”
Together with tree planting professional Frank and his team, we planted 30,000 native trees at Glorious Googies with a mixture of 28 species, re-establishing the wet forest and warm temperate rainforest ecosystem that once existed on the Gippsland farm.
“The team at Greenfleet is very clever. They have done a survey of what the original bush would have been like. They're also using flowering native plants that are indigenous at my request for the insects and bees and birds,” Emma explained.
“The area we’ve chosen is steep and rugged – and should never have been cleared in the first place. Working with Greenfleet provides us with a great opportunity to leave a legacy beyond what the two of us and our chooks could ever hope to do,” she added.
Trees will help with the visible erosion on Korumburra and provide natural shelter for the 1,200 free-range chooks which spend their days foraging around the paddocks. “It gets windy here – so the trees will help with protection against the wind, as well as with the water evaporation that further damages the soil,” she explains.
A recent academic study by Nagle and Glatz has found enriching the free-range environment attracts chickens out of their coops and onto the land. The research confirms that well-sheltered pasture areas produce healthier and happier hens.
Emma is “100 per cent confident” that the revegetation process of this ‘chicken haven’ will improve the farm’s productivity, as well as providing new habitat for native wildlife.
“It will be a ‘bush block’ that we can enjoy for bushwalks in our own backyard. How good is that?”
Find out more about Greenfleet and how you can help plant more trees: www.greenfleet.org.au
“My dream is finally in motion! With a team of Greenfleet superheroes, we're working to turn all the steep and wet parts of my farm back to native bush. This is an area of 34.5 hectares!! I can't wait for the day that I can make this area into a sanctuary for our native animals and birds and see bush instead of bare hills being reduced by wind and soil erosion.”
Emma Brown could not wipe the smile off her face in June 2016, for every tree planted on her farm by the Greenfleet team brought her one step closer to fulfil a dream she’s had ever since she bought the land.
After investigating a range of options over the years, from grants to partnerships with not-for-profits, Emma had concluded that “Greenfleet was the only organisation that could help me do what I wanted to do.”
Together with tree planting professional Frank and his team, we planted 30,000 native trees at Glorious Googies with a mixture of 28 species, re-establishing the wet forest and warm temperate rainforest ecosystem that once existed on the Gippsland farm.
“The team at Greenfleet is very clever. They have done a survey of what the original bush would have been like. They're also using flowering native plants that are indigenous at my request for the insects and bees and birds,” Emma explained.
“The area we’ve chosen is steep and rugged – and should never have been cleared in the first place. Working with Greenfleet provides us with a great opportunity to leave a legacy beyond what the two of us and our chooks could ever hope to do,” she added.
Trees will help with the visible erosion on Korumburra and provide natural shelter for the 1,200 free-range chooks which spend their days foraging around the paddocks. “It gets windy here – so the trees will help with protection against the wind, as well as with the water evaporation that further damages the soil,” she explains.
A recent academic study by Nagle and Glatz has found enriching the free-range environment attracts chickens out of their coops and onto the land. The research confirms that well-sheltered pasture areas produce healthier and happier hens.
Emma is “100 per cent confident” that the revegetation process of this ‘chicken haven’ will improve the farm’s productivity, as well as providing new habitat for native wildlife.
“It will be a ‘bush block’ that we can enjoy for bushwalks in our own backyard. How good is that?”
Find out more about Greenfleet and how you can help plant more trees: www.greenfleet.org.au
In 2006 and 2007, Greenfleet direct seeded 152 ha on 13 farms near Dunkeld, Victoria, at teh base of Mt Surgeon and Mt Abrupt.
Comprised of shelter belts and small blocks, this large revegetation project aimed to establish shelter belts for sheep and cattle to protect them from the elements, to re-introduce biodiversity to vast grazing tracts and to help re-habilitate eroding creeklines.
During our visit in April 2014, the canopy was at 6-8 metres and mostly dominated by Black Wattles. The eucalyptus species are growing slower but are expected to exceed this height.
The native wildlife has adopted the new forest with small birds (such as Willie Wagtails and Yellow-Rumped Thornbills) using the shelter belts. Eastern Grey Kangaroos and Swamp Wallabies are also using the forests along their travelling routes.
Visit www.greenfleet.com.au for more information.
Ready. Steady. Go!
Today is the first day of our tree planting project along the Great Ocean Road. Greenfleet Contractor Keith will plant 6,500 native trees on this site on behalf of Europcar and their customers, who are funding this iconic reforestation project!
Additionally to providing vital habitat, donating to the Great Ocean Road Restoration Project is helping to sequester carbon from the atmosphere in projects, protect biodiversity, improve water quality and transform the landscape back to its natural state.
Click Here to make a tax-deductible donation to support this project and help plant more trees along the Great Ocean Road > www.greenfleet.com.au/GORrevegetationproject
A number of sites were planted in 2002 along the shores and neighbouring paddocks of Lake Hume. These sites formed part of the Murray Darling Rescue project aimed at reducing salinity and erosion in this important river system.
Visit www.greenfleet.com.au to find out more about our native reforestation program.
Photo taken by a Greenfleet Forester in April 2012