LHPA’s Mark McGaw brought along a trailer full of stuffed feral animals including foxes, rabbits, goats and pigs.  He gave the children a talk about why we need to control pest animals and the impact that they can have on primary production and on wildlife.  LHPA’s Neville Collins showed the children how to identify feral animal tracks the helped the students make their own plaster cast of a feral animal foot prints.

Roslyn Landcare’s Mark Selmes gave the students a talk about the importance of biodiversity with an entertaining show with snakes, lizards, echidna’s, birds, raptors and gliders was positive about the children’s responses. “The kids seem to know it’s a good thing to plant trees, I just show them that everything is connected, and there is a reason why we are planting the trees.” Mr. Selmes Said.

The dedicated Roslyn Landcarers, Eric Hurn, Kenneth Wheelwright and Len Johns gave the children a lesson in how to plant the trees and after a delicious barbecue by Kenneth Wheelwright, the children, teachers and landcarers got to work planting on a site well prepared by Len Johns next to a site were the Landcare and schools had planted three years earlier. 

Mr. Hurn was impressed by the enthusiasm of the children “Every child had a job, digging holes, making tree guards, planting the trees, putting on the guards and we managed to get 350 trees planted at the Roslyn TSR, it was a great effort.”

Later in the afternoon Mr. Selmes left the site and was replaced by a giant ‘pesky’ possum, much to the delight of the hardworking children.

It was a wonderful day to be involved with because of the amazing enthusiasm displayed by the children and the passion, dedication and generosity of the Roslyn Landcarers and the LHPA.