Teens become green
Efforts to rehabilitate Central Coast creeks gained a further boost last week with the announcement that ten environmentally committed 17 -20 year olds have successfully gained traineeships to work on the Riparian (riverside) Rehabilitation Project.
One of the first creeks earmarked for the project is the Peninsula's Ettymalong Creek.
Central Coast Community Environment Network (CCCEN) oversees the traineeships.
The trainees, supported by the Australian Trust for Conservation Volunteers (ATCV) and the Green Corps "Young Australians for the Environment" 2000 Programme, will contribute in a variety of ways to help restore our local creeks.
Project coordinator Diane Warman said many of our creeks have been degraded and are in need of rehabilitation.
"Weed infestation, rubbish dumping and water quality, are constant concerns," she said.
She said these problems can be overcome with water quality monitoring, bush regeneration and better land management, which are skills that these young trainees will gain and apply over the coming 26 weeks.
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