Looking after the environment

As we celebrate World Environment Day on June 5, I wonder what our environment will be like when my grandchildren are my age.

Governments seem to make decisions that allow human greed to control what happens to the environment.

I find being in a group that helps to look after the environment very rewarding. There are several groups here that meet regularly to remove weeds so that native plants can grow.

Each bushcare site has different plants, birds and animals, and different group members, so the educational and social aspects are important.

Groups work at Melaleuca Wetlands, Burrawang Reserve and Blackwall Mountain in Woy Woy, on the Umina and Ocean Beach dunes, Umina Campus and Ettymalong Creek in Umina, as well as on the beach and at the Arboretum at Pearl Beach.

If others would also like to join a Peninsula bushcare group, phone 4341 9301 for more information, or phone Gosford Council's bushcare officers on 4325 8169.

Fay Jones, Umina