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Playing their part in global environmental programme
Monday, 18 June 2007
• Howick and Pakuranga Times
BILL Boyd, President of Rotary International, made a recent trip home and marked Arbor Day (June 5) with a visit to Bucklands Beach Intermediate.
Pakuranga's own Rotary International president Bill Boyd and pupils at the propagation unit at Bucklands Beach Intermediate School on Arbor Day. Photo supplied.
The school is one of many in the region participating in the Trees for Survival (TFS) programme.
The programme was started by the Rotary Club of Pakuranga, of which Mr Boyd is a member.
Schools involved with TFS have a nursery funded by a local Rotary club and students nurture seedlings until they’re big enough to be planted outside.
To convince New Zealanders to support the United Nations environmental programme’s Billion Trees campaign, TFS is seeking pledges for this country to plant and care for at least one million new trees this year.
Mr Boyd, whose term as Rotary International president ends on June 30, is based at its Chicago headquarters.
He was on his home patch again for a short break at Queen’s Birthday weekend.
At Mr Boyd’s suggestion, TFS took the step and became involved in the Billion Tree campaign.
Last year, 138 TFS schools throughout New Zealand planted more than 60,000 trees.
For more about the Billion Tree campaign,
visit www.tfsnz.org.nz
.