The Avondhu

Local schools back bid to plant 1 million trees

KATIE GLAVIN

Local children are among those from 36 Cork national schools who took part in a nationwide campaign this month to plant a million trees, to combat climate change.

Fermoy Adair National School, Curraglass National School and Castlelyons NS are among the local schools that took part in the initiative.

The Cork schools joined over 300 schools from across Ireland to take part in development charity Self Help Africa’s ‘One Million Trees’ campaign – planting trees in their local school grounds while supporting a wider initiative to plant trees in Africa, and highlight the impact that climate change is having on poor and vulnerable communities on the African continent.

“Children are extremely passionate about the environment. They’re alarmed by the stories that they read and hear about global warming, and want change,” said Sean McMahon, who is coordinating the schools’ campaign for Self Help Africa.

The local schools’ tree planting initiative is supported by the Irish National School Teachers Association (INTO), which provided native Irish tree seedlings for distribution to classrooms across the country to support the charity initiative.

Many of the schools involved also arranged collections and donations to Self Help Africa’s campaign, which aims to plant One Million Trees in Africa and 100,000 native trees in Ireland each year, to support communities affected by climate change, offset the effects of harmful greenhouse gases, and also highlight the importance and value of tree planting as a means of combatting global warming.

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