Why are we creating a community forest at the western end of Cain St between the Duck Pond and the sea?

  • Redhead is a naturally beautiful place with a tight knit community worth celebrating.  So we’re choosing to celebrate our suburb, the people who live in it, the people who visit us and the many things we do that give us joy.
  • Building a community forest empowers kids, parents and the community by doing their part to combat climate change
  • It inspires hope in the future because if our community can do it, other communities can too

Coastal Forests cool the landscape, stabilise sand dunes and create wildlife habitat.

Our forest will provide a shady walk through to the sea; a place for families to relax while kids play in a fairy forest and nature play area. Friends, families and the community can get together here and be surrounded by tranquillity, nature and birdlife.

Using the Miyawaki Method of planting it is expected that the forest will be self-sustaining after two to three years.

 

Small Picture

The monoculture of tea trees, between Cain St and Third Creek, planted after sand mining, is now in serious decline. Short term this creates a potential fire risk. But longer term without vegetation cover sand dunes mobilise during windy weather and bury remaining healthy trees. more…

Bigger Picture

Where Family Meets Community… and the Forest Meets the Sea  is about empowering our kids, us as individuals and as a community so that collectively we can help create an insurance scheme against climate change… one tree at a time. more…

Biggest Picture

If everyone on the earth planted on average just one tree a month, making 120 trees planted over ten years, we will have reached 960 Billion trees. more…

 

 

And this is “Where Our Community Forests Begin to Meet the Future.”

Why is One Trillion Trees so important?

When humans began to flourish on the earth it is estimated there were around 6 trillion trees. Now there are only around 3 trillion trees left. In Australia we have cleared half of our natural forests in just 200 years.

I don’t agree with this as it doesn’t support the reason behind a trillion trees and it’s a bit negative. Maybe add it as a learn more section.

In Australia deforestation is occurring at the rate of an MCG-sized area of native forest destroyed every 86 seconds. This contributes to Australia being the worst offending country for mammal extinctions in the world.

Less trees means hotter, drier climate. Those trees left can struggle to grow, especially during droughts so even more trees die. 

But less trees also means less organic matter in the soil. Desertification is becoming a huge global problem. Without regeneration programs, some countries will be unable to feed their populations into the future.

Planting one trillion trees is enough to make the significant difference needed to have a real chance at combating climate change.

Learn more: Go to https://www.trilliontreecampaign.org/ 

Trillion Trees was established in 2016. 

N.B. There is already a Trillion Trees Project in Western Australia. https://trilliontrees.org.au/   

In 2021, there were 13.96 billion trees planted worldwide through this initiative alone…

We can start small, engage cooperation within our communities and work within our own small circles of influence to help regenerate and preserve our own forests.

Because when you pare everything back, family, community and our environment are the most important things of all , regardless of where in the world we live.  

One day we want to be able to tell our grandkids…

“We did everything we could to help preserve your future.”