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As part of the Auckland Regional Council's Trees for Survival programme, Ararimu School students went out to the Hunua farm of Noelene and Dennis Cossey.
Year 5 and 6 students participated in planting 400 seedlings donated by Watercare Services.
The Ararimu students, with teacher Mark Thomson, planted several native specimens including cabbage tree, flax and coprosmas that had been nursed at Ararimu School for a year.
The seedlings will require another three years of maintenance by the property owners so that they are not overcome by weeds, said Trees for Survival co-ordinator Sue Crawshay.
Sue says she now co-ordinates 63 schools in the programme, which plants at strategic sites like riparian and eroding land.
Ararimu School has been involved in Trees for Survival for eight years.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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