Every year, Scouts across Australia come together to uphold the Scouting tradition of service through an annual series of tree planting events across the country.

Working in conjunction with farmers and other regional land owners, Scout Australia teams up with Greenfleet to plant several thousand trees each year.

This achieves a number of outcomes: It helps farmers prevent erosion of their land from flooding, by breaking up flood zones and slowing down water flow; halts salinity, the accumulation of salt in farmland which kills nearly all plant life, and helps people offset their carbon emissions through Greenfleet’s Carbon footprint calculator and offset service.

In 2007, the Scouts were able to plant over 23,000 trees across the country. These seedlings were planted as part of a tree planting programme that Scouts Australia are running in the most salt affected areas of the Murray River and Darling River catchment areas.   

Almost 1,000,000 trees have been planted since 2001, helping farmers and the environment in the process.

This is testament of the service scouts across the world put in for local communities and the environment every day.

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www.scouts.com.au