LOGAN has celebrated Earth Day by restoring one of the city’s ecological gems.
Residents and families joined conservation groups to plant 1600 trees as part of the Belivah Creek restoration project on Sunday.
Belivah Creek runs from the dry rainforest at Bahr’s Hill down through Belivah and Bannockburn and out into the Albert River.
Parks, animals, environment and waste committee chair Cr Jennie Breene said Belivah Creek was an important natural asset.
“Belivah Creek has the potential to increase ecological diversity and it’s also vital to the health of the Albert River which it runs into,” Cr Breene said.
Beenleigh Rotary, Friends of Plunket, the Albert Valley Wilderness Society and other conservation groups partnered with council officers to bring the project to life.
Cr Laurie Koranski, whose division includes the park, joined the fun.
“I was particularly delighted to see families rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty to benefit future generations,” Cr Laurie Koranski said.
Participants learned how to correctly plant shrubs and trees were native to the region.
Earth Day, a global day of environmental action, began in 1970. Communities gather to plant trees and work on parks and beauty spots.
This year, organisers campaigned to bring an end to plastic pollution. Plastic threatens the planet’s survival from poisoning and injuring marine life to disrupting human hormones, from littering parks and beaches to clogging streams and landfill.
