BORONIA Heights State School's environment club has prevailed against almost 1000 Australian primary schools and early learning centres to win a Woolworths Junior Landcare grant.
The $900 grant will help the environment club develop their habitat creation project to transform a vacant space on school grounds into a thriving eco area.
Native plants and bushes will be planted to create habitat for frogs, insects and lizards.
The project includes creation of a pond to breed the vulnerable ornate rainbow fish.
Woolworths operations manager Brett O'Dea said the grant aimed to promote hands-on projects focusing on sustainable food production, improving waste management practices and enhancing native habitats.
"The students at Boronia Heights Environment Club have developed a deserving project that will contribute to a greener future for our community and we look forward to tracking their progress and success," Mr O'Dea said.
Landcare Australia CEO Shane Norrish said he was looking forward to seeing the Boronia Heights environment club's project come to fruition.
"Getting hands-on with environmental projects at this early stage in their development will help equip students with the ability, knowledge and resources to take meaningful action to protect our shared local and national biodiversity as they grow up," Dr Norrish said.
Building on the success of the program to date, Woolworths will be providing grants to an additional over 600 schools empowering 100,000 students nationally during this second round of the program.
Woolworths has supported $500,000 worth of Junior Landcare projects for more than 1155 schools since June 2018.
