G. J. Gardner Homes has been supporting our native environment (through Fifteen Trees) since 2013 and has helped us plant 34,000 trees across Victoria and Tasmania. For every new home built, Fifteen Trees organises the planting of 15 trees in the local district. This year, the project will see over 8,500 trees planted by schools, landcare and various environmental groups. The partnership with Fifteen Trees allows GJG teams to go into the [...]
Blue Mountains Eco Tours is a friendly, family run boutique tour operator providing day trips into the beautiful and scenic, Blue Mountains National Park, near Sydney Australia. Their speciality is operating luxury tours with small groups. Owners of the company, Paul and Jenny Hartmann, annually donate to Fifteen Trees to reduce the carbon footprint of their work vehicles. This year, we have planted 45 trees for their three cars. [...]
Pana Chocolate has signed on again with Fifteen Trees to ensure our native environment receives the love it so needs. The man behind the chocolate Pana Barbounis, has committed to 12,000 trees this year! The trees shown here on this post are actually from last year's commitment of 11,000 trees. We were a little short so have planted another 1,400 trees to get us to the true total. Of the [...]
Eight individuals contributed to this re-vegetation project at Hollingsworth Creek (NSW). Their generosity, enabled Eli and her team from Wetland Care Australia and Conservation Volunteers to plant 400 trees along the banks of their local creek. Special heart-felt thanks to the generous support of these amazing people ... Sr Anne Boyd (30 trees) and Sr Louise Cleary (33 trees) from the St Brigidine Community, Anine who wanted trees 60 planted [...]
"As an old man, pondering the wonders of our universe" (his words), Bill Hall wrote the following words for his niece's new baby Skye. “Skye has been brought into a world where climate change and our carbon footprint is of ever increasing concern. If you provide her with the hoped for opportunities as she moves along life’s path, she will have a significant carbon footprint. It is nice to think [...]
At Pana Chocolate they live by the motto "Love Your Insides. Love The Earth." They want their chocolate to be GOOD for you, and kind to the EARTH. Pana Chocolate are PROUD supporters in helping organisations such as Fifteen Trees, Landcare Australia, WetLand Care Australia, Sea Shephard and Peter Singer to continue to achieve their GOALS. This year, Pana Barbounis, founder of Pana Chocolate, has generously donated 9,600 trees to [...]
This year, Pana Barbounis (Pana Chocolate) has generously partnered with help Fifteen Trees plant 9,600 trees across Victoria and NSW. This is in addition to 10,000 trees last year and 1,000 trees the year before. Pana is slowly growing himself a forest! This time round, 1,500 trees were planted at the University of Newcastle by WetlandCare Australia. University students joined in with the planting. Louise Duff (Regional Manager) [...]
Pana Barbounis and his team at Pana Chocolate have had a busy few weeks, first planting 4,000 trees at the Brisbane Ranges (Victoria) and now 1,000 trees at Botany Bay National Park (NSW). Pana and the gang. "Thank you to Pana and the team from Pana Chocolate. The day went really well and we had 24 folk turned up. People drifted off from 12.00 pm with the last [...]
Queensland Innisfail State College (a combined secondary school and TAFE) have been working hard over a number of years to improve the area around their school and in particular the banks of the Johnstone River that runs behind the campus. Earlier plantings have helped stabilize the riverbank, and students are now encouraged to extend their project with more tree planting. The area is now (almost) free of weeds and the [...]
I found Emily (or rather she found me) earlier this year at the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne, when she wandered past my Fifteen Trees stall and bought some trees for The Brisbane Ranges. Ten months later, Emily contacted me wanting to have more trees planted, this time on the behalf of herself and her new husband Ash. I am always delighted to plant trees and had the 130 trees [...]
Planted trees restore critical habitat at important wetland. Well protected trees. Eli Dutton from WetlandCare writes ... "The Little Llangothlin Lagoon Nature Reserve is one of Australia’s RAMSAR listed sites situated near Guyra on the New England Tablelands of NSW. A RAMSAR wetlands site is of international importance. Little Llangothlin Lagoon is a permanent freshwater lake found within the reserve noted for its waterbird habitat, unique ecological character [...]
The 600 rainforest trees, shrubs, reeds and sedges planted this month in the Hunter Wetlands Centre (north of Sydney) were propagated by the Hunter Wetland Centre and coordinated by WetlandCare Australia. A host of community volunteers such as the Watagans Wanderers Bush Walking Club and students from Hunter Christian College came to plant. Community Volunteers. The plants were kindly paid for by Hertz NSW who were keen to [...]
Dear Colleen, Ballina Crown Land Reserve, was a hectare of previously degraded and weed infested land adjoining the southern border of the Ballina Golf Club. However, it is slowly evolving and has now been planted with over 1500 native rainforest species. The Reserve is an area that is home to a number of threatened plant and animal species. It also has extremely high cultural significance. Thank you to the supporters [...]
When you carbon offset your car or flight with Fifteen Trees, you get to see exactly where your trees have been planted and you directly support our rural environment and communities. Lake Macquarie. Kerry Palejs the CEO of MAS National (Making Apprenticeships Simple) has carbon offset her entire fleet of 30 cars with Fifteen Trees. As a result, 450 trees were donated to the Galgabba Landcare Group for planting in the [...]
