With offices in Naarm/Melbourne and Wadawurrung/Geelong, Proact are not just any accounting firm – they just happen to be our accountants too!
Specialising in all kinds of accounting – personal, business and beyond, Proact are not only committed to balancing the books for their many clients, but also for rejuvenating our native bushland.
We support Fifteen Trees great cause of tree planting to contribute to improving our precious environment. Trees helps create and restore habitats for wildlife and every contribution to the cause helps improve the environment for future generations.
Colin Petrie | Owner | Proact Accounting
This year’s trees were planted by Northern Bendigo Landcare (NBLG), Djaara Country, at the Huntly Reserve on Mother’s Day Sunday May 12th. This is a much-loved annual event for the Northern Bendigo Landcare Network (NBLN).
The 95 volunteers planted native species alongside the creek. This site had been damaged in the past due to gold mining and grazing. The project is ongoing, indeed the group have been working on it for the past 10 years. Their aim is to boost the ailing Creekline Grassy Woodland vegetation community.
The Huntly Lions Park is at the northern entrance to Bendigo and is a lovely little rest stop with mature River Red Gums adjacent to Back Creek and leading to a larger natural reserve that, in the early 1900’s, was the original Huntly Botanical Gardens. Many residents felt they had lost their connection with this local park and no longer viewed it as an asset or a safe green space. After giving residents alternative options, this was the right time to give the park a fresh start and reinstate it as a place of community pride.
Volunteers planted indigenous trees, shrubs and grasses such as Saltbush, Spreading Wattle, Sweet Bursaria and Bushy Needlewood, Kangaroo Grass, Common Tussock Grass, Wallaby Grass and Anther-Flax Lily.
These plants over time, will provide under-storey to the existing eucalypts at the site, help restore indigenous vegetation, showcase native vegetation to the visitors who stop off and use the area, and complement the native vegetation found in the natural reserve adjacent to the Lions Park. This area is a valuable piece of remnant vegetation with enormous potential for Bendigo. In future, the NBLG aims to work with council to link the Lions Park, via the old Botanic Gardens and along Back Creek to the Recreation Reserve. From here there are linkages to Bendigo Creek and to Goldleaf Wetland to link up all the valuable pieces of green space.
We are incredibly grateful to the sponsors for helping us create such a unique experience each year.
Our ‘Trees For Mum and High Tea’ Mother’s Day planting event has become an annual tradition for families in our area. It’s so special to provide this opportunity for new mums, families year after year as their children grow, families who’ve lost their wife/mother or those remembering a nana/grandma.
Nicole Howie | Secretary | Northern Bendigo Landcare Network
The park is home to Sugar Gliders, Brush-Tail Possums, Echidnas, Sulphur-crested Cockatoos, Galahs, Eastern Rosellas, Musk Lorikeets, Magpies, Kookaburras and members of the Honeyeater family.
Fifty trees were planted at Moonambel Primary School in the Western District of Victoria by the Buloke and Northern Grampians Landcare Network (BNGL), thanks to the Proact team. The trees were a mix of local species including Red gum, Grey, Yellow and Red Box, Yellow Gum, Buloke and a variety of Wattle.
At the Moonambel Primary School, students are very keen on their environmental studies and the Landcare Network was asked to help put in new trees of local species into the adjacent school reserve. This is where Proact came to assist, by purchasing 50 of these trees. The school is hoping to lure woodland birds into their Reserve which will assist with the environmental studies.
The area is home to several small marsupials including Sugar Gliders, Yellow-footed Antechinus as well as echidna, kangaroo and wallaby. Bird surveys in the area have shown that there are abundant species of honeyeater, parrot (Red Rumped and Musk parrots, Crimson and Eastern Rosellas) and smaller woodland birds (including Red, and Yellow Robins, and Diamond Firetails (endangered).
Thank you to the sponsors of the trees planted in Moonambel. You are helping our small bush community to provide homes for more wildlife, blossoms for pollinators and to make our town more beautiful!
Danielle | Member | BNGL
Thank you Colin, Filippa and the team from us here at Fifteen Trees. By the way, Proact also purchased trees for us in 2022 and 2023. You can read about them here.
Writer – Lou Ridsdale
Lou a green thumb, Earth Lover, big-hearted nature freak, plus a savvy media and horticulture expert, who passionately believe that everyone can lead a more nourishing and sustainable life. Lou founded Food Is Free Inc., a unique grassroots food security platform specialising in food security education. You can find Lou here
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