27 August 2024 | Accor Hotel employees from across the state came together recently for a day of corporate volunteering at Pages Creek catchment.
The team of Accor hotel staff on their planting day at Coolgardie Farm. Photo credit: Anita Long.
In a show of support for giving back to their local communities, staff from Movenpick Hotel Hobart, Novotel Devonport and ibis Styles Hobart pitched in during a planting event held at Coolgardie Farm, as part of the Pages Creek Catchment Restoration Project.
This planting project, funded through the Landcare Action Grants Open Round 5, is vital for enhancing landscape connectivity and bolstering habitat conditions for the threatened green and gold frog (Litoria raniformis), and contributes significantly to conservation efforts.
This site is key to continuing to create a corridor connecting the Coal River Tier to the east to Hammonds Tier to the west, and along the Pages Creek riparian corridor from Tea Tree to Richmond.
The planting project at Coolgardie Farm aims to protect and restore habitat for aquatic and land-based native species along Pages Creek.
The team of Accor employees worked enthusiastically to get native plants into the ground, despite the threatening rain forecast and dark skies. There were plenty of smiles at the end of the day as they celebrated their achievements and their important contribution to help improve the health of Pages Creek.
Coolgardie Farm is also home to the Tasmanian Junior Beekeepers, where pollinator friendly native trees will be planted along the Pages Creek catchment as part of this project. The newly planted natives will provide diverse floral sources not only for the bees, but all the species living in this vulnerable ecosystem.
Thanks to Anita Long from the Pages Creek Catchment Group for hosting us on the planting day.
