Tree Day News

The results are in

Date: 08-Sep-09
Author: Michelle Cook
Branches of Aussies take part in National Tree Day!

Share your National Tree Day experience with the world!

Date: 17-Aug-09
Author: Michelle Cook
Add your National Tree Day images to our new online gallery

Today is National Tree Day

Date: 02-Aug-09
Author: Michelle Cook
All around Australia, green thumbs great and small are gathering their gardening gear in anticipation for National Tree Day!

Date: 31-Jul-09
Author: Michelle Cook
Students from about 2,000 Australian primary and secondary schools are today rolling up their sleeves and playing in the dirt for an important environmental cause.

Help us reach 15 million seedlings!

Date: 30-Jul-09
Author: Michelle Cook
It's not to late to register your site. If you're holding a tree-planting event for National Tree Day then make it count!

Jumping Geraniums

Date: 28-Jul-09
Author: Michelle Cook
Meet our Schools Tree Day ambassador Fifi Forget me not

Australia's largest community tree-planting event is one week away

Date: 26-Jul-09
Author: Michelle Cook
In one week's time, more than 300,000 Aussies will get growing for Planet Ark's National Tree Day!

Site Coordintor Competition winners announced!

Date: 26-Jul-09
Author: Michelle Cook
Congratulations to our winners

Tree-planting resource now available

Date: 07-Jul-09
Author: Michelle Cook
Correctly planting a tree and giving it the best chance of survival has never been easier with Planet Ark's new how to plant a tree resource

The countdown to National Tree Day is on!

Date: 02-Jul-09
Author: Michelle Cook
There's now only one month to go until National Tree Day, so what are you waiting for? Get Growing!

Watch now: An interview with Jamie Durie

Date: 18-Jun-09
Author: Michelle Cook
Jamie Durie, one of National Tree Day's longest supporters, talks about his involvement in Australia's largest community tree-planting event.

Get growing this National Tree Day for your chance to win!

Date: 15-Jun-09
Author: Michelle Cook
National Tree Day is fast approaching and Planet Ark needs volunteer Site Coordinators to register and run tree-planting sites on Sunday 2 August as well as on Schools Tree Day, Friday 31 July.

Register now for National Tree Day

Date: 05-Jun-09
Author: Michelle Cook
Registration lines are now officially open and the race is on to recruit volunteer site coordinators for National Tree Day!

Jack Thompson digs in on World Environment Day

Date: 05-Jun-09
Author: Michelle Cook
This World Environment Day, Australian film and television actor and National Tree Day Ambassador, Jack Thompson, is urging all Australians to join Planet Ark's tree-planting revolution as National Tree Day volunteers.

Supporting Tree Day Sites

Date: 19-May-09
Author: Caroline Jones
From mulch to manpower, Planet Ark receive wide ranging and varied offers of help for National Tree Day sites.

Celebrity Ambassadors announced

Date: 12-May-09
Author: Michelle Cook
Planet Ark welcomes back Jamie Durie, Shelley Craft and Ranger Stacey as Ambassadors for this year's National Tree Day campaign.

Start a tree-planting revolution

Date: 12-May-09
Author: Michelle Cook
Planet Ark is calling on Australians to help it start a tree planting revolution by registering as volunteer Site Coordinators for National Tree Day. Volunteers that take part have the opportunity to teach future generations how to care for and preserve Australia's native environment.

Alternative National Tree Day Dates Announced

Date: 26-Feb-09
Author: Caroline Jones
Planet Ark insures a range of dates for tree planting and other activities throughout the year.

Tropical Tree Day Gets Underway

Date: 03-Dec-08
Author: Michelle Cook
On Sunday 7 December 2008, volunteers from Australia's top end will get growing for Planet Ark's Tropical Tree Day.

The Results Are In!

Date: 11-Sep-08
Author: Karen Billington
Planet Ark is delighted to announce the results of National Tree Day 2008.

National Tree Day Thank you!

Date: 30-Jul-08
Author: Karen Billington
A big thank you and congratulations to everyone who coordinated a tree-planting site and volunteered to plant trees over the weekend for National Tree Day.

National Tree Day: THIS WEEK!

Date: 21-Jul-08
Author: Karen Billington
This Friday 25th July is Schools Tree Day and this Sunday 27th July is National Tree Day. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers will plant native trees and shrubs as a part of this year's effort to get growing.

Dr Katrina Warren digs in for National Tree Day

Date: 07-Jul-08
Author: Karen Billington
Celebrity Vet Katrina Warren and her dog Toby are big supporters of National Tree Day.

Launch of the Get Growing Education kit

Date: 07-Jul-08
Author: Karen Billington
Planet Ark is please to announce the launch of its Get Growing education kit for primary schools. Find out more...

Primary Schools can 'Get Growing!' with our free Environmental Education Kit

Date: 01-Jul-08
Author: Caroline Jones
Planet Ark Environmental Foundation is delighted to announce the release of its 'Get Growing!' Environmental Education Kit for primary schools.

The countdown to National Tree Day is on!

Date: 30-Jun-08
Author: Michelle Cook
With less than a month to go before National Tree Day arrives, Students from Banks Public School and Epping West Public School in Sydney braved a cold winters night to kick-off the countdown to the big day!

Join in with Arbor Week and Tree Day in Victoria

Date: 25-Jun-08
Author: Caroline Jones
This week Victoria celebrates Arbor Week, an annual week of planting native species of plants combined with environmental education activities.

One Month To Go...

Date: 23-Jun-08
Author: Karen Billington
National Tree Day 2008 is well under way with only one month to go before Schools Tree Day and National Tree Day

Competition Winners

Date: 23-Jun-08
Author: Karen Billington
Congratulations to the winners of the 2007 Saving Endangered Ecosystem Award

National Tree Day launches on World Environment Day 5th June

Date: 02-Jun-08
Author: Karen Billington
National Tree Day launches today, World Environment Day Thursday 5th June.

Fifi and the Flowertots

Date: 23-May-08
Author: Karen Billington
Schools Tree Day has a new ambassador. It's Fifi! from Fifi and the Flowertots. Fifi currently spends most of her day on Nick Jnr and ABC Kids but has set aside some time from her busy schedule to join us at the Schools Tree Day Sydney media site on July 25th and has also recorded a special Television Ad just for Schools Tree Day. You can read a special message from Fifi and view her picture here...

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