Tree planting for World Environment Day

World Environment Day (5th June) is celebrated every year on St Helena with a week of activities co-ordinated by the Environmental Planning Department. This year’s theme was Climate Change – melting ice…a hot topic. At the Millennium Forest we hosted tree planting. Three days were set aside for planting by the first and primary schools. Wet weather led to the cancellation of one visit but it was able to go ahead a week later. The planting was a great success and marked our next expansion into the area of Bilberry Field Gut adjacent to Bottom Woods Field and close to the Weather Station.

Donations received

It is always a exciting to receive donations to the Millennium Forest however big or small because it means that others share our vision and passion to re-establish former native forests on St Helena and that the trees established so far are an inspiration to others to support further planting.

We reported in the last newsletter that passengers and crew of the Hebridean Spirit visited the Millennium Forest to view the ‘Hebridean Spirit copse’ in April 2007 that had been established by donations received from passengers and crew of the previous voyage to the island in March 2006. This year’s visit inspired passengers to raise just short of £1,000 for the forest for which we are extremely grateful. An additional donation of £500 was received from Keith Cook on his return to the UK. We have also received £500 from Cathy Hopkins to plant trees in memory of Mervyn Bell, and donations of £250 each from John Blanche and Peter Johnston for tree planting. Thank you to all.

from Dr.Rebecca Cairns-Wicks

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