Thank you so much Greater Victoria Green Team participants for your hard work and enthusiasm:
Ademola, Alonso, Ania, Asher, Atousa, Carlos, Cindy, Darlene, Devin, Emiko, Grey, Ida, Iheoma, Isabella, Jack, Jordan, Juanita, Karycia, Kehinde, Makayla, Maria, Matt, Mauricio, Max, Mieka, Milo, Muen, Nezvith, Olushola, Quinlan, Rhys, Rosanna, Sabrina, Shahan, Shean, Sidney, Theo, Tony, Trentin, Tristan, and Wayne!
What a fun day we had connecting people to one another and nature, all while restoring habitat! Keep on reading to find impacts, highlights and more from the day…
Impacts
- 45 community members engaged
- 135 hours contributed to habitat restoration
- 20 people removed invasive plants for the first time
- 15 people visited this Protected Area for the first time
- 12 cubic metres (75 bathtubs full) of invasive plants removed
- 1,000 square metres (2.25 basketball courts) of habitat revitalized
Highlights
- This was our first activity in partnership with the Town of View Royal this year!
- We removed invasive Himalayan blackberry, daphne, and Scotch broom
- Everyone loved the hot chocolate, homemade sugar cookies & banana bread as a fun snack to keep energy levels up!
- Community members Trentin, Rhys, Max, Carlos, and Maria helped us with pack up: thank you for your help!
- Community members enjoyed the additional education provided by our new plant signs, learning about identification in a fun, creative way!
- One of our community members, Trentin, brought his drone to record some aerial footage of the team in action!
- It was a chilly day but the weather held up for us keeping the rain away!
- People joined this activity from all over the world and had fun connecting with each other.
- All ages, backgrounds, and experience levels were engaged including families, returning Green Team members, and first-timers!
Community Investment Partner
A huge THANK YOU to the Town of View Royal for partnering with our charity, Green Teams of Canada, and making this activity possible with their financial support and direction!
Thank you especially to Chris for helping facilitate the activity!
Together we are achieving our common goals and creating connected, healthy and resilient communities engaged in environmental stewardship.
In-Kind Support
Thank you to the fantastic local eco-friendly business LUSH that donated In-kind products for our hard-working community members to take home!
Please contact Kaitlin Warren. if you are interested in providing in-kind.
Why We Do This Work
The Greater Victoria Green Team organizes hands-on educational activities that have a positive environmental impact to empower people. Through activities such as invasive plant removals, plantings, litter cleanups and more, we are fostering connections with others and nature so that health and well-being is prioritized, lifelong environmental stewardship is promoted, and community members are enabled to take care of themselves, each other and the places they live. We all have the power to make a difference!
We all experience mental and physical health benefits from spending time in nature, including reduced stress and anxiety, and improved mood, focus, memory and more. While doing so, we can also have a positive impact on the environment as demonstrated through this activity!
Staff Who Made This Activity Possible
Greater Victoria Green Team Program Manager, Kaitlin Warren and Program Coordinator, Severine Tyszewicz, work hard behind the scenes to bring these high-quality activities to you.
Partnership building, outreach, social media, activity logistics, leading on-the-ground, reporting on impacts and more – they can do it all!
Severine was hired as part of Green Teams of Canada’s Youth Leadership Program, intended to empower the next generation of environmentally-focused community organizing.