The Greater Victoria Green Team with funding support from District of Oak Bay Community Grants program and Canada Post Foundation, organized 30 GVGT volunteers at Uplands Park! We removed invasive Spurge-laurel (Daphne) from this important Garry Oak habitat.
Thank-you so much to everyone who participated: Alice, Alisa, Brian, Catherine, Colin, Connie, Cynthia, Deanna, Emma, Helena, Jackie, Jill, Joe, Langqing, Linh, Louise, Melissa, Miaoju, Monica, Nancy, Rachael, Ricardo, Shuyao, Stephen, Steve, Tianjiao, Wenbo, Xinyi, Zhiyuan and Zihan!
Also thank you to the Friends of Uplands Park for all the work you do in restoring the important habitat in Uplands Park! Check them on Facebook HERE
Thank you to our in-kind sponsors for providing thank you gifts to our volunteers: LUSH Cosmetics for providing great bath items!
Amazing Team of Eco-heroes!
PHOTO ALBUM FROM THE EVENT IS FOUND HERE
Highlights
- 30 GVGT volunteers were engaged and contributed 90 volunteer hours
- 22 of the volunteers had never removed Daphne before!
- 20 of the volunteers had never been to Uplands Park before.
- We removed approximately 4 cubic metres of invasive plants from an area measuring approx. 100 square metres!
Before and After photos
Volunteers in Action
