Don’t let Earth Day, today, April 22, pass you by without making plans to do something to make the planet a healthier place.
For Tri-City residents, helping out with the removal of invasive plant species in local parks is a great activity and held promote native plant species.
This Saturday, April 27, the Lower Mainland Green Team is hosting an Earth Day event at Shoreline Park in Port Moody.
Meet at 9:45 a.m. on the Shoreline trail behind the rotary Sk8 park (which is between 2902 and 2920 Murray St., Port Moody).
This event will run until 1 p.m. and is an opportunity to find out about environmental issues facing Port Moody parks, meet new people, get exercise, enhance a local park space, increase biodiversity and get volunteer hours.
Training, gardening gloves, tools and refreshments will be provided. As well, there will be a small thank you gift at the end, donated by a local business.
The event is also free.
To find out more and register, visit here.
PoMo isn’t the only city to benefit from Lower Mainland Green Team activities.
Recently, the city of Coquitlam partnered in a habitat restoration project to remove invasive plants at Nelson Creek at Mackin Park.
On April 13, 14 volunteers participated to remove two cubic metres of Himalayan blackberry crowns and picked up three garbage bags of trash they found along the creek.
