2017 - Newsletter

Debe Secondary School Scouts
The Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust has always been actively involved in having
volunteers learn about Environmental Conservation. Annually, the Trust has an
active volunteer and internship programme. From March 2017, the Trust continued
with its role as mentor in environmental conservation with the Debe Secondary
School Scouts Group. To gain their Conservation Badge the Scouts participated in a
number of the Trust's Environmental programmes.
Painting the pots to “show-off” the plants
and their beautiful flowers
Giving the Aviculture Team’s workstation
a ‘face-lift’
On a Nature Walk and exploring the Trust’s Hiking Trail, Forest Walk with
Trust Educator Jaleen West.
Forest Walk, an interpretative trail, designed to focus on the value and linkages of
Forest Trees is used in our Environmental Education Programme. Forests have
sustained life on earth from time immemorial. They supply food, medicine, energy,
shelter, wood and non- wood products. All species of plant life are used in some way
by wildlife and by humans.
Home to many forms of life, they play an essential role environmentally, in
particular to maintain biodiversity, conserve soil and water and stabilize our
climate. They also sustain and are linked to other ecosystems, from plains and
savannahs to wetlands and coral reefs.