School kids plant a climate change adapted forest

Reforestation by kids from the "Josef-Schöffel" secondary school

In autumn 2019 5th-graders have planted "their" sustainable forest with trees that are suitable for a global warming future.

In 2019, students of the Josef-Schöffel secondary school have planted more than thirty oak trees in the spirit of a more climate-friendly forest. During the current school year and in the years to come, the students will have enough time to visit "their" little trees regularly and to deal with the topic of sustainability during further joint forest excursions with the forest educators of the nature park.

Together with these students, the Purkersdorf Nature Park thus sets an example for the next generation.

For the school year 2021/22, the nature park plans another planting campaign with the incoming 5th-graders classes in the area of the Kellerwiese, where several diseased ash trees had to be cut at the beginning of 2020 for safety reasons. Here, the lime tree ("Tree of the Year 2021"), will play a major role.