THE Great Ocean Road Coast Committee (GORCC) and Geelong Lutheran College have celebrated six years of rehabilitating Whites Gap in Torquay.<\/p>\n
The committee\u2019s education team and Year 9 students in GORCC\u2019S Coast Guardian program began work in Whites Gap when it was just a car park.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow it is developing into some fantastic coastal habitat for animals and plants,\u201d GORCC education leader Hilary Bouma said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great credit to the students that a number of birds are already attracted to the dune site including superb blue wrens, grey shrike thrush, fantails, singing honeyeaters, and also reptiles such as the jacky dragon have been seen at the site.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of a day of coastal education projects last month, the the students then travelled to Point Roadknight in Anglesea, where Great Ocean Road Coast\u2019s Possum Pete and Ms Bouma took the students to see Hooded Plover nests, discovering three new eggs.<\/p>\n
The day ended with a trip to northern Lorne for an afternoon learning about habitat, coastal management and hands-on weeding with GORCC\u2019s conservation team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very proud of all the Geelong Lutheran College students who have helped to rehabilitate this site as part of the Coast Guardians Program,\u201d Geelong Lutheran College principal Barry Krueger said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great accomplishment and something each of them can look back on proudly, and hopefully share with their friends and family for years to come when they visit the site in Torquay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coast Guardians is GORCC\u2019s flagship environmental education program, tailored towards year 9 students protecting the coast.<\/p>\n
It is an ongoing program that schools participate in throughout the year on one particular site to help foster ownership and enhance their understanding of the location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE Great Ocean Road Coast Committee (GORCC) and Geelong Lutheran College have celebrated six years of rehabilitating Whites Gap in Torquay. The committee\u2019s education team and Year 9 students in GORCC\u2019S Coast Guardian program began work in Whites Gap when it was just a car park. \u201cNow it is developing into some fantastic coastal habitat […]<\/p>\n