Council and REF combine at Humpybong Primary

Council Environment officer, Christy Samorowski and Sonya, her University apprentice from Germany, joined today with REF's David Lergessner to discuss local environments with Year 7 students at Humpybong Primary School.

David resorting to whiteboard and whiteboard marker techniques compressed the 200 million year history of the Peninsula's geological development into 5 minutes and spoke about different scales of ecosystems from world-wide to a local pond before focusing on Redcliffe's local mangrove communities.

Christy picked up on the impact of people on the local environments pointing out the Council's role in removing rubbish from waterways and attempting to prevent sediment washing into the surrounding bays. Christy also spoke of the Council's work in relation to fencing mangroves and koala surveys before introducing students to the Council's new environment website - http://www.redcliffe.qld.gov.au/ENVIRONMENT.HTM

The students were well prepped for the exercise having spent some weeks looking at local environments in particular Humpybong Creek and asked probing questions about the role of Council. The students were very interested in the talks and thanked Christy, Sonya and David for their time.

Special thanks to young Mitchell who operated the technoligical side of things.