World Environment Day - Catholic schools make time for nature

World Environment Day, celebrated each year on June 5, is the most renowned day for environmental action.

This year the theme is biodiversity – a concern that is both urgent and existential. Recent events, from the bushfires in Australia, the US and Brazil, to locust infestations across East Africa – and now, a global disease pandemic – demonstrate the interdependence of humans and the webs of life, in which we all exist.

As we enter into a week celebrating the World Environment, we want to highlight how some of our schools are caring for our earth.

How lucky are our students at St Columba's Catholic College having our very own farm onsite.

Check out the chickens, roosters, llamas and cows. They are so well cared for.

Bede Polding College Agriculture students have been busy replanting their gardens in the lead up to Environment Week.

Holy Family Primary School East Granville have been learning about the environment.