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Sustainability Education
Since 1993 Bullsbrook District High School in Western Australia, has worked with Tiwest Joint venture Mineral Sands Processing Plant, which is a major industry in our semi-rural area.
Mineral Sands Processing Plant
The ecological work has focused on students from the school establishing, revegetating and sustaining two large wetland areas on the site of the processing plant.
Tiwest provided financial help; environmental consultancy; major equipment and thousands of tree seedlings and bushes, while the students aged 12-17 have progressively worked on their wetland areas each year, planting trees; transplanting reeds; monitoring plant and animal data, and studying a range of ecological aspects of the area.
Creek
In 1995 when the Bullsbrook District High School joined GLOBE, we established a water monitoring site and a second biological site at the eastern end of the main wetland. Here we record the hydrological data and the biological successional stages from bare mud to a fully flourishing wetland environment.
After several unsuccessful attempts to maintain our weather station safely on the school site, all our weather and soil data is now recorded from a data logger at the southern end of the Tiwest property.
Wetland
Exceptionally strong links have been forged between the mineral sands industry, the local community and the school, which have been highly advantageous to everyone.
When the lease on the mineral sands plant runs out, the land will be returned to the community as a recreational area, so our students will enjoy the benefits of their hard work well into the future.
