GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - Members of Union High School's Eco Club recently made great strides in neutralising their carbon footprint, by assisting South African National Park (SANParks) to create a spekboom nursery.

This incredible plant is a miracle worker when it comes to fighting air pollution, as it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns it into plant matter.

“In an initiative to propagate new spekboom plants, the Eco Club learners, accompanied by SANParks personnel, visited Mountain Drive near Graaff-Reinet, where they gathered spekboom cuttings and transferred them to seedling trays in the Park's nursery,” said spokesperson for the school Mariëtte Burger.

SANParks will sell these new spekboom plants to generate an income for their nursery and simultaneously reduce CO2 in the atmosphere.

A SANParks employee shows learners how to replant spekboom.

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