Habitat Assessment in Woodside
What does wildlife need to thrive in an urban environment? And can a community garden provide everything they need?
Recently, the Year 5/6 students from Woodside Primary School put their detective skills to work at the Woodside Community Garden!
As part of our community nature education work, we joined the class to explore what makes good habitat - and how the places around us can help support wildlife. We started by asking: what does wildlife actually need to call somewhere home?
Then the students split into teams to investigate different clues, checking out the size and health of trees, exploring the quality of understorey vegetation, completing a bird survey and looking at how people use and impact the space.
Finally, we brought all our findings together to answer the big question: is the community garden good habitat for wildlife?
It was a great reminder that conservation isn’t just something that happens in national parks and bushland. Our gardens, schoolyards, parks and community spaces can all provide food, shelter and places for wildlife to live, especially when we plant and care for them with wildlife in mind.
A big thank you to Barb from the Woodside Community Garden for welcoming us, and to the students for getting stuck into their detective work.
