The Port Adelaide Football Club will enter an ongoing partnership with community environment group Trees For Life.

Trees For Life will become the Power’s community environment partner, with Port Adelaide promoting the organisation, and helping recruit volunteer tree growers from the Power’s members, supporters, staff and players. Trees For Life will in turn promote the Power to its members.

Power Community Development Manager Darren Adamson says this is a practical partnership which will deliver results for both parties.

“Trees For Life is a very practical environment organisation which focuses on revegetation by growing and planting seedlings in South Australia,” Mr Adamson says.

“We are really pleased to be able to partner with Trees for Life and help draw some attention and hopefully some volunteers to their work.”

Trees For Life was established in 1981 and has 10,000 members, 3000 of whom are active volunteers.

Trees For Life Chief Executive Officer Carmel Dundon says a community partnership with the Port Adelaide Football Club opens the door for more people to do practical things to help the environment.

“We started an alliance with the Power last year through Planet Teal and it’s fantastic that the Power now want to take this one step further by helping their members and supporters take a greater interest in the environment,” Ms Dundon says.

“Port Adelaide Football Club is really taking a hands-on approach and wants to help make a difference.

“South Australia is the most extensively cleared State in Australia and as a result leads the country in plant and animal species extinctions. Power supporters will now be encouraged to join 3000 other volunteers working to reverse this trend by growing seedlings for revegetation projects or helping to conserve our remaining bush land.”

Trees For Life will be present at both this week’s Power match against Hawthorn (on National Tree Day) and also at the round 20 match against Carlton (AFL Green Round).

Since 1981 Trees For Life members, donors and volunteers have:
• Grown 29.5 million native seedlings to plant on cleared land
• Funded direct seeding of native species on 3,500 kilometres of rural land
• Subsidised the planting of 98,000 trees and shrubs to absorb and offset carbon emissions
• Removed noxious weeds and promoted natural recovery on 12,000 hectares of native vegetation that has never been cleared
• Donated $6 million of their time as volunteers annually