Pick Me is not just about providing alternatives to plastic packaging.
We are excited to partner with Trees For Life to help plant more trees and rehabilitate important areas within South Australia.
Trees For Life is a proudly South Australian not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to improve the health and extent of South Australia’s natural landscapes. They do this through growing and planting native plant species back into cleared areas to help reduce soil erosion, protect remaining original vegetation, and create new forest areas. Their important work helps create a more diverse, vibrant, and beautiful natural environment all species can enjoy.
Trees for Life was founded on the principle that if you want something to change you have to take action yourself to make it happen, this is a statement that also resonates with us here at Pick Me! They have accrued an impressive resume of achievements so far, which is why we think that they are the perfect organisation to partner with to help us complete the carbon life-cycle.
Trees For Life
The revegetation areas
Proceeds that are sent to Trees for Life from Pick Me products will go towards revegetating two areas in the South Australian Riverland region. The riverland region is South Australia’s primary production area for citrus fruits, including a lot of the mandarins that you’ll find in Pick Me punnets. Though these farming areas are important for the South Australian fresh produce industry, they have also been subject to mass clearing over the years. This is why it is so important to begin planting new native flora into these areas.
Revegetation in these areas helps to protect existing natural landscapes and the native species within them, contributes to sustainable farming practices, and also creates a more beautiful natural landscape for all to enjoy.
Paringa revegation area
The Paringa revegetation area is located along the Murray River just west of Remark. This area is one of South Australia prime citrus growing areas, and where the mandarins used in the Pick Me product are grown.
Saving the Regent Parrot
Trees For Life is working with landholders in this area to create a safe flight path for the Regent Parrot (Polytelis anthopeplus). These beautiful birds are sadly under threat from a range of factors including clearance of mallee vegetation, drought, human disturbance and disease.
Regent parrots have three essential habitat requirements: nest trees, foraging areas and well vegetated flight corridors. Monitoring has shown that Regent Parrots appear to be reluctant to fly over open areas where they are likely at risk of being vulnerable to predation.
Through direct seeding Trees for Life will create a vegetation corridor between their feeding and nesting sites along the River Murray and an existing patch of mallee woodland. The revegetation will comprise a broad range of locally occurring species that, together, will provide important sources of protection and food