The Rotary Club of Melville (RCM) has supported Mr Bruce Ivers in his ecosystem restoration work with school students and community groups. In the last 17 years, Mr Ivers has taken 6,800 students on tree planting excursions and camps, planting in excess of 510,000 seedlings. RCM has had an important role in Mr Ivers success.
Presentation Wednesday 12 November 2025
- In 2017, the year following the disastrous Yarloop bushfire, ten Perth schools, including Ardross Primary School, planted 20,000 seedlings in Shire of Harvey reserves around the town of Yarloop with the help of RCM.
- From 2018 to now, RCM has supported Mr Ivers in a coastal dune restoration project at the village of Myalup where 1,300 school students have planted in excess of 100,000 seedlings to stabilise the dunes.
- In 2021, Mr Ivers organised a planting project on two farms near Katanning that involved Year 12 students from Katanning Senior High School, and Members of RCM, planting 17,000 salt tolerant seedlings in saline land.
- Closer to home RCM has supported planting projects at Ken Hurst Park, Leeming and Blackwall Reach Reserve, Bicton, the latter involving students from Ardross Primary School and Santa Maria College.
- RCM successfully applied for a $20,000 grant from the federal government to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The seedlings were planted at Blackwall Reach Reserve by Santa Maria students over the last three years, supported by the club. Watering new seedlings by club members and community volunteers has taken place for the last two summers with increasing success.
