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Australia launches 'Green Army' for environment
2014-08-02 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Australia on Saturday launched its 'Green Army' which plans to recruit up to 15,000 young people for projects to conserve and rehabilitate the environment -- the biggest land care mobilisation in the nation's history. Under the scheme, teams of young people will do work such as planting trees, restoring koala habitats, cleaning up creeks and rivers, conserving cultural heritage sites and monitoring threatened species. "The Green Army is on the march from today," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told...
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