Pollinator Garden Donation Compliments JCP&L's Tree Donation Efforts
Pollinator Garden Donation Compliments JCP&L's Tree Donation Efforts
A new pollinator garden in Monmouth County will provide a safe haven for vital animals and insects that help keep our planet healthy and serve as a living classroom in the process.
蒙茅斯縣的新授粉花園將爲重要的動物和昆蟲提供安全的避風港，這些動物和昆蟲有助於保持我們的星球健康，並在此過程中充當活生生的教室。
Nearly a dozen members of Jersey Central Power & Light's (JCP&L) Green Team volunteered to plant the garden, donated by its parent company FirstEnergy, at Howell's Aldrich Elementary School on April 12. They were joined by students who ventured out to watch as part of a science lesson along with school and district administrators.
4月12日，澤西中央電力與照明公司（JCP&L）綠色團隊的近十二名成員自願在豪威爾奧爾德里奇小學種植花園，該花園由其母公司FirstEnergy捐贈。作爲科學課的一部分冒險出去觀看的學生以及學校和地區管理人員也加入了他們的行列。
Many pollinator populations are in decline due to a loss in feeding and nesting habitats, according to the nonprofit organization Pollinator Partnership. These insects and small animals, such as birds, bats, bees, butterflies and beetles, pollinate plants and help sustain the ecosystem. Plants play a crucial role in providing natural resources, like fruits and vegetables, and preventing soil erosion. They also store carbon dioxide, helping clean the atmosphere.
根據非營利組織Pollinator Partnership的數據，由於覓食和築巢棲息地的流失，許多授粉媒介的種群正在減少。這些昆蟲和小動物，例如鳥、蝙蝠、蜜蜂、蝴蝶和甲蟲，爲植物授粉，幫助維持生態系統。植物在提供水果和蔬菜等自然資源和防止水土流失方面起着至關重要的作用。它們還儲存二氧化碳，有助於清潔大氣層。
"Pollinators are desperately in need of safe habitats as more and more areas are developed. Planting this garden here in an area where it can thrive and is educational for the kids in our community was an easy choice," said Ray Vender, Advanced Forestry Specialist at FirstEnergy and the chair of JCP&L's Green Team.
“隨着越來越多的地區的開發，授粉者迫切需要安全的棲息地。FirstEnergy高級林業專家、JCP&L綠色團隊主席雷·文德爾說，在可以茁壯成長且對我們社區的孩子有教育意義的地區種植這個花園是一個簡單的選擇。
Photos of JCP&L Green Team volunteers planting the pollinator garden can be found on the company's Flickr page.
JCP&L Green Team 志願者種植授粉花園的照片可以在該公司的網站上找到 Flickr 頁面。
The Green Team planted 15 varieties of native flowering plants and grasses, such as serviceberry, goldenrod, coneflower, bayberry, butterfly weed and red buds. Additionally, all of the students at the school each received a sapling and a packet of FirstEnergy's "Bee The Change" seed mix. The mix is one of two the company developed with a horticulturist in Meadville, Pennsylvania, to aid in developing pollinator-friendly habitats.
綠色團隊種植了15種本土開花植物和草，例如服務莓、金羅德、針葉花、楊梅、蝴蝶大麻和紅芽。此外，學校的所有學生都收到了一棵樹苗和一包FirstEnergy的 “Bee The Change” 種子混合物。該混合物是該公司與賓夕法尼亞州米德維爾的一位園藝家共同開發的兩種混合物之一，旨在幫助開發對授粉者有利的棲息地。
To help protect pollinators, FirstEnergy aims to develop 225 acres of new pollinator habitats across its five-state service territory by 2025. With 214 acres already seeded as of the end of 2023, the company is well on its way to achieving that goal.
爲了幫助保護授粉者，FirstEnergy 的目標是 開發 225 英畝的新授粉者棲息地 到2025年，覆蓋其五州服務區。截至2023年底，該公司已經播種了214英畝土地，正在朝着實現這一目標邁進。
Just yards away from the school's new pollinator garden, trees are growing along a hillside – another donation from FirstEnergy that was planted by JCP&L Green Team volunteers in October after a tornado damaged dozens of trees last April.
在離學校新的授粉者花園只有幾碼遠的地方，山坡上生長着樹木——FirstEnergy的另一筆捐款是 由 JCP&L Green Team 志願者於 10 月種植 去年四月龍捲風損壞了數十棵樹木之後。
The pollinator garden donations are an expansion of FirstEnergy's tree planting donations. Since April 2021, FirstEnergy has planted and donated more than 67,000 trees through its service territory, including more than 3,200 in New Jersey just last year.
授粉者花園的捐款是對FirstEnergy植樹捐款的擴展。自2021年4月以來，FirstEnergy已通過其服務區種植和捐贈了超過67,000棵樹，包括 新澤西州超過 3,200 就在去年。
Learn more about FirstEnergy's commitment to the environment at firstenergycorp.com/environment.html.
要了解有關FirstEnergy對環境的承諾的更多信息，請訪問 firstenergycorp.com/environment.ht。