{"id":4710,"date":"2010-10-07T03:57:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T19:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/students-spruce-up-koala-park\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:06:35","slug":"students-spruce-up-koala-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/students-spruce-up-koala-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Green thumbs to spruce up koala park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A band of Curtin green thumbs will tend to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cohunu.com.au\/\"><strong>Cohunu Koala Park<\/strong><\/a> as part of the 11th annual John Curtin Weekend which enters its second week on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Third-year Chemical Engineering student Melissa Gilbert will drive the 10 volunteers in a minibus to the park, located in Byford 45 minutes drive south of Perth.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6276\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/13\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Cohuna-2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6276 \" title=\"Cohuna 2009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/13\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Cohuna-2009-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers encounter an emu during last year&#039;s John Curtin Weekend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a number of international students who may not have seen koalas and kangaroos before,&#8221; Ms Gilbert said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s only a day trip which makes it easier for a lot of people who have a lot of work to do the week after.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grooming the park&#8217;s miniature horses, landscaping the koala enclosure and tree planting are on the agenda for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Gilbert said gardening would not be the only skill picked up by the <em>Curtin Volunteers! 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