Local conservation groups have come together to launch a quarry rehabilitation project in Sangre Grande.

In a statement to social media, environmental group IAMovement said volunteers as well as members of United Way Trinidad and Tobago National Day of Caring gathered at the National Quarries Sand and Gravel site in Sangre Grande where they began a replanting project in a bid to restore the quarry through the IWEco Quarry Rehabilitation project.

The group said a total of 4,000 vetiver plants, 75 trees were planted. The groups also laid out organic material on the ground to create topsoil including grass and tree cuttings, wood chips, sawdust, Sargassum seaweed and spent grain from Carib Brewery.

The group said over the next four years members of the local community will take action to convert the quarry.

“Quarries don’t get rehabilitated in one day – but what is most exciting is that this is just the beginning! Over the next 4 years, members of Turure and surrounding communities will become trained and certified “Quarry Rehabilitation Champions” with opportunity for employment until 2021 to rehabilitate a whole lot of degraded quarry lands – targeting between 50 to 100 acres … “