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Jackson Peak is a local 15-year-old who has been involved with a couple of environmental clean ups and has teamed up with his gran to work with church volunteers to do environmental work.
Channel Magazine: What is the latest change you made to benefit the environment?
Jackson Peak: Picking up pieces of rubbish around school to make it a cleaner place and have less litter going in to the oceans and polluting them.
CM: Name three things people can do to have a positive environmental impact in their daily lives.
JP:
CM: Please share a favourite local environmental initiative you know about
JP: Going to the cleanups for Sustainable Coastlines or Auckland City Council clean-ups in my area at the beach and the mangroves. I have done some of these with the Duke of Edinburgh [programme] and completed some of my own with neighbours and friends.
CM: Who is your eco hero?
JP: My eco hero is Sir David Attenborough because he does so much to show everyone the environment and promote sustainability and trying to help the global problems in the environment.