Jonathan Ayres - September 18, 2024 - Warrnambool Standard - video Dailymotion

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00:00Jonathan why are you running for council? I'll be running for council to be a

00:04voice for Mother Nature. Mother Nature is not something you're into but what you

00:10are a part of. So whatever projects are going to be proposed in council I think

00:15it's absolutely important that someone is looking at it from the perspective of

00:19Mother Nature. We can always incorporate more and sometimes less is more but not

00:26in the case of nature. And so why should people vote for you? At the moment I don't

00:32think that there is quite a voice or candidate who would be looking at the

00:37nature perspective as much as me. Being a local arborist I spend the majority of

00:40my week up in trees thinking, reflecting and feeling what it feels like to be nature and if appointed or elected I promise to maintain that

00:53mentality. And what would some of your priorities be? The linking between the

00:58youth, so school or any young people anywhere, and the elderly especially on

01:03our farms. We're losing a big connection between the farmers who are working this

01:09land, who have spent countless hours, tears, sweat and blood to observe and learn and nurture their own

01:19specific land and I think we can bridge that gap and we can add a lot more

01:24projects like food forests and really just get a lot of trees in the ground

01:29and make it a bit more of an interactive space so people everywhere can walk,

01:33learn and also eat.