The Australian Football League is known for hard men and harder hits , but this club has a soft spot when it comes to the environment . The club has helped lead more than 200,000 citizens to join in Australia ’ s National Tree Day . Each July 27 , the Adelaide Crows players join local schoolchildren and volunteers in a planning effort to provide more habitat for wild animals and offset carbon emissions . The kids get to meet their heroes and learn to care for the environment at the same time . To date , more than 23mn trees have been planted throughout Australia .

34 September 2017