Groundswell Collective volunteers have planted 16 tiny forests in schools and parks across NSW. Photo: PR IMAGE PHOTO

Living in one of Australia's fastest growing regional areas, Anna Noon was watching in despair as nature made way for sprawling housing developments.

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"There was a lot of land clearing happening," she says of her home at Lake Macquarie in the rapidly-expanding NSW Hunter region.

"I knew that was leading to habitat loss, species extinction and exacerbating climate change."

Former social worker Anna Noon re-trained in sustainable living to found The Groundswell Collec

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