You’ll never guess, but it was a snake. Sadly, this wasn’t a British snake – well, not a native one – it was a common garter snake from North America. This is what Arkive has to say about it: “The common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) is a long, slender North American snake with a colourful…
You can now join Butterfly Conservation for free. Use promo code NEWYR16 and you’ll enjoy 12 months free membership, giving you the chance to find out more about Butterfly Conservation’s fantastic work – and what you can do to help. BC will send you a welcome pack to get you started, including information about their reserves, and ideas for creating…
Yet another anti-litter campaign has been launched, this time to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday. It is supported by environmental reporting service, Love Clean Streets. LCS is urging people to report environmental issues by using a smart phone App which makes it easy to report issues. To get involved, you will need to download the app, and then when you come across…
Defra has announced 23 new marine conservation zones around England. The 23 new zones stretch from Northumberland to Land’s End to Cumbria and include Europe’s longest chalk reef off Cromer in Norfolk. Together with the 27 MCZs created in 2013, the total is still below the 127 proposed by an earlier consultation. The Guardian reported that marine environment minister George Eustice,…
Did you know that it’s estimated that up to 100,000 wildfowl die each year by ingesting lead ammunition, left on the ground after shooting? Lead is toxic, which is why it’s been removed from paint and petrol, but it’s still used in shooting and at least 2,000 tonnes of lead pellets are left scattered across fields every…
Growing a Greener Britain is a charity that has been set up to help fund community projects in publicly-owned parks and open spaces. Its objectives are Creating improvements to free, publicly accessible green space Providing local employment opportunities through the creation of maintenance projects Providing training and work experience opportunities for those in the local community Promoting of…
Here’s a feature from the Independent on the lack of flooding in Pickering, North Yorkshire. Although there are no pictures of Pickering (this one seems to be of Carlisle) that’s the point, the Independent says, as a range of preventative actions, mostly working with the grain of nature, resulted in no flooding in the town…
The lands on which we construct and expand our growing cities, alongside our farms that we push to be ever more productive, have been devastated by pollution and erosion – contamination in lots of different vocabularies. This guide is an answer to ‘how we can make amends’. It is both a practical reparations toolkit ‘and’…
The Wildlife Trusts website has an informative section on the history of each of the 47 Wildlife Trusts. And there’s a page devoted to 100 years in pictures of the Wildlife Trusts’ work.
If so, then look at the GlobalCarbonAtlas. It is hard to do justice in words to the richness of the data that this site has to offer by way of per-country emissions. Not only can you look at total emissions, but at the contribution of different fuels as well. Then you can change the data to…
The deadline for applying for fieldwork funding with the Frederick Soddy Trust Schools Award Scheme is January 18th. The Trust was established in 1957 under the terms set out in the will of the chemist and Nobel Laureate, Professor Frederick Soddy FRS. It aims to encourage interest in field studies by providing modest financial support for expeditions…
Eco-Schools has announced the nine schools that will hold its Ambassador role for the next two years. These are the exceptional schools across England that have been chosen to represent the Eco Schools programme, and encourage new schools to join. To be considered for the role, the schools must have held the Eco-Schools Green Flag award for four consecutive years. The idea…