The Royal Society of Biology [RSB] hopes you do because then you’ll be able to take part in its national poll to find the nation’s favourite insect. Its website says: “Insects are vital for human life on earth but are often overlooked. There are over 20,000 insect species found in the UK, but which…
The NAEE web team thinks that it’s the environment on planet earth, and our dependency on it for the quality of our lives, that should be our most pressing concerns, given its parlous state. However, that doesn’t mean that we don’t think about what’s going on outside the biosphere. Here’s an animation from the European Space Agency illustrating Andreas Mogensen’s…
On Thursday 6 and Friday 7 August, Martineau Gardens is hosting an outdoor production of Hamlet by Folksy Theatre; it starts at 1830. The production will be filled with live folk music and visitors are welcome to bring picnics, blankets and folding chairs. Clearly, when Hamlet says: “Fie on’t! ah fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, that grows…
With a great destination at the end of the journey It’s five years since I wrote about our first granddaughter Lily scooting to school. Time seems to move on so quickly but she still uses the scooter as her fast transport. Looking further back to several more years I can clearly remember on a day…
Allison Price, with contributions from Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Conservation Education Committee, asks: How can we mobilize a national network for improved conservation education? Imagine you have a network of educators distributed at more than 225 zoos and aquariums throughout North America. It’s a pretty diligent group that serves more than 400,000 teachers and reaches 15…
Project Dirt asks: do you live in Redditch? If so, you can join Sustrans volunteers to celebrate the National Cycle Network’s 20th birthday with a ride and picnic in Redditch, starting from the Arrow Park Visitor Centre. Here is a map. And you can read more about the 20 year cycle network celebrations if you…
If you like having fun, getting muddy knees, and getting to know your wild neighbours, this may be the course for you. Workshops, on Saturday August 22nd and Sunday 23rd will try to bring out the Sherlock Holmes in you. Through a range of exercises and games, you can explore how to recognise different tracks and…
NAEE President, Bill Scott, met Dhaval Patel from the Voluntary Nature Conservancy, VNC, last week to talk about environmental education in India and the UK. VNC is based in Vallabh Vidhyanagar in Gujarat, and began its work as a charitable foundation in 1988. Its activities are wide-ranging, including: Nature Education Camps An Outdoor Experiential Educational Programme Observational Outing on Sunday Mornings A Reptile…
From the Soil Association: After a very successful glyphosate scientific briefing in Westminster (See this), the Association has launched its ‘Not in our bread’ petition to tell major supermarkets and bread manufacturers that we don’t want glyphosate residues in what we eat. A link to their petition is here, or you can share via the Soil Association Facebook page and…
This summer holiday, children can discover their inner adventurer by becoming a Nature Explorer at Slimbridge Wetland Centre. Little explorers can follow in the footsteps of Scott of the Antarctic (father of WWT’s founder Sir Peter Scott) by going on wild adventures and recording them in an official WWT Nature Explorer passport. They can collect stickers…
Once I began to read this book, I could not put it down – and that for me is one sign of a really good book! The introduction all rings true, giving important rationale points and highlighting what teachers already have: ‘the skills and competencies to teach outside as well as inside. … any approach…
You can read comments about the outcomes of the sustainable schools conference in Bristol on the SSA website. These are from headteacher Neil Jones, who’s a member of the SSA management board, and a SEEd Trustee. Neil blogs here. His comments begin … The National Sustainable Schools Conference was held at Bristol University Students Union on July 2nd. This year…