Dr Elsa Lee reviews What the Oak Tree Sees by AK Scott & RM Brink This beautiful, whimsical and nostalgic picture book answers a question my children and I often ask of an oak tree in the village that we call home. This tree has been a place of refuge for us as a family since we arrived…
Florence Gichoya African Conservation Centre After decades of conservation research in various landscapes in Kenya, a small group of Kenyan nationals founded the African Conservation Centre (ACC) in 1995. ACC’s work is mainly focused in four landscape areas in Kenya: Amboseli, Maasai Mara, Laikipia and the South Rift. These areas have the richest vertebrate diversity…
Throughout the two weeks of COP26, Stop Climate Chaos Scotland published a range of guest blogs on the importance of centring nature in the climate discussion, the vital significance of loss and damage funding, and the radical change that is needed for transport as we confront the climate crisis. You can read all their blogs on the news section of the…
Today’s post is by Tessa Willy, who is Deputy Programme Lead for the Primary PGCE at the Institute of Education University College London. In this Tessa looks at the potential contained within the DfE’s Sustainability and Climate Change strategy and at some of the problems associated with it. As ever with NAEE blogs, the views…
Cutting Edge – This year’s Edge Foundation’s Annual Lecture focused on the need to integrate the environment into the education system. The speakers were Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project, George Lamb founder of GROW, a new environmental education programme that offers London-based pupils the chance to farm and learn mindfulness training, and Shaun McInerney, the Senior Project Coordinator of Ashoka Changemaker Education. It…
Sue Shanks reviews Darwin Comes to Town: How the urban jungle drives evolution by Menno Schilthuizen Darwin comes to Town is a thoroughly researched book delving into the many ways that plants and animals are exploiting the habitats which are available in our urban landscapes and through these interaction are themselves undergoing evolutionary adaptations in a relatively…
Molly Toal, Lancashire Wildlife Trust The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside (otherwise known as LWT) have been running their Forest School Project in Manchester since 2015 and in Liverpool since 2017. Project officers work with urban schools for a year, delivering free Forest School sessions, offering accredited Level 3 Forest School Leadership training…
Henricus Peters reviews Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man’s Quest to Rewild Britain’s Waterways by Derek Gow The author image on the back flap reminds me of (sometimes controversial) television botanist Dr David Bellamy, a past president of our NAEE who passed away in 2019. A reasonably burly figure with a bushy white beard set on…
Andrew Millham Freelance Nature Writer The Cameron Bespolka Trust is a charity that has been set up in Cameron’s memory to inspire young people to love and appreciate nature. Cameron loved nature, especially birds. When young people experience nature, it gives them the opportunity to learn and fall in love with it. What do we…
Today’s post is by Catherine Gemmell, the Marine Conservation Societies Scotland Conservation Officer whose work ranges over education and public engagement to campaigns and policy. Over the past four years Catherine has mainly been focusing on the promotion of the beach cleaning and litter surveying project, Beachwatch, and using the data collected to drive change in marine litter…
Goodbye 2021 – You can see SOS-UK’s review of the year on YouTube. They say: “From ethical finance to sustainable food, from fuel poverty to ESD, from wellbeing to youth-led campaigns and more, we’ve reached hundreds of thousands of people. We’re looking forward to continuing our work towards environmental justice through education in 2022.” . Partnerships Policy – SOS-UK believes in supporting students and society to…
A Curriculum for Wales – We mentioned Llanfhidian school lasy week as it’s a pilot school for the Curriculum for Wales initiative. You can see videos about the new curriculum here and here. And this is a link to an OECD webinar focused on the new curriculum. . University Degrees – The 2021 People & Planet University league table is now on-line, and you can see ‘successes’ and…