My latest blog looks at the research on nature connection and climate anxiety: findingnature.org.uk/2024/04/23/cli…

Great nature restoration and connecting going on at the moment at Ysgol Gymraeg Sant Baruc 👏👏🌳🌳🌳Healthy Schools Vale

Happy #EarthDay2024

Happy #EarthDay ! 🌍

Last week we visited Ysgol Gymraeg Sant Baruc to plant some trees to create a hedgerow using our #FreeTreesForSchools

A big thank you to year 4 for your excellent planting skills!

Get free trees to plant with your school or community here:
woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/sc…

Want your local council to do more to restore nature – to benefit people, wildlife and planet? A few people can make a big difference. Here are 10 tips from community group TheWEGWorcester, which they hope will help and inspire others. Please share! 😊🐝
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/weg.h…

🌼 #Bluebells are beginning to pop up in our woodlands across Wales! These ones were spotted in Graig Fawr.

We are lucky enough to have many beautiful bluebell woods here in Wales, find out where you can experience them through the link below ⬇️
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1. This week’s column is about something we badly want to believe, regardless of the evidence: that livestock farms are benign and harmonious. Why? Mostly, I think, because it chimes with books and cartoons we see as very young children. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Also: a thread

A lower connection to nature is related to lower mental health benefits from nature contact - interesting new paper in Scientific Reports nature.com/articles/s4159…

Wildlife Spotting
Friday 22 March, 10:30 - 12:30
Amelia Trust Farm

Join us for a fun informal session not just spotting and learning about local plant life and wildlife but also how you can help protect them, led by Ai-Lin

To book: eventbrite.co.uk/e/wildlife-spo…

New neighbour hopefully moving in!! 🤞The nestbox is literally the other side of the wall behind the TV. Amazing to watch them at work!

Great to see so many nature themes and events at this years Hay Festival! So important to raise awareness of the nature emergency and how nature restoration and reconnection can be achieved. Tickets and tent plot booked 🙂
Great to see Eurgain Powell on the programme 👏🌳

🐸Amphibian and Reptile Training Webinar
Wed 20 March, 18:30 - 19:30

Hosted by Vale Nature Partnership join Pete Hill from Amphibian and Reptile Conservation for a free online webinar as an introduction to identification, ecology, surveying and conservation of amphibian and reptiles

🐍Book: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/319013c4…

Habitats for frogs, toads & newts are in decline: 50% of ponds were lost during the 20th century – & of those that remain, 80% are in a poor state. So garden ponds are crucial for helping amphibians survive - & they help all sorts of other wildlife too!
bit.ly/48Qej0n

📣Reminder!

Join Vale Nature Partnership tomorrow, Sat 9 March, for a free guided walk around Cosmeston and celebrate the signs of Spring in this beautiful 100-hectare nature reserve, led by Ai-Lin

Sat 9 March, 10:30 - 12:30
Cosmeston Lakes Country Park

Book: eventbrite.co.uk/e/signs-of-spr…

Our Nature Connectedness Policy Briefing is available to download now. Find out more here: findingnature.org.uk/2024/03/07/pol…

Great new resource from the Behavioural Science Unit 👇

'Don’t let our future generations’ connection with nature be severed & replaced by TikToks or YouTube videos of long-lost extinct wildlife'

Tammie Woodland Trust🌳 Youth Council speaks on the importance of trees & woods for Future Gen Cymru

woodlandtrust.org.uk/publications/2…
#NatureRecovery

Both farmers & nature in Wales are under huge pressures, which the Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS) is trying to address.

If done well, it has an opportunity to benefit farming, climate & biodiversity in Wales.

But we recognise it needs to work for Welsh farmers too.

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Around a third of the food we eat, including strawberries, apples and tomatoes, is pollinated by bees. But other insects are fantastic pollinators too! So to help bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other insects, grow nectar-rich plants.
Ideas: bit.ly/49DhTMO
#nature

Counting butterflies for calm, connection, and conservation - summary of our latest research with Butterfly Conservation 🦋 just published in Biological Conservation: findingnature.org.uk/2024/03/05/cou…