Groundwork East Get Wild
Groundwork East has launched the new ‘Get Wild’ videos! The videos are packed with outdoor activities that parents and children can do in their garden or local green space. They can be done in all weathers and are a great way of getting children to use the outdoors as a place to play and learn.…
Natural Capital Initiative
Natural Capital Initiative Spring newsletter 2021 This spring we been thinking and talking about the Dasgupta Review on the economics of biodiversity and what it means for the science and policy communities. The NCI has offered its natural capital priorities for coping with change while we wait for the “super year for nature” to pick up…
Tourism and outdoor leisure accounts,
natural capital, UK: 2021
Great new report published today Office of National Statistics. Have been to several meetings over the past few weeks and the need to update data on value of the natural environment to Tourism is now becoming important. This goes a way to bringing new data. The main points are Nature contributed an estimated £12 billion…
‘The Time Is Now’ to tackle Climate Change
Make sure to add Wednesday 26 June to your calendar and join thousands of organisations and individuals in London to tell our Politicians that now is the time to take action on climate change. ‘The Time Is Now’ is brought together by a variety of organisations that have one common passion: they want to protect…
‘Back from the Brink’ Film & Photography Competition is open for entries!
Back from the Brink competition: Are you a creative individual with a passion for wildlife? Back from the Brink is looking for inspiring entries for their film and photography competition to help raise awareness, or celebrate the beauty of our precious wildlife and landscapes. Back from the Brink states there are 8 different film categories and 4…
‘Only Rain Down the Drain’ in Yellow Fish Campaign
This month we have an introduction to an exciting local initiative in Suffolk, supported by Groundwork East, which has the aim of reducing surface water pollution across 6 towns in our County. Ourselves at Wild Anglia are keen to help and support the environment and local communities where we can, including helping to increase awareness…
Norwich and Norfolk Eco Awards 2018-19 are open for entries!
Entries are now open for the eleventh Norwich and Norfolk Eco Awards! The award scheme, hosted jointly by Norfolk County Council and Norwich City Council, recognises unsung environmental individuals, projects and schemes with a strong ecological or environmentally-friendly ethos, and groups and organisations which can show they adopt a sound eco approach to their business.…
Connecting Wild Words and Actions
The sober assessment of Britain’s battered wildlife, as reported in the State of Nature Report of 2016, prompts a resuscitated call for new approaches to acting on wild words. There is an irony here. We are facing possibly the most serious disruption of long standing wildlife habitat in a generation, bearing in mind that throughout…
‘Choose to Refuse’ during Plastic Free July – Claire’s Journey
Did you know scientists estimate that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans? About half of all plastic produced is for single-use or disposable items such as packaging. This month is ‘Plastic Free July’, a global movement that dramatically reduces plastic use and improves recycling, worldwide. It began with a…
World Environment Day: Beat Plastic Pollution
World Environment Day, an initiative by the United Nations Environment Programme, is a worldwide movement for encouraging awareness and this year the theme is combating plastic pollution… around the world, 1 million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute! The initiative is taking place on Tuesday 5th June and we are all encouraged to come…