On 26th and 27th August impACT was at William De Ferrers School. The days involved litter picking, pruning shrubs and trees to open up paths, cutting grass to make a habitat for wildlife, building a brash pile in wooded area, planting of extra hedgerow, surveyed and drew designs for new wild life area in the school and made and put up bat boxes.
Throughout the two days a big impACT was made as the young people enjoyed the various tasks that were provided because as well as having an enjoyable two days they knew that there tasks were making an impACT for w
The increasingly popular First News for young minds is showing its young audience how they can make a difference to their environment and protect the larger scale world environment by doing so.
Articles cover growing your own vegetables and fruit such as beans, green schools projects, young unsung green hero’s and animal stories such as zoo escapees or rare species. Even the typeface used in the green section is eco friendly- it is called ecofont and has dots within the writing as this uses less ink!
<!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:”"; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –> The IUCN analysis, which is published every four years, comes just before the deadline governments set themselves to evaluate how successful they were in achieving the 2010 target to reduce biodiversity loss. The IUCN report, Wildlife in a Changing World, shows the 2010 target will not be met.
“When governments take action to reduce biodiversity loss there are some conservation successes, but we are still a long way from reversing the trend,” says Jean-Christophe Vié, Deputy Head of IUCN’s Species Programme and senior editor of the publication. “It’s time to recognize that nature is the largest company on Earth working for the benefit of 100 percent of humankind – and it’s doing it for free. Governments should put as much effort, if not more, into saving nature as they do into saving economic and financial sectors.”
The report analyses 44,838 species on the IUCN Red List and presents results by groups of species, geographical regions, and different habitats, such as marine, freshwater and terrestrial.
It shows 869 species are Extinct or Extinct the Wild and this figure rises to 1,159 if the 290 Critically Endangered species tagged as Possibly Extinct are included. Overall, a minimum of 16,928 species are threatened with extinction. Considering that only 2.7 percent of the 1.8 million described species have been analyzed, this number is a gross underestimate, but it does provide a useful snapshot of what is happening to all forms of life on Earth.
The BBC runs an annual competition based upon the stunning views in the UK that few know of. Visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8144682.stm to read about some of the best views in the UK and enter the competition by emailing your pictures to yourpics@bbc.co.uk with unsung views as the subject title. It is a good read and entering is always worth a try!
