Our children are spending 20 hours a week staring at screens, writes Sandra Thompson. High time to get them outside with the mud, bugs, flowers and slime ...
… Reconnecting children with our wonderful world Sandra … Education Natural World bugstorey-2.png Our children are spending 20 hours a week staring … the mud, bugs, flowers and slime ... With children spending an average of almost 14 …
A new book aims to get children off their mobile phones and back where they belong: in the great outdoors. It's packed with well thought-out, purposeful activities to get children interacting with nature, but Martin Spray wonders: is it all trying too hard? Has the essential nature of 'play' somehow been forgotten?
… Books mud-pies-cut.jpg A new book aims to get children off their mobile phones and back … thought-out, purposeful activities to get children interacting with nature, but Martin … 'roaming radius' has all but vanished. Our children are close to being obligate …
The acclaimed buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh talks to the Ecologist about the loss of biodiversity and why human vulnerability is not something we should despair about
… schools and you can take care of the children of other couples then you don’t miss our children. So basing it on my own experience as … I have a lot. Even though I don’t have blood children, I feel I have a lot of children. …
The renowned primatologist and conservationist on the need for scientific empathy, the impact of economic development, and why children give her hope for the future
… the impact of economic development, and why children give her hope for the future Laura … hope. I think it's criminal not to give children hope because they are born with hope and we have to nurture that. Also children are brilliant at changing the …
Campaigners fear 'backward' step in pesticide regulation in UK after testing body scrapped as Government also confirms major budget cuts to Natural England and the Environment Agency
… Pesticide residue exposure linked to ADHD in children Parents urged to wash fruits and … used pesticides may contribute to ADHD in children NEWS 'Unnecessary' weedkillers could … in UK schools Survey finds that school children are being exposed to harmful …
Daniel Raven-Ellison is a man with a big idea - making London the world's first 'National Park City' to safeguard, and promote the enjoyment of London's myriad natural treasures, writes Lucy Anna Scott. Is he bonkers? Probably. But with a growing band of backers getting behind his bold vision, who cares?
… volunteers and develop green space for our children. Why shouldn't London become a … " Guerrilla Geography " excursions challenge children and adults to see place as more than … costs £900m. And one in five of the capital's children is overweight." Greenery protects the …
Born into the wealthy family that founded the Roche pharmaceutical and chemical giant, Luc Hoffman turned his back on the comforts of wealth at an early age, writes James Breiding, and dedicated his life, and his money, to conservation. We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to this man of few words, encyclopedic knowledge, decisive action and unswerving commitment.
… giving him; the mothers who picked up their children at school ingratiating him and trying … Daria lived in a farmhouse and raised their children there. Hoffmann spoke Swiss-German to his four children (and French or English at work) but …
Across Africa, the traditional idea of safari parks is getting an overhaul - and where once locals were excluded, models with community involvement are finding long-term success
… their [the community’s] land. They and their children will determine what happens to it.’ … improve education for primary school age children and encouraging and supporting … company-run programmes such as Wilderness’ Children in the Wilderness foundation, which …
If you split post-operative patients into two groups, giving one a view of trees and the other a view of a brick wall, the group that was exposed to the trees will need fewer painkillers, develop fewer complications and will
check themselves out of hospital more quickly than the group with the urban view. Isn't it time to accept that some of the distress we currently feel is tied to the world beyond the consulting room, to this planet of ours that's
become so stripped and bare?
… low. One US study found depression rates for children to be hovering between seven and 14 … health. His work - with autistic children, the elderly, and patients suffering … especially concerned about the huge number of children being raised without rich contact …
Sugar can be produced from both sugar beet and sugarcane. Sugarcane production is of particular concern in terms of environmental degradation and human rights abuses, reports William McLennan
… unsuitable for other groups. Child Labour Children have been found to be working on … across the globe, cases range from young children helping their parents to teenagers working fulltime harvesting cane. Children as young as 9-13 years old were found …
As the Digital Schoolhouse programme starts a national roll out to schools across the UK, scientists warn that digital disconnect can mean caring less - for each other and the environment. LAURA BRIGGS reports.
… time spent on devices impacts negatively on children and young people and as your reliance … face perception in heavy Internet users. "Children's ability to read face perception has … country, as a direct response to digital and children now have to embrace technology far …
Unilever denies some female employees at its Rainforest Alliance-certified tea plantation in Kenya are subjected to sexual harassment. But Dutch research outfit SOMO paints a very different picture. Verity Largo and Andrew Wasley report
… Both in their late forties, they have seven children to look after – they inherited three … of HIV – all crammed into this space. The children sleep on a mat in one room, the … that make it possible for women to work round children’s school days, and to run the house …
Calling the natural world 'it' absolves us of moral responsibility and opens the door to exploitation, writes Robin Wall Kimmerer. To make our kinship with all life on Earth a life-affirming daily reality, we need a new pronoun for our fellow beings.
… to reclaim what was washed from the mouths of children in the Indian Boarding Schools. Children like my grandfather. So I'm paying a …
To live sustainably we must learn to live with wildlife, Patrick Barkham argues in his book Badgerlands. To do this we have much to learn from our ancestors - but we must also discard their barbaric practices and outrageous myths that, even today, some are so keen to perpetuate.
… among probably the last generation of young children who could roam free in the … And he had a much-loved grandmother that many children would wish for - Jane Ratcliffe , a …
In an exclusive extract from Wild Swimming, author Daniel Start looks back at his best-ever wild dips
… a willow tree and a mother and her three children paddling and shrieking in cold glee. … We were two families and a gang of five children. I was the youngest and would trail … in Symonds Yat has been giving inner city children wild experiences for over 50 years. …
A unique, all female anti-poaching unit has transformed the conservation picture in South Africa's Kruger National Park, writes Anneka Svenska. In just three years the Black Mambas have cut poaching by more than 75%, removed over 1,000 snares, and become role models for local youth. And this weekend they arrive in the UK to collect Helping Rhinos' 'Innovation in Conservation' Award.
… it is still early, around 9.30am, and we see children eating lunch. Black Mamba education … explains that this is often the only meal the children get a day, as they come from such … Programme is really fun, uplifting and the children learn in English. Black Mambas …
New research encouraging gardeners to increase bumblebee populations by planting flowers could be undermined by the use of weedkillers and pesticides, Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) warns
… Pesticide residue exposure linked to ADHD in children Parents urged to wash fruits and … used pesticides may contribute to ADHD in children NEWS Renewed call for pesticide ban …
Are human rights separable from the wider rights of other living beings, the environment and the Universe? Gabriel Moran finds that humans need to re-assert their central position in the world and build an encompassing moral responsibility.
… superiority' is not good news for women, children, nonhuman animals, and the physical … rights are an assertion about men, women and children as the animal with the widest …
Following our exclusive investigation, Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the trade
… by hand by migrant workers – many of them children. Has this always been a problem or is … of vulnerable migrant workers – many of them children – dismantle these huge structures by …
Kara Moses reports on a group of 10-year-olds from Holly Trees Primary School who - by fundraising for Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership - have helped secure the future of a rare Namibian plant that was virtually extinct in the wild
… How Essex schoolchildren help save endangered species through … Namibian plant. Thanks to Pringle and the children at Holly Trees Primary School, Essex, … the world from man's destruction', the children were keen on doing something that …
The promise that cloning will be a boon to conservation is, says Malcolm Tait, a complete cop-out
… a new challenge to medical and human ethics – children’s gender genetically manipulated in … destruction: yes, but I need my car to get my children to school. The long-term prospects …
On international women's day, a remarkable lady fighting to maintain the ancient traditions, local knowledge and sacred sites of one of South Africa's last indigenous clans talks to the Ecologist
… everybody a space - men have their own space, children have their own space, women have … 74 when I was born, and I'm the 11th of 24 children. My father gave me the name of … from the elders before they die, then future children will be staying on the edge not …
At times awkwardly funny, informative and charming, Marianne Taylor's book is an easy first step into British natural history
… be a simplified account of nature written for children. However, a few distinctly British … fresh and excited way to look around us, with children’s eyes. Perhaps a particular topic …
'We all live in Khimki Forest' has become the rallying cry of a local forest defense campaign. Goldman Prize winner Evgenia Chirikova describes what it's like to be green in Russia the why a culture of impunity and corruption risks destroying the country's natural heritage
… report about me, saying I neglect my children, that I beat them and I don't feed … scary because it meant that I could lose my children and be in prison for assault. But I … system continues in about 10 years or so our children will have to live in a monstrous …