Learn From NatureKids
Oxford kids give birds a helping hand … with nest boxes BUT is it worth the effort?
A good news story for National Bird Box Week and celebrated by child and nature-friendly groups such as NAEE_UK, with children getting hands-on in their local area. But should we bother to give nature a ‘helping hand’ – or not interfere and leave birds to fend for themselves? Reality is, we humans have already ‘interfered’ in and [...]
City kids missing out on nature
A growing disconnection between city children and nature threatens disastrous consequences for the State’s environment, one of WA’s top scientists has warned. Follow me at http://environmentaleducationuk.wordpress.com/, http://twitter.com/#!/ChildrenNature and http://twitter.com/#!/LearnFromNature Ric How, a senior curator at the WA Museum, said children in urban environments were becoming oblivious to the natural world. Dr How, who is also an adjunct professor [...]
Sad laws …. Treehouse Removal Could Threaten Kids’ Health
Follow at http://twitter.com/#!/LearnFromNature , http://twitter.com/#!/ChildrenNature , http://twitter.com/#!/search/NAEE_UK A father in Fairfax County, where the National Wildlife Federation is headquartered, recently received word that the treehouse he built for his sons, ages 9 and11, violated county zoning laws and would have to come down. Seems the$1,400 tree house, nice enough for a feature in House Beautiful, required a building variance because it was [...]
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