Somerset Bluebells An evening walk in Somerset leads us to a woodland we’ve never visited before. It’s pungent with Bear’s Garlic and rippling with purple Bluebells. We stay until the last light of the setting sun leaves the tops of the trees. This time of year is magnificent.
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Nurturing the Next Generation of Conservationists: New Internship Program at Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge The National Wildlife Refuge Association is excited to announce a
groundbreaking partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and
Catawba College, establishing a unique internship program at the
breathtaking Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. This
collaboration embodies a shared commitment to cultivating the next
generation of conservation leaders and safeguarding the future of our
natural treasures.
https://www.refugeassociation.....org/news/2024/4/30/c

Lesser Spotted in name and nature There’s a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in my local woods. They’re tiny and now is the best time of year to spot them. As soon as the leaves are out they will be hidden from view by a single leaf. This female has been entertaining crowds of photographers. Wearing camouflage and …
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The weed dance Okay, so it’s sticks and not weed, but I didn’t give the weed dance its name. Here’s my favourite pair of Great Crested Grebes displaying with gusto at Chard Reservoir. The effort required to keep yourself out of the water and completely vertical means the dance is brief, but it …
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ReCircle: Young Entrepreneurs Creating a Circular Economy with Waste "But just when we were launching, there was this massive fire that took place at the Deonar dump site. You know, there's this iconic image that NASA took from space where, you know, you could see that fire burning even from space. And it went on for a few weeks in fact. ... The second thing that drove me to, you know, take that leap of faith and see how big this problem is and think that we need to work towards a solution was that we worked with an NGO called Apnalaya that works in the Deonar dump sites, in the neighbourhoods running the dump site. And they gave us a very astonishing fact that you know, that the average life expectancy of people that just live around the periphery of the dump site. These are again, not the people that work in the dump site, but only live in the slum area next to it was 38 years of age and, and that was, that was an eye-opening,  uh, you know, number to me and it helped me realise that, you know if this is impacting the people just living around the downside, how soon is it going to start impacting the rest of the rest of the city as well as the rest of the country? This story is not just about Deonar dumpsite in Mumbai, but this is pretty much made with the Ghazipur dump site in Delhi. May be, you know, Bangalore, maybe even Kolkata is pretty much the same city, same story across all cities across India. "
https://earthymatters.blog/202....4/05/01/recircle-you