Finding Nature News: Nature play for gender equity
Check out this lead story in the Children and Nature Network March bulletin. Director of Green Schoolyards and Communities Priya Cook takes a close look at how incorporating natural elements into schoolyard design can help encourage girls to get active, and the accompanying Stat Sheet.
The Shapeshifting Hares of the Gàidhealtachd
In this Scotland’s Nature blog post (26 March 2024), also available in Gaelic, Roddy Maclean considers the place of the native hare in Gaelic folklore and landscape.
Charity’s nature-based scheme helping local youngsters back into education
This article from the Greenock Telegraph (1 April 2024) describes how Barnardo’s Scotland has been running its ‘B-Wild’ project in eight localities, including Inverclyde, since 2020. The initiative allows young people to get out and about in nature and explore what the world has to offer. More than 800 children and [...]
Secondary school pupils on LfS journey with Cairngorms 2030
Learning for Sustainability Scotland (LfSS ) have shared the presentations from the LfS Leadership Group meeting in March in their April bulletin. This includes ‘Cairngorms 2030 and secondary school pupils’. In this video, Tania Alliod from the Cairngorms National Park Authority shares more about their collaborative work with local secondary [...]
Are we ever too old to play?
Play Scotland have shared this thoughtful blog by Fiona Kirk (27 February 2024).
Women in STEM – Peatland ACTION leads the way
NatureScot (8 March 2024) celebrated International Women’s Day with some good news! This post shares the fact that 50% of the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) focussed jobs at NatureScot Peatland ACTION are currently held by women. This bucks the UK statistics, where currently less than 30% of these kinds [...]
