biodiversity

9thApril 2024

Mini biodiversity lesson: Build a Pond with FrogLife

09.04.24|Categories: Resources|Tags: , , , |

Keep Scotland Beautiful share a series of biodiversity live lessons. These shorter sessions for your class or Eco-Committee featuring the work of experts and organisations, and how to support biodiversity.  These are designed with upper primary in mind but are suitable for all ages. This pond session is led by [...]

13thMarch 2024

Tiny Forest news hot off the press

13.03.24|Categories: Research, Resources|Tags: , , , , |

The  latest Tiny Forest Monitoring Report from Earthwatch is out now. Read about the environmental and social benefits that a Tiny Forest can bring to urban communities between the first and third growing season. Key findings include the fact that rainwater is absorbed up to 65% faster inside three-year-old forests [...]

18thJanuary 2024

Biodiversity Action programme for secondary pupils now available on SCQF at level 4

18.01.24|Categories: Resources, Training|Tags: , , , , |

This SCQF level 4 course will support young people to develop their knowledge of key biodiversity concepts on how the natural world works and how we are dependent on its healthy functioning. It will build awareness of what positive action they might take to address the causes of biodiversity loss [...]

28thNovember 2023

Our Beautiful wild – voices of young people

28.11.23|Categories: Resources|Tags: , , , , |

RSPB Scotland have shared the online premiere of Our Beautiful Wild, a new Save Our Wild Isles film made by young people for young people (from Scotland and across the UK).  Watch the trailer here. The inspiring and powerful 20-minute film showcases the actions young nature-savers are taking and their [...]