Let’s make nature relevant for all cultures
The Children & Nature Network latest bulletin reminds us all of the importance of cultural relevancy and understanding when engaging communities with nature. They share papers in their research library on how different people, including children, engage with nature in different places.
Socioeconomic inequality in Scottish children’s exposure to and use of natural space and private gardens, measured by GPS
MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow have shared this study. It has been published in Landscape and Urban Planning (July 2022). The study describes ‘real’ use of natural spaces (which includes local greenspace) and private gardens within neighbourhoods. It found that 15% of children’s time outdoors, [...]
My Forest School Journey
The Forest School Association shares this blog post (7 July 2022) by a Forest School practitioner. She provides insights on the benefits of Forest School from her perspective as a neurodivergent person.
Funding for youth projects
A new fund worth £15,000 has been established to support projects that promote young people’s connection to nature and community, and inspire environmental awareness to address biodiversity loss and climate change. The Cairngorms Youth Local Action Group (Youth LAG), a sub group of the Cairngorms Trust, is responsible for the [...]
The Extraordinary Work of Black Environmentalists
Keep Scotland Beautiful have shared this highlight by The Carbon Literacy Project. It shares some inspiring stories of Black environmentalists throughout history.
Positive Imaginings: cultivating environmental citizens
Rowanbank Environmental Arts & Education commissioned ethnographic research with children aged 9 to 11, in May 2021. These children live in areas of multiple deprivation in Edinburgh, Scotland. Two Primary 6 groups learned about climate change and the natural world, across five weeks of outdoor workshops held in a local [...]
The importance of connecting to the land for refugees
Listen to this Radio Scotland Scotland Outdoors programme (broadcast 10 February 2021), where Mark and Euan share a conversation with UNESCO Chair for Integration Alison Phipps of Glasgow University.
Can forest schools help heal refugee children?
This article in the Guardian (9 May 2021) shares how one outdoor school is reconnecting disadvantaged 10-year-olds with nature and a sense of freedom.
