Pollinator Map of Scotland
The Pollinator Map of Scotland provides planners, developers and others with a quick and easy way to identify, at Scotland or local authority scale, where there is most scope for improvement or extending habitat for pollinators. This has been shared in the latest newsletter in the series of Planning for [...]
New digital support for learning outdoors launched for schools
Teachers and pupils across Scotland are being invited to join a national journey of nature discovery, as an "exciting" new digital support for learning outdoors is announced. Read this article in The Herald (21 November 2024)
Nature Discovery Map launches for Scottish schools!
NatureScot have announced (21 November 2024) that teachers and pupils across Scotland are being invited to join a national journey of nature discovery, as an exciting new digital support for learning outdoors is announced.
National Education Nature Park is one! Take part in webinars to celebrate and plan.
The National Education Nature Park was launched in Spring 2023. This ambitious programme aims to empower children and young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature’s future. The NBN Trust is a partner in the project in relation to collecting, collating and sharing biodiversity data. [...]
Equity mapping: young children & nature
Cities Connecting Children to Nature (CCCN) and other US partners describe nature equity maps which are used to depict how natural green space appears in a city relative to key demographic, economic, and social vulnerability data. CCCN cities use these maps to prioritize park and natural spaces programming, renovation and [...]
New maps show how the climate is changing in each UK constituency
This article in The Conversation (1 July, 2024) shares a series of maps that show both how the climate has changed over the past two generations in each constituency, and how it will change over the next decade. These maps consider changes in rainfall and hottest days across several parameters and [...]
University of Edinburgh explores learning in the outdoors
Take a look at this great web based resource developed by Edinburgh Earth Initiative at the University of Edinburgh: Integrating nature based and outdoor learning in HE Discover ways of conceptualising this type of learning, and practical guidelines, site details, and resources to enable educators to transform where and how [...]
How can we find nearby nature? Mapping access to nature across the UK
In England, this Wildlife and Countryside Link report explores the scale of the problem and the challenges and opportunities that the UK Government faces in aiming to meet its commitment for all households to be within 15 minutes-walk of nature. In Scotland, the Programme for Government 2020 commits the Scottish Government [...]