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"Action" is an essential ingredient
of our educational work. It's great if we can help people to understand
and appreciate the natural world, but our aim must also be to take things
a stage further - to encourage people to take action to conserve and improve
it.
There is a role for every volunteer
and member of staff in providing the necessary activities and experiences,
and we need to make these available to everyone regardless of age, ability
and background. Wildlife will only have a future if people as a whole
value it and see that what they do in their daily lives can affect it
for better or worse.
The spring issue of our junior magazine,
Pawprint, includes a poster guide, based on The Wildlife Trusts' national
ten-point Conservation Plan, to some of the ways in which we can all do
something for wildlife. Here are just a few simple ideas for action:
1. Report wildlife sightings
2. Garden for wildlife
3. Buy environmentally friendly
food
4. Don't waste water
5. Collect rubbish from a beach
6. Write to your MP
7. Attend an educational event
8. Plant a tree
9. Dig a pond
10. Find out about the Cornwall Biodiversity
Initiative
Education of children is just one part
of our awareness-raising work but it's crucially important. A good way
of supporting our efforts is to take out Fox Club or Wildlife Watch membership
for a child (any child will do!). Go along to the events (they are all
family rather than junior activities), learn as much as you can about
wildlife and the problems it faces, then tell others. The more people
know about the issues, the more likely it is that action will be taken.
We have a bumper programme of family
events for spring and summer, including activities with the Blue Reef
Aquarium, Rag and Bone 2000, Seaquest and others to encourage action for
the marine environment - see the diary. Come along and help us make a
difference for wildlife. Mark Nicholson
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Youngsters from our German
twin organisation, NABU, visited us for a week in
August. We chose an aquatic theme for our joint activities, reflecting our shared dependence on this natural resource and our shared concern for the wildlife associated with it. Photo: Stuart Hutchings
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The Blue Reef Aquarium (formerly
Newquay Sea Life Aquarium) will
join us in presenting Sea Life in the City, in Victoria Gardens, Truro, every Tuesday in August. Photo: Blue Reef Aquarium
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Marine life and oil pollution
have been major topics for media
publicity generated by the Trust in the last year. This week-old pup , smeared with oil, helped draw attention to the issue. Look out for a forthcoming Trust campaign which will allow you to join us in calling for changes in the law of the sea to make oil tankers safer in their construction and operation. Photo: Stephen Westcott
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