Environment

11 Nov How will Climate Change affect Guernsey?

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Food and EssentialsClimate change will bring more frequent, more extreme storms. As an island, Guernsey is dependent on both forms of transport to bring in essential supplies such as food. When the boats and the planes can't get in and out, then the shelves the...

10 Nov November and the pollinator patch still flowering

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08 Nov Day 2 COP27

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COP27 Presidency launches Adaptation Agenda to build climate resilience for 4 billion by 2030 In the Fulani village of Hore Mondji, in southern Mauritania, a women's cooperative uses solar energy to operate the borehole that supplies water to the market garden. A project piloted by UNICEF...

30 Oct Guernsey Conservation Volunteers

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The Guernsey Conservation Volunteers are a group of people who meet regularly to do hands-on conservation work outdoors on the island of Guernsey. Over the past month the volunteers have cleared bramble, and removed the invasive species sour fig, and cape ivy. Sour Fig (Carpobrotus edulis)FactsCommon...

24 Oct Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival 2022

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Click on the image to take you to the homepage for this festival This festival took place in October 2022. Guernsey was represented by two talks:1. Explaining how to find your school carbon footprint by school pupils - (apologies this video will be not be available until...

24 Oct The greatest threat to our planet is APATHY

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October FOCUSClimate change is NOT coming - it is already here! David Attenborough said, "The greatest threat to our planet is apathy." Maybe these short videos will inspire you to take action, to join organisations who are trying to make a different with nature or more simply...

07 Oct Pollinator Patch

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01 Oct Animals brought back from extinction

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A mass extinction is a short period of geological time in which a high percentage of biodiversity, or distinct species—bacteria, fungi, plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates—dies out. In this definition, it’s important to note that, in geological time, a ‘short’ period can span...

17 Sep Government House, Guernsey. Celebration and commemoration trees

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Government House, Guernsey is 10 acres of elegant parkland and landscaped gardens. There are over 150 mature trees of all varieties including 2 planted by Queen Elizabeth II during her visits in 1989 and 2001, and a number planted to commemorate other Royal visits. The grounds also...

01 Sep Focus on insects

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INSECT: a small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings.One million insects are known but scientists think that there could be up to 10 million on the planet. Some will go extinct before we even know they exist....